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#816866 - 01/21/13 08:54 PM I think I'm ready for coyotes. *****
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Registered: 05/03/01
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Loc: McCleary, WA
Gloomy day in McCleary. Didn't want to sit in the house, so I grabbed 6 rifles, my target stand, and a few other items and headed out to sight things in.

Set up at 100 yards. Fired three rounds from my match grade AR, 55gr Nosler ballistic tips I got from Fishhead5 that I hand loaded.


Adjusted the sights as I didn't want to shoot low.


Just to show you the scale, I put my caliper on the group.

Two "one-ish" hole 3 shot groups, 0.585" apart.

Found the sun, too!

Once I got up above the clouds it was an awesome sunny day. Not quite t-shirt weather, but I was comfortable in a sweatshirt.

Watch out yotes. It's calving season, and someone is ready.
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#816878 - 01/21/13 09:50 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Dogfish]
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Loc: Vancouver, WA
Nice shooting DF.
Mr. Yote would do well to avoid your place.
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#816960 - 01/22/13 12:10 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Direct-Drive]
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Free hand and iron sights?

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#816980 - 01/22/13 02:05 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: ]
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Loc: McCleary, WA
Old card table and a pile of old towels for my shooting bench, and a folding chair. Not a rock solid platform, but it gets the job done for sighting in.

Nowhere near that good offhand, but I can tip over a running deer or elk with my other rifles.
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#816988 - 01/22/13 02:58 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Dogfish]
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Registered: 04/28/10
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Loc: Adna
Andy, I don't think you will see 2 many other people hunting coyotes in the central Columbia Basin this year. It's just that not 2 many people get the offer & opportunity.
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#817010 - 01/22/13 05:27 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: ]
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Kind offer. Rounding folks up as I type. Just picked up my latest stamp.


It goes on this.
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#817014 - 01/22/13 05:47 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Dogfish]
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Loc: Adna
Mission orders for Harbor Seal Team Six. Operation Crab Creek Coyotes... Go call them in to within 100 meters or closer and kill them, dead in their tracks. Shoot the quiet 10-22 around the campfire. Then for kicks, throw a box af .22's into fire and see who bolts first. The land is just tooooo big for a .22 L.R to be effective.
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#817023 - 01/22/13 06:42 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: ]
redhook
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Red, rabbit squeal calls can work really well too.. im obviously not one to tell any of you how to hunt, but some advice, when calling Coyotes, pay attention... they will be right on top of you before you know it...

i used to thump Coyotes for farmers near Vantage and Frenchman Hills that were killing their livestock and such, they in return would let my buddy hunt pheasants on their corn field areas... the Remy 700 dispatched them quickly, but kinda brutal with the 7mm Rem Mag with Barnes 150 grain TSX HPs... some times i would shoot fac Remington Core Lokt rounds, but my buddys reload skills were good, so we just went with the Barnes TSX's, not sure what powder he used, but it worked, and extremely well...

eventually i stopped doing it, i just didnt enjoy killing something for nothing, and havent shot an animal since...

nice shooting DF, makes me miss my AR even more...

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#817024 - 01/22/13 06:45 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: ]
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Loc: Adna
RD...I was really into hunting coyotes for two decades. Thus all of the old land owner contacts that I have.

Back then all we had was some funky battery operated cassette player that sucked big time when it was windy. Now days they have all kinda remote calls and speakers with a thousand different AID (animall in distress) calls at the touch of your finger. It seems sort unfair. Dang, a wireless to your remote speaker and a robo rabbit pulsing around like the batt powered robo wings the waterfowl guys use? Those poor devils don't stand a chance.

Back then, this time of year was always the best. A canine puppies yelping call or some poor other critter in distress would work. Do not over use a call if it is not showing resullts. Move around, be stealty as you can because the coyotes are not stupid. Look for cows this time of year. Contact the guys who are tending the cows and ask about permission to hunt.

Stay back with your vehicle from the area you want to call int. Now walk into your calling area, preferably on the rimrock of a vast canyon. Once there, sit down and listen for the birds and whatever else is around to settle down and start chirping again.....Then turn on your predator call. If you see them coming, remain still as they will try to wind you. Let them get close. The look in their eyes as they turn from predator to prey can be seen up close as you flick the safety forward on your rifle...Point is....let them get close before you give away you position.
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#817034 - 01/22/13 07:39 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: ]
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Registered: 04/28/10
Posts: 319
Loc: Adna
Who say technology is a bad thing? Not me when it comes to varmints.
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#817041 - 01/22/13 08:01 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Black Bart]
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Loc: McCleary, WA
I have mouth calls and an old 2 deck boombox I hot wired. 100 yards of 2 strand wire, and a megaphone speaker. Set the call about 30-40 yards down and to the side. Wait.

We also have at least one shotgun ready. Bringing the 10ga with Hevishot. Whump, yip.
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#817048 - 01/22/13 08:14 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Dogfish]
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Loc: Vancouver, WA
I've found it's sometimes hard to keep from gigglin' with all the various sounds effects going off.


smile

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#817062 - 01/22/13 08:46 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: ]
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Loc: Vancouver, WA
Originally Posted By: 2MANY
Siwwey wabbit...............
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#817069 - 01/22/13 09:02 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Dogfish]
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Registered: 04/28/10
Posts: 319
Loc: Adna
Geebuzz...a ten gauge shotgun...Not like I ever had one..ok, two... just never used one of them on winter coyotes.

Andy, I'd say that if Harbor Seal Team Six can get Art to tag along, keping all the ATV's gased up and ready, then you should really consider having an eye doctor in the field just in case you happen put your eye out with that thing.
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#817105 - 01/22/13 11:12 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Black Bart]
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Registered: 05/03/01
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Loc: McCleary, WA
A tightly choked 10ga at 10 yards really messes up anything.
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#817123 - 01/22/13 11:49 PM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Dogfish]
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Posts: 8060
Loc: Vancouver, WA
Here's a recent account of a guy's first called-in cougar from the other site.
" Randy says at this time the cougar uses some type of cougar lingo. I don't remember cause I am shaking so bad..."
http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=439602&
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#817134 - 01/23/13 12:17 AM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Dogfish]
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Registered: 04/29/06
Posts: 1740
Loc: Offshore
I sadly sold my song dog swatter....

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#817158 - 01/23/13 01:23 AM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Driftin']
Dogfish Offline
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Registered: 05/03/01
Posts: 10979
Loc: McCleary, WA
Anything from a .22LR or .17 HMR on up is a swatter. Don't expect much hide on a yote hit with a .300 win mag and a 150g ballistic tip.
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#817159 - 01/23/13 01:39 AM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: Dogfish]
redhook
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there was a TON of damage with my 7mm.. especially in the 300 yard range, longest was 712 lasered after a 600+ yard miss, and it blew the top of its skull off... the 100 yard range was just blow through, massive damage but not near as much as at 2-300 yards, it honestly grossed me out, and is one of the main reasons i quit doing it... it wasnt "hunting" tho, as the other animals are almost bait, even caged.... stupid dogs would come in broad daylight, and most of em didnt even hear the crack...

except that one... i missed him the first shot, and he bolted away and at an angle, then it stopped, and looked at me... dead at me... and i whapped it, and that was the last one... i can still remember looking down the scope and its fvckin wierd...

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#817187 - 01/23/13 11:15 AM Re: I think I'm ready for coyotes. [Re: ]
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Loc: McCleary, WA
Predator control is about one thing, killing. There is no worrying about saving meat, just put the animal down as quick as possible, and don't miss and end up educating a coyote.
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