300 yd coyote shots

mpage, you wanna think about that question for a minute? :D

Coyotes eat chickens and kill house cats and smaller dogs. They'e been know to attack small children (near Phoenix, AZ). If they don't show up at a near distance, you take the shot they give you.
 
Either gun will work fine. You're not going to be taking more than 1 shot more than likely (slight chance of taking 2) because coyote don't like their own dead, so if you get one, i suggest leaving him there or hangin it up so they don't come back. And about the one shot, once you shoot into them, they disappear so if you don't want a dead carcass layin around to keep them away, get some buddies together, as mentioned earlier, and try to get more of them.
 
mpage said:
How are coyotes a threat at 300 yards?
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You have got to be kidding me. If you have small animals or children then a Coyote with in 3 miles is a danger. Have you not seen the news stories lately where yotes are trying to drag off kids during the day time? The threat is that the coyotes will move in closer and closer. Because even though Dusty Rivers takes the right precauitions does not mean that his neighbors are taking the same precauitions. They may leave little Fifi out at night they may leave the trash out and open then what you have yotes next door. Then they are comming over to your house to see what they can find there.

Dusty I Would do everything in my power to kill them all I like the 3 or 4 buddies at once and take them out with volley fire. Take a look over at Varmint Al's web site you can get some mp3 files over there that might help. You can use them to get set up and cover your noise.
 
Now just remember that I saw this on a hunting TV program, but this guy shot coyotes from spitting distance to over 600 yards away. His scope had yard markers and all he did was dial up the distance after checking with a laser rangefinder. I don't know the caliber but he did quite well with it. I'd get a buddy and shoot the first two you can get the crosshairs on. Generally they will be the alpha pair, and the others songdogs may stick around waiting for them long enough for another shot or two. Not all yotes take off right away, and you need to be ready for a longer range second shot; they will sometimes stop and look over their shoulder before disappearing. This fatal flaw causes them to get hit with the next round. I myself prefer a 22-250 with hot 55 grain loads out to 440 yards; after that the 6mms and 25s come into play. We don't have wild hogs yet in Upstate, but there are many 2 legged ones around. I don't believe there are any back tags for them however.
 
Dusty:

I don't get it. Why ask this forum what rifle you should shoot a prairie beggar? Seems to me that if this situation was valid, you'd just shoot with whatever was handy.

Jack
 
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