Look away; bow purists
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Nice. Glad you had a good time.
Awesome.
Please come to Alabama and help out. :-)
Sounds like you need to do that more often, thick w/ yotes you are.
Well done Pat and Matt!! Come on up here to SD and kill as many as you like!
Bet the ranchers in Montana would love to have you. They have really big "dogs" out there.
Haha I saw the bunny avatar, read the thread title...and thought someone blasted a poor, helpless bunny with their "assault rifle"!
Nice job, guys! Can't beat a Baker's dozen of dead yotes !!!
Best of Luck, Jeff
So...when you run outa targets there...c'mon up to 'Sconnie.
Good for you, I would hunt coyotes any day with rifle.
Your son has more hair on his chin, than you have on your entire head.
Father/son good times made right there!!!
Mark
10 days of bow season left and we will be after them here.
When will the videos be posted? Good shooting.
.....look away......
So of course I had to look. I wish I could have four days like that ! But the incontrovertible truth is.....you live in commie land ! Who in hell ever heard of a season for coyotes ? Good job guys !
"Bow purists"? Noooo... not here! :)
Nice job fellas! That reminds me too, I need more .223 ammo.
Good shooting. I love dead coyotes.
Pat, what gun you shooting? Thick, heavy barrel. Does it make it that much more accurate? God Bless
Say hello to Matt! Glad you guys made the hunt!
Strong work guys! The deer thank you! Hunt
Right tool for the right job and an AR is the right tool for that job.
Not much more fun hunting than calling varmints. You guy really stacked em up! Congrats!
Do you ever call in any cats where you're hunting?
Way to go Pat! Predator calling is great winter fun and good for the deer herd.
OK, I'm a sucker for "look away...."
Great job. Looks like a ton of fun. Must be some good numbers in the area, hope it left a mark.....
What, no recurve? David A will be disappointed. :)
Very nice Pat! Shooting a bobcat with a bow is high on my list for sure. Quite a trophy!
I love seeing DEAD Yotes no matter how they go down.
Nice job. Winter coyote hunting, a great pastime.
I went up to my rancher friend's last week and busted a big ol doggie in a morning. There is so many coyotes he and other ranchers in the area hired an airplane gunner that will start the thinning process in Feb/Mar during the breeding season.
Long range shooting here....
Whoa Pat... What's with the assault rifle???
"That looks like a hoot! "
That looks flippin' cold...... =D
Very Cool
Do they have a bounty in Kansas on them like we do here?
Good luck, Robb
I wish we had a bounty on'em here in KS...thanks for thinning the "herd" Pat!
Nice work. That's a good bag of them nasty critters.
That looks like some great fun.
Pat you have too much knowledge about guns to be a bow "purist". Nice rig!!
Are you selling them to a fur buyer? Some of them look to have fantastic pelts!
Awsome! I hope that a few of those ba$tards are the ones that feasted on my buck a couple years back. Way to go boys!
Thanks for cleaning them up Pat. I shot this one Dec. 31, my 10th one with a bow. It was one of 5 that came in out of 3 packs that were howling. I might have to dig out the rifle and go looking for some more.
Hey Pat, how many yotes have you killed after the first shot? I'm wondering if a semi-auto is effective? On TV they almost never kill anything after the first shot. Mike
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My 3rd archery coyote while hunting deer. this is from a couple years ago.
I already have a single shot .204ruger is why I asked...thanks
got some good eatin' there if you marinate it right.
I agree with Pat...An AR is paramount in anchoring doubles and triples. My AR's are all suppressed. Not only are they quieter and the coyote usually has not idea where the shot came from but they have very little muzzle flip. I don't even lose sight of them after the first shot, making doubles/target acquisition much easier.
AR, 60 yards iron sights.
AR, 60 yards iron sights.
I agree with the AR for coyotes. I used to use a Savage 22-250 bolt gun, and my hunting partner used an AR in .223/5.56. One morning he killed three about 45 seconds between the first and last shots while I was killing one. That sold me on the semi-auto. No movement other than getting on target. The quick second or third shot on a running target is good also, because you will eventually have that opportunity if you call enough.
I liked her so much, I had her mounted
I liked her so much, I had her mounted
I shot this one while it was harassing three antelope bucks.
Nice rig Pat. I have a Ruger in 5.56 for predator hunting. I changed the factory furniture, put some rails on it, bipod, light for night shooting, polished the trigger, and swapped out some springs to get it to a crisp 3.5 pounds. It is a lights out shooter. You are right, the AR is a great platform for predator hunting.
