Hunting & Fishing Let’s start a coyote thread.
- Thread starter Tugboater
- Start date
Shot this one in a freshly melted corn field and found it laying completely submerged under water
That explains the toothy grin you have.
That was 108 Eld-m. I have been shooting 65gr berger Bt but I didn’t have any loaded up for that night.
A few we killed the last week of our Kansas night season. Killed two under 50 yards in some thick cover. Need to go back there with a shotgun in the daytime.
Chicken thief! The penalty should fit the crime.
She looks way heavy. Pups enroute.
I’ll keep chasing her until the penalty does fit the crime!
Yep, thinking you'll get at least 7 with one shot on that one!
Was there this morning from 4 AM till 630 nothing
You may need to set out some traps. Coyotes can be freaking smart.
What bullet are you shooting with your Valkyrie? I loaded some 88 and 75gr ELD-Ms when I first got mine. Never really got anything better than 1' groups, and I'd say they were more like 1.5" groups consistently. Didn't really use the rifle much until recently I read some guys having good results with lighter bullets. I loaded up some 60gr Vmaxs and I was pleasantly surprised. Tight 100 yard groups, almost like I got a whole new rifle!!
Sorry-just realized I responded to a 3 year old post........
That only happens to me on days that end in the letter 'y'.
All good brother! Glad to see the thread back to life!
All I ever used in mine was factory fodder! Shot the 75’s so good. I never had to hand load for it. Used the hornady black ammo.
This dude was poking around 238 yards below the house an hour ago. Realized that I had my one rifle still in the truck, but I had my 7 mag in the safe with 1 round in the mag left over from deer season.
The house blocked the wind, so I didn't make a good call sitting at the patio table. Hard quartering to with a bit of downhill. Missed the spine/neck junction by 2-3 inches, but ran the bullet through him and out his ass. Basically everything from the base of the pecker to the bottom of the asshole was removed.
Flopped for a little bit and made it 20 yards, leaving 10-12 pools of blood in the process.
7 RM, 150gr ELD-X at 3,005 FPS MV.
The house blocked the wind, so I didn't make a good call sitting at the patio table. Hard quartering to with a bit of downhill. Missed the spine/neck junction by 2-3 inches, but ran the bullet through him and out his ass. Basically everything from the base of the pecker to the bottom of the asshole was removed.
Flopped for a little bit and made it 20 yards, leaving 10-12 pools of blood in the process.
7 RM, 150gr ELD-X at 3,005 FPS MV.
After a few dry trips I got to try out the 77gr TMK. First impression is they it worked better than the OTM version. No spinning, no running, he just dropped DRT. Need more examples to make a good verdict though.
So for my experienced guys out there. I am still struggling on how to get more response. I moved into a new area where they haven’t been pressured. Was surprised we didn’t have more show up.
My sequence looked like this on the Foxpro X24 at about volume 18-20.
- male coyote howls
- 3 min wait (no response)
- coyote group yips/howls
- 3 min wait (no response)
- fawn in distress 2 min
- 2 min wait (no response)
- fawn in distress 2 min
- 4 min wait (no response)
- coyote howls
- 3 min wait (no response)
- rabbit in distress (loud, volume 28)
- 1 coyote came running in at a fast pace
I was surprised that we never heard a response. The rabbit was a last ditch effort before we moved which paid off. However, this same sequence at 3 other stands got nothing.
Any thoughts on things to try? It was nice to get the one but that’s one in the last 4 trips.
So for my experienced guys out there. I am still struggling on how to get more response. I moved into a new area where they haven’t been pressured. Was surprised we didn’t have more show up.
My sequence looked like this on the Foxpro X24 at about volume 18-20.
- male coyote howls
- 3 min wait (no response)
- coyote group yips/howls
- 3 min wait (no response)
- fawn in distress 2 min
- 2 min wait (no response)
- fawn in distress 2 min
- 4 min wait (no response)
- coyote howls
- 3 min wait (no response)
- rabbit in distress (loud, volume 28)
- 1 coyote came running in at a fast pace
I was surprised that we never heard a response. The rabbit was a last ditch effort before we moved which paid off. However, this same sequence at 3 other stands got nothing.
Any thoughts on things to try? It was nice to get the one but that’s one in the last 4 trips.
My girls came running into my bedroom a couple hours ago yelling that there was a coyote below the house in one of the pastures.
Walked my happy ass down there, not expecting to see anything, but caught her out in a hay meadow at about 300 yards as she was headed towards some trees.
Started lip squeaking as she hit the trees, and got to a knee (I was in a tactical red t-shirt and jeans). Amazingly, 2 minutes later she squirted out in the tall grass just in front of me - looking for the squeaking.
Took a kneeling shot at the neck/shoulder junction at 82 yards. I couldn't see any farther down due to the grass.
The 130gr ELD-M left no proof of entrance...but left about a 1.5"x1" exit that I bet you could fit a racquetball in the hole under. It threw hair everywhere too.
