I started off the New Year taking a successful night hunt last night and put the hammer on a nice male coyote!

... I’ve taken 2 off my farm in the past two evenings

Between the new thermal scanner & the Twisted Tea they don’t stand a chance!

I’m work'n on it. Nice going!

great start...

Myself and a couple buddies tried it again last night and we managed to put one down and shot another that ran off and we didn’t recover. That makes #5 since the New Year. I’m enjoying the night hunting with the new thermal scanner. Thermal is just ridiculously fun!

dont look like fun for the coyote

I'm just too proud of this thing to not flaunt a little...

Disclosure: I trapped it and didn't shoot it outright.

cool [bleep], tinner.

Alaska?

NICE Tinman!

Nice job. T...

That is a good catch.

Side note: I am interested in what bindings are on your shoes. Mine need to be replaced.

Very cool catch Tinman!

Thanks all! I was stoked! I have never seen something so mad before. My life was in jeopardy getting a clean shot at him at about 15 feet.
Yes, it was in Alaska.

Roundoak, the bindings are from Maine Guide Snowshoes. I have no idea if they sell them by themselves or if you have to buy their shoes too. I do like the setup though.

T Inman
That pic took some time to load and what a shock when it did.

Not something ya see everyday!

Thanks, they do sell bindings separate, got a pair on order.

Super sweet on the Wolverine. Congrats!

Congrats on a great catch. Most of us will never even see one

That's pretty damn cool, every reason to brag it up.

Actually deserves it's own thread.

Hat or britches!?!?!?!?

Too cool!

Too cool. That’s an awesome catch. I expected to scroll down and see a wolf. To my surprise even cooler.

Cooler n heck, ThinCock !!

Awesome!!!! Great picture set up as well!!!

Another one down early this morning before I headed off to work. Loving the thermal scanner for shooting coyotes ... complete game changer!

The boy and I got a double this morning

We took the kiddos out last night to a buddies farm and let them get some action behind the .22s killing some coons. Fun time!

RickyBobby -

Those buggers are heavy dead weight - I remember being a kid of 16 years old, and having to haul a couple 30 plus pound raccoons a couple of miles back to the house...
I ended up timing their feet together and draping them over my shoulder - I was a tired and happy kid.. what a memory.

Great pic’s... those kids will remember it forever.

Well I have been using the living hell out of these shoes and have no complaints about the shoes themselves but I did wear through one of the cordura binding straps yesterday several miles from the pickup. Luckily I wasn't far from a packed snowmachine trail as I just couldn't patch the binding strap good enough with what I had on m, and my cold hands. Maine Guides do replace those straps for free, though you have to send them an order form, and of course wait for them to ship it to you. That doesn't help me much when I want to be using them right NOW. I bandaided the tightening strap for today and hopefully will have a replacement strap by the end of the week.

Just something to be aware of.

RickyBobb slayin critters. Nice pics, congrats

T Inman - I'd get more than just 1 replacement. A spare could be useful!

It just occurred to me, elks is prominently missing from this thread!
Maybe he's waiting on his 50 BMG, for squirrels!

I will, but it'll cost (not that they're expensive). Maine Guides will only replace the broken straps you send back to them, which would likely be more $ in shipping than to just buy cordura straps at Walmart. No biggie, but an annoyance.

Checking the cows this morning, and saw this one running across an adjacent pasture field. Sat down, barked to stop him, and killed him. The remarkable thing is that I shot through 2 five strand barbed wire fences, without hitting the wire.

Congratulations on not having to fix fence! 😂

AMATEUR!!!!
Bet I could have got 3 wires!

Doubled up on 2 great big ol males last night!

Quite the headache you gave that pooch.


Luv it.

it dose look like wile coyote

Congrats!!! At what distance and what magnification at the scope? What caliber/bullet combination did you use?

Huntsman, what's the gun and ammo? Inquiring minds want to know.

You skin them badgers? I’ve never shot one but I keep saying I want to shoot one and have a little rug made. I walked right up on one a couple months ago and cornered him in a fence row, could have shot him easy but he was a little bitty one so I let him go. Neat looking rascals.

Ruger Hawkeye Pred in 6.5creed, slapped into a LSS. 140 AMax's.

Kid, I generally do, but 30338 just built a new fleshing beam and wants the greasy, smelly bastid to practice on....grin

Me and my pard killed a few pigs this evening.

Did you .17 that one?

I got some catching up to do!

No I used a cannon on him. 7TCU with 110gr Speer TNTs. Right through the “shield” from about 90 yards, bang flopped.