God Bless men
thats get it done right there MikeC
No way I could have dropped this double without a semi-auto. Brush shooting and it happened fast.
My AR is older. Bought new in 2000 during the ban, and heavily modified since. It seems heavier than newer ARs. Either way, if I don't flinch like a girl, I can often see the bullet impact through the 4x ACOG
Sunday evening. Lot of fun until they figure out the calls.
bow season (if you're a purist!)
Scott
Ok, now I have to show off ! Here's one from last spring with my Rock River lower, Delton upper, rebarreled to 6.8 SPC with free float handguard and ...............
SD coyotes with 1 from Kansas
SD coyotes with 1 from Kansas
CNelk - cool - is that a Remington Model 660?!! I have a Model 600 (350 Magnum) & a 660 (6.5 mm Magnum)! I love the laminated stocks! >>>>-------->
Pat, what do you do with the pelts?. I heard prime ones were going to decent coin lately. Of course, that may drop with the glut you put on the market.
Love that .204 Ruger, especially on the AR. I had a savage bolt and a RRA varmint upper that both did 0.5" no problem with Berger 40gn varminters, Sierra 32gn blitz kings, , and Hornady 30 and 32 gn VMax (all hand loads). Any of those rounds turned woodchucks into bloody rags.
lol. I'm no neurosurgeon but it looks like that dog is going to lose his sense of smell have some long term memory loss.
And a concussion to boot!
Bob Wendt is a heck of a guy, I learned a lot from his videos. Glad to see the hides are not going to waste.
Well, dang. I was just about to eat some pizza just prior to scrolling to the bottom of this thread.
Cool thread.........I don't really specifically hunt coyotes but shoot a few that "get in my way" ha Two years ago, I had my son rifle hunting deer in eastern, MT and ran into my first double on coyotes.....accidentally snuck up on the first one mousing in a draw and walked over the next ridge and flushed out the 2nd one with a lucky running shot......tannery just finished the 2nd one and I'll get it back.
After talking to a couple trappers I have insured, I probably should have kept them both but the first one I'd taken a hunk out of his back, smart animals that would be the last survivors if we didn't step in.
Shot him running away with a .243 at 243 yards:) The bullet exited the eye ball and so essentially had no holes in it.
They are so cute when they are dead!
They are so cute when they are dead!
Here's a cute one from yesterday. .220 swift.
First this year with the 223AI.
And one from this morning.
Oh man, I'm enjoying this. Lot of great rifles out there!
Here's a couple of my favorite coyote rifles and coyotes from the past week. Proof Research 22-250.
And here's my suppressed Christiansen AR .223
Adding to the thread, because some of y'all are just showing off :)
My custom APR in .280 Remington
That's a great looking rifle. I bet that .280 dropped him in his tracks.
Pat can you explain the threaded barrel on your AR. I thought they were all push in.
In between "ice" storms today. Ruger 2506.
Maybe Tracker is thinking that your barrel was threaded into the receiver like a bolt gun, versus the normal AR's slip-fit, with a barrel nut for security.
Man... 280 Rem (7mm Express!), 25 06... you guys are using some great rounds!!
My 6.5-284 Norma is still waiting on load development. Gotta wait till end of August. Its killing me, lol!!!
I bet it is! I would love to have a 6.5-284, that's a great round.
Thanks CJE, so is that 25'!! the 6.5-284 is pretty much a new version of 6.5x55 Swede, which is what I wanted (I gave mine to my younger son when he bought his first house) but I couldn't find a brand new one. I couldn't afford to barrel (Hart, Lija, Shilen etc) an action, so I went with a new Savage in the '284. Time will tell!!
I bet you will like it, I've heard good things about it. I've got the itch for a new gun but not sure if I want a new coyote gun or a long range toy......leaning more towards a 6x47 lapua for coyotes.
Funny you mentioned the 6x47... If I had to do it all over again.. 6.5x47! longer barrel life, reaches out fine, has a great bench rest history, lower recoil... on and on...
But I was in a bit of a hurry, and very twitterpated by my 6.5x55 and the copy-ish, 6.5-284.
But in MHO, Its all good, and the differences that we all obsess over usally matter way less than shooter skill as long as we make reasonable choices in caliber selection
accurateshooter.com has fantastic, authoritative information on this.
Its all good : - D !!!
bow shot, I was twitterpated a couple times, but it was a looong time ago :)