I'll hold my opinions on this bullet until I get a few more under my belt at further ranges. So far though, it did whatever I could have hoped for.
Walked my happy ass down there, not expecting to see anything, but caught her out in a hay meadow at about 300 yards as she was headed towards some trees.
Started lip squeaking as she hit the trees, and got to a knee (I was in a tactical red t-shirt and jeans). Amazingly, 2 minutes later she squirted out in the tall grass just in front of me - looking for the squeaking.
Took a kneeling shot at the neck/shoulder junction at 82 yards. I couldn't see any farther down due to the grass.
The 130gr ELD-M left no proof of entrance...but left about a 1.5"x1" exit that I bet you could fit a racquetball in the hole under. It threw hair everywhere too.
I'll hold my opinions on this bullet until I get a few more under my belt at further ranges. So far though, it did whatever I could have hoped for.
Not a yote. But... i couldn't resist posting a pic of him.
I got one this afternoon. About 100 yards with my HBAR. 53 gr vmax.
That's a sexy rifle. To quote Jim Carrey in "Dumb and Dumber," "I like it a lot."
I got this one from my tractor while working dry land wheat corners.
Sweet! Bought a marlin 17v years ago when they first came out. Been a favorite over the years. Never killed anything yote size with it though. Tons of other varmints.
Should still be pups. Family bust up hasn't happened yet, (for most of them). You've got pups out beginning to hunt in small groups close to the dens now. I'd say locate dens at night, get close, try adult howls, pup sounds, prey and pup distress until you find out what they like. But, you'll have to get close to a den. Within 500y or so.
Head on shot slightly quartering away with a 212gr ELDX.
Launched from a prc ? I loaded some for my winmag and shot them out to a thousand but I haven't haven't put them on game yet. They were just shy of 2900fps.
Did you have to track him far,,, you just barely nicked him,,, practice, practice, practice….
Very small (~20lb) female, that I'm guessing was one of last-years pups (or she's huge for being 4 months old).
Shot her off of my grill on my back porch. Wife's rose bushes are way too darn tall to do much of anything else.
She was in some Texas Goatweed where I'd dumped out some rib juice the other day. I had a decent idea of the range being a touch less than 200, so I just dialed .4 and took a hard quartering away shot at the spine.
I didn't hear the impact, and I didn't recover in the scope quick enough to see her go down in the weeds. Thought for a moment that I could have missed her. Walked down there...nope.
^ That's actually the entrance wound side. Looks like the 130gr ELD-M just pancaked her. I saw no evidence of her having moved from the impact location.
Took the range after the fact...181 yards, so an impact velocity of about 2,445, and energy around 1,735 ft/lbs. Not exactly a long shot.
Here's another of the impact side. Actually got the bullet behind the lung and blew it BACK out towards the direction of the shot...impressive. not 212 ELD-X out of a PRC impressive, but pretty good for a little 6.5x47.
Here's the exit side. Not a whole lot to report about other than it left about a 1" x 1/2" exit after passing through the spine and scapula.
Obviously still a small sample size of two now, but the initial results have been good. I'm still wanting to see how well this bullet works at an impact velocity of 2,100 - 2,200 FPS (350 - 425 yards).
Shot her off of my grill on my back porch. Wife's rose bushes are way too darn tall to do much of anything else.
She was in some Texas Goatweed where I'd dumped out some rib juice the other day. I had a decent idea of the range being a touch less than 200, so I just dialed .4 and took a hard quartering away shot at the spine.
I didn't hear the impact, and I didn't recover in the scope quick enough to see her go down in the weeds. Thought for a moment that I could have missed her. Walked down there...nope.
^ That's actually the entrance wound side. Looks like the 130gr ELD-M just pancaked her. I saw no evidence of her having moved from the impact location.
Took the range after the fact...181 yards, so an impact velocity of about 2,445, and energy around 1,735 ft/lbs. Not exactly a long shot.
Here's another of the impact side. Actually got the bullet behind the lung and blew it BACK out towards the direction of the shot...impressive. not 212 ELD-X out of a PRC impressive, but pretty good for a little 6.5x47.
Here's the exit side. Not a whole lot to report about other than it left about a 1" x 1/2" exit after passing through the spine and scapula.
Obviously still a small sample size of two now, but the initial results have been good. I'm still wanting to see how well this bullet works at an impact velocity of 2,100 - 2,200 FPS (350 - 425 yards).
Last edited:
Here’s one I shot a couple years ago during deer season. 6.5CM at about 100 yards. Weighed 51 pounds, so I decided to make a full mount out of him.
First and only Coyote I’ve shot. Haven’t seen another one in the woods since.
That's a beast! Could you post a picture of the mount?
They are there. You just haven't seen them.
They are just waiting until their pack grows from the pups that he's sired. Then they are hoping that you will be overwhelmed and not able to cope with a target rich environment.
Two words: Thermal Vision.
Yeah, I’ll take one when I get to the house.