Sweet! Ive found the "shield" aint all its cracked up to be...

Remington Model 7 223, Burris FF2 3X9, 55 grain VMax reload using Benchmark. Range around 150 yards.

Pulled a double on cats

Same stand double or two in a day? Either way heck of a day. Both have good spots too.

Night hunt. Made a poor shot on the top one (male) then shot the second (female) about 200 yards away while looking for the first. So not a called double really. Orange coloration is undesirable for cats so the top one isn’t as valuable as the bottom, plus my poor shooting put a big hole in him. The female is the prettiest cat I’ve ever shot.

Me and the Sidekick beat up on the pigs again yesterday evening. This one and 3 of her buds won’t be rooting in the beans anymore.

223 with the mighty 55gr Hornady SP. That’s the exit in the pic.

Nice work brother, he’s gonna be a killer!! 👍

After work rodeo today. Indianed up on what I thought was a pair of pigs. Only rifle I had was the 17rem, took my 45 to polish off any wounded. Trigger froze solid on the rifle in the 20mph blowing mist at 23deg, couldn’t make it do anything. So I whipped out the 1911 and got to business. 2 pigs erupted into about 20 when the shooting started, I managed to knock down two as they ran helter skelter. Dummies ran out into the middle of a half section of green wheat so I ran to the truck and hauled around the section to head them off. Managed to get the trigger thawed by blowing in it and killed a couple more. I’m going to have to put my 223 back in the truck, 25gr Hornadys are poor for raking shots. 200gr wadcutters are better but the trajectory sucks. Dance with who you brung.

kid, you need a sweater to match those grips....

I’d look downright snazzy kicking around out in the weeds in that. Like a lost college dean or something.

Dats rasis !

Glassed this bedded one up. I guess far enough for him to think he couldn’t be seen.

@T_inman w/ the Wolverine

Holy Cow! We don't have such cool animals here.... how much does that monster weigh?? And is that a 45/70 or 444??
Thanks for sharing that one!

Not a clue on the weight. 30 lbs would be my best, albeit wild guess.

That is a Marlin 39, .22 LR.
Not a guide gun.

I did kind of feel like I needed a .45-70 that day though.

DUDE! You killed a Wolverine with a .22?

You'll go down in history as one of the greats!

I already am one of the greats. You're just now coming to this realization?

I did kill it via .22 LR. Correct. After said .22 went "click" because it was -20 and the firing pin was too sluggish to work correctly. A little TLC corrected that issue.
It's leg was caught in something tight though and instead of trying to get away it was trying to kill me. Lunging at me actually.

Crazy mothafukker that thing was.

Yep...that episode plus the EPIC shot of you on a rock 2 ft. from a lion with your pistol...


Damn...you remind me of....ME!


Now all you gotta do is dig a wounded leopard out of a hole and kill him with a rusty-assed Taurus .38 pressed against his temple...

Tom how were you able to dig the leopard out with your huge balls in the way? Lol

And...to make this less homo, how did you dodge the dinosaurs long enough to get it done?

You are just being stupid now.

Everyone knows the dinosaurs were long gone by the time Taurus .38s were produced....

sheesh....

And as far as dodging the dinosaurs go, I don't think you, or the world, realizes the REAL reason for their extinction....


That's right...it was me.

Well yeah...franks red hot sauce was invented back then, making dino wings popular

Fück it, here is #3 for the year. Trapped again, but the trapping forum doesn't get as much traffic as this one so I am posting this here instead. He's another .22 victim, but the situation was not nearly as dramatic as this guy wasn't literally trying to kill me as I got into position to shoot him, like #1 was last month. This is a bigger boar and will be rugged.

Look at how badly he jacked up that tree. That was ALL him, either chewing or breaking off the branches by wrapping the chain around them. Some of those branches are as thick as my dong. These things are crazy strong.

That awesome!

I couldn’t agree more!

I'm agreeing with what is being said. I hope you'll show photos of the rug when completed.

Wow..

Whole lotta attitude running around that tree! Good stuff

Nice work Ted! 👍

That really is too cool for school tin man!

That is Uber cool! You have got 3 this year? Are you going to have a rug made of the biggest one? If so hope you post it here so we can drool over it.
Are you selling the fur? What does a prime hide like that go for?

Ya, I plan to rug this latest one and sell the other two hides.

Prices vary but these are all prime -30 degree furs, so I suspect they're worth $3-400 each, but that is just a guess. That is completely scraped and with ears/lips turned. I may sell them to a taxidermist instead as they sometimes buy them too, and then I wouldn't have all that extra work to do. I am in a goofy living situation and don't really have a shop to properly take care of the hides right now.

