Good stuff, Thanks for all the info Men, ordered an IOCTech Outlaw call with remote and decoy, another question, the big coyote up there with the monster Tom has to weigh 50lbs, would you guys hunt both with a suppressed 10/22 Ruger with 22LR HP's or an old model 70 22 Hornet firing 46gr Speer flat noses at 2900 fps, shot placement? was thinking head shot on either with the 22LR, not so sure about the Hornet.
Thanks Again.
Good move re the Outlaw. A friend of mine bought an Icotec Outlaw Dec. 21, loaded Rainshadow lion vocals on it the next day and killed a cougar with it Dec. 23 on his first calling stand. He used it to call a second lion on Dec. 27, which my grandson killed. Rainshadow site has the stories.
Ditto using the Hornet with 46 grain bullets. Cats are relatively easy to kill but pound for pound coyotes are as tough as grizzlies or mt. goats in my experience, extremely tenacious of life. I've killed several coyotes with .22 long rifle and though I have never lost one shot with a .22, the experience is why I don't ever ever choose the .22 on purpose for coyotes. If it is the rifle in hand when a coyote offers a surprise close shot, it will do.
Re head shots: have taken them on coyotes with a .22. A hit between eye and ear when the animal is broadside works. The problem is that we can't count on getting a head shot, or a good head shot anyway. Coyotes hit in lungs, alongside the spine without severing the spinal cord, various other places, can and often do run a loooooonnnggg ways before expiring. Use enough gun.