Where, da fugg are pics of #2, arsehole !

While pulling on the carhartts to go do chores, i seen an apparition flitting thru the yucco’s in the alpaca patch. Grabbed the rifle and stepped out. I don’t know if he was just passing thru or after an alpaca breakfast. I didn’t give the mangy bastid a chance at option number two.....

Good in!

Well done, Huntsman.

you apacaed his a$$

It wasn't near as fun, as it was a younger female and DOA.
Live trapping is way funner.

Luv it.
The bluish tint is a sign of it being COLD.

Hunts, who makes that cheek riser on the AR style butt stock??
That picture gives me shivers, looks damn cold.

magpul moe butt and 3/4" riser

Need "like" button !

God you suck...I want to live where I can whack coyotes on a daily basis while working.

Yeah yeah yeah!
I actually started pulling my sets because taking 2 wolverine out of one area isn't a good conservation tactic (from what I have read) but left a few targeting lynx specifically. That big male Wolverine got caught in one of those. Oh well. I didn't really "want" it, but I will take it!
Got me 6 ptarmigan that day too. They're so good eating...

Shoot them in the face, if all you can see is the face.....

Back in my college days I did that to a few wimminz.

What about the basedow disease? Did he have this before the encounter?

Did he fell victim to one of your .22-handguns?

nah. the creed while deer hunting....

Hahaha!! Good one!

.22 PPC got blooded today.

Caught this one chasing bunnies in my backyard last night ... stuck the AR out the bathroom window and put an end to it. Had to slip on the Crocs for my recovery! 🤣

Got up this morning, jumped on the Pioneer, drove across the road to some public land and called this one in. Yotes dont like 50 V-Max's going 3700 fps.

Good way to start the day!

Did you .17 that one? Sure looks like it!

Sure nuff. I think my favorite part of the 17 is that for whatever reason I can always hear that little 25gr HP when it lands. I howled that one in and it came in the back door and busted me. One shot offhand at 134 yards and it was lights out, led her just a smidge too far as evidenced by the broke neck.

that's my kind of coyote . DEAD good job kid

Excellent ....but you have to quit posting pics of that rifle...the lust is strong....

That wood gives me wood!

I always figured that's how you rolled.

This fugger had been playing Santa Claus in the neighboring houses chimney.

So much for the Christmas spirit....

Shot one in almost the identical location with my Rem 700 .17 and the Hornady 25 HP just about took his head off... there wasn't much of his neck left and I had a whole car full of spectators watching me- my hunting partners....

I’m working on shooting up a box of the 25gr Hornady that is from the late 70’s or early 80’s, has a slightly different ogive and nose profile from the more modern ones I have. Wonder if the old ones are tougher or something? I’ve never had one splash, never had one leave a big hole, really no issues of any kind even head shooting pretty big pigs.

That is odd. I can't say I have ever seen a 25 Horn HP from my .17 Rem do anything but put a small hole in a critter, then blow up inside and not exit. I can't think of any neck shot coyotes I have taken with that bullet/round but I am sure I have done it. The only "bad" thing I have seen them do is take the front leg off of a red fox I shot a bit low one time. This includes a lot of thin skinned critters like rabbits, though it'll tear a prairie dog up like most anything will.

I have a few thousand of them left, but they're all manufactured from within the last few years.

Most of the time the Hornady 25 grain hp's were extremely predictable and accurate. However, once in a great while when I encountered a coyote, they would do funny things. I always wondered if hitting a bone made them extra explosive as they seemed to just explode and would leave baseball sized holes in one side, but wouldn't pass through. In any case, I got tired of dealing with the constantly coppered barrel ruining the accuracy after 25-30 rounds and needing cleaning, and then moly coating the bullets to extend the accuracy so that barrel went down the road and had a VSSF 223 barrel spun on by ITD. Shoots bugholes now with 40 grain BT's and raises hell with coyotes at much longer ranges....

Just out of curiosity, what is the longest you guys have killed coyotes with your .17's ? I think the longest I had was one that stood around a bit too long at about 400 yards, but I've always considered that a pretty lucky shot given the windy conditions and other things...

Bob

I thought Hornady stopped making the 25 hp's? Last time I tried to find some before I had the rifle rebarreled they were really tough to find and in very short supply...

Well I thought so too, but Midway got their mitts on apparently a bulk shipment last year and packaged them in boxes of 500...dont know if they still have any.

Ive only shot a couple coyotes with them. No exits. Shot a pile of grey fox with them and it was pretty dramatic....glad I wasn't trying to save the hides kinda dramatic.

I have killed a few at 400+, without any issue whatsoever. Not sure about the longest shot but am thinking it is less than 500.

It is odd how the same bullets do different things to different people. I have the same issues with 6.5mm ELD-Ms and 140 bergers. They absolutely explode (sometimes the ELD-Ms in mid flight) where others have awesome outcomes, with the same twist rates and appx velocities. Maybe individual barrels have something to do with it as I'll throw 500+ 25 grain HPs through my .17 Rem between cleanings and it never has an issue keeping them well under MOA, nor not working well once the critter is hit, including coyote shoulder bone hits.

All solid chest hits or around the edges?
I never have shot a grey (missed one in North Carolina but that's a different story) but they sure look small and fragile. I could see any higher velocity bullet being rough on them.

You might be onto something there. My particular Rem 700 .17 Remington had an extremely rough barrel. I literally had to clean it every 30 rounds or so if I expected any kind of accuracy to continue- then it would go back to bughole accuracy, for a while. I wonder if the rough barrel was damaging the integrity of the bullet jacket and causing them to be more fragile than normal? doesn't matter now, I don't see myself going back to any .17 cal anything at this point.

Have any of you .17 shooters used the plastic tipped bullets? How have they worked out? Accuracy and game wise....

Bob

I went to a SxS shotgun shoot.

I had a great time, it is really a lot of fun doing things with weirdos like myself that think gun progress ended when they put barrels on top of each other. We had a great crowd with folks from about 5-6 different states and some incredibly fine guns from Germany, France, Austria, Sweeden(mine), Belgium, the UK and the good old USofA(Parkers, LC Smiths, old Remingtons, Fox's and LeFever's who-wee! heady stuff.

The shoot and show were held on a cattle ranch and when the Rancher saw my PM(Predatormasters) hat said that the coyotes have been harassing's his calves and I should shoot all I saw. Challenge on. Being as I was going to a sxs shoot I left the rifles and scoped drillings home. Well I I rummaged through the truck and found three 16ga 2.5" shells loaded with an ounce of BB's and I had a 114 yr old drilling along that I was going to shoot in a 16ga match(it did well). Under my jeans on the coat hook was an old Screery jackrabbit closed reed call, I was set.

I headed out in the pasture with a nice cross wind, a couple blasts on the call and I saw him pop out of the brush about 200 yards out, he came in on a string just stopping a couple times and needed just a little coaxing. At 44 yards just a little farther than I wanted him I felt the breeze on the back of my neck and he locked up like a statue. I knew he wasn't coming any farther so I let her rip, he yelped, went down and took off like a bat out of h--l but slowed and went down about 100 yards out, It took me awhile to find him as I didn't realize he had crossed a deep arroyo but found him about 30 yard beyond, good thing I saw him go down as there wasn't a drop of blood anywhere. Fun way to start the shoot. The rancher was happy.

No name German drilling, 2 1/2" 16ga/16ga/9.3x72R(no rifle ammo along)

Big for a border coyote

SWEET! Odd you mention your call...one of my very favorites...just dug mine out to make sure it was in the day pack for the next trip...

I too have experienced the drastically different bullet performance deal. Corelokts and I just don’t get along. I haven’t used many but the times I have they’ve been awful. On the opposite end of the spectrum I seem to be able shoot pigs and deer with .22 caliber “varmint” bullets and see excellent results. Who knows.

I was initially worried about the 17’s reputation for fouling and the chore of cleaning, even went so far as to buy a nice .17 cleaning rod and jags. Turns out my rifle is like yours and I don’t clean it unless I get caught out in the rain with it or something. Maybe it’s the magic CFE223 I feed it. I don’t have any colony varmints around so mine probably doesn’t see nearly the round count some do either.

My furthest coyote has probably been 250-275 yards or so, the broken country around here just doesn’t usually show good opportunities way out there since they usually have cover for the approach. I did kill one at a shade over 400 last fall with my 223.

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You get the prettiest coyotes there!

well, two of the three. The one on the right is nasty mangy.

What do you guys do with your coyotes after? Hides aren't worth anything around here and I've always shot coyotes for predator control so I just left them lay in the field... are you guys skinning them and tanning the skins? or?

Mine get their picture taken and stay where they fall. Pretty sure the guys further north and west of me get pretty good money for some of theirs.

fur is beyond prime now so leave em lay. Fur prices were down this season, but normally I sell all of em in the round.

Leave em lay or drag and toss in the brush.

You disrespectful, unethical fücks. All you do is take a picture and leave coyotes where they died, or at most drag them to the bushes? I was taught to respect the animals I kill.

I give them a respectful finger pointing and laugh at their dead ass then go find where I dropped my beer when I shot.

We tend to practice a lot of "shoot and release" on a variety of varmints.

Thats exactly what I told a buddy of mine when I took him on his first predator hunt this fall and he dropped a mangy fox! We did "keep" his second one though as it had a nice coat and he wanted it tanned to hang on his wall.

That about sums it up... I have a buddy who came back from an elk hunt and his wife asks if he practices "patch and release"? Laughed my butt off at that one and it has stuck in camp....

Awesome!

Poor pic, but it is a 2021 dead critter....

You climbed the whole way up the mountain in the snow to shotgun a porcupine???

Sure did: that's how I roll. My love of killing porcupines runs deep.
Spot and stalk, from miles away in 10 feet of snow.

I wasn't actually after these or anything....






Damn Georgians...A guy has to break everything down for them Barney style, but I luv them anyway.

Do you save any feathers for making lures?

I do not. That's not a bad idea though.
I have tied flies and dressed up worn and frayed rooster tails and other spinners in the past. I should do that a bit more.

Nice uh, what do you call it? Skonk?

Anybody as excited as I am to get out and shoot prairie dogs?

NICE looking cat!

Oh my, with that white belly and all those spots too bad that is a S. TX cat, not from "up nort".

WARNING - VERY GRAPHIC PICTURE TO FOLLOW!!!







Shot from over 200 yards away with a 135gr A-Tip out of a 6.5 Creedmoor. NOT fur friendly!!

Ewwwwwww.....

WV coyote, 110 yards, 22 Hornet.

40 gr. Sierra Blitzing, 12 gr. Lilgun.

https://i.postimg.cc/3Jw3xRBx/IMG-20210424-074925365.jpg

MANGE !!

You did that one a favor.

drover

RIO7, good shooting right there!

Nice.....

This morning....

Deuce?

.22 PPC

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DAMN!...you get the prettiest coyotes!

I havent gotten out yet, but will after the first of the month. Coyotes are down on the list after bobcats and foxes but I generally get a couple...

I thought those were "Chupacabra"?!

This morning up near Wagonmound, New Mexico.

Used a .22/250 with a 40 grain Nosler Varmageddon.

Did you call the coyote in?

Yes, I did.

I'd better throw this in here.....17 Remington. Cat came to the call right at 30 seconds. Never heard of such a thing.

Excellent!!

Congrats Ingwe!

A quick couple stands in Black Friday. Sako Vixen 222 Rem.

NICE!

What ingwe said..

Dug a big hole in the road. Rio7

He's haired out real good for your part of the country. How many times did you have to shoot him? I never got one to die from a single .22lr....

Ingwe, He was in the hole,digging when i drove up, grabbed my .22 and walked up to the hole, he turned around and looked at me and I shot him between the eyes 1 and done. Rio7

How do you carry your Ruger pistol? Looks like the gun has fixed sights. Can you shoot to poin of aim at 20 or 25 yards with that gun?

Elmer, I have a holster on the console of my Jeep, Yep fixed sights, i don't recall shooting this .22 over about 10 yards, but out that far it's on the money. Rio7

I wondered where Pumpkin wandered off to....

Good feral kitty.

Only other recently dead critter I got a pic of. Killed a couple of these calling in West Texas,then left them alone, as we had them coming in to every stand and I didnt want to make any noise and scare off a bobcat that might be coming ( which I did at least once...).17 Rem

Clean fox.

Looks like the 17 Rem sure was fur friendly .

Actually I used a pretty hot load and a 25Vmax, thats his " show side". Shot a couple more with same results, NOT fur friendly on a critter that small so Im going back to a lighter loaded 20 Vmax for fox and cats.

Nice looking 22 rifle. What make and what model?

I think you told me that Tom, but I forgot. I remember you saying that.


Elmer Keith- it's a Brno model 1.

Nice pussy!

I've got one to add

NICE!

Lynx? How much did that cat weigh? Beauty.

RS

Yes, lynx. I didn't have the scale for exact weight, but I'm going to guess 45 lbs. My taxidermist was impressed with the size of that cat!

Very nice! Did you trap that cat?

Where did you bag it? In the US?

I did trap it. I bagged it in central Alaska

Coyote, tried to swallow a 139 gr. Scenar at 125 Yrds. Rio7

Awesome

More Blew eyes

Broke in my new WOA 24” .204 AR upper last night. I’m anxious to get after more coyotes with it!

120 yds, 257 Roy, 115 NBT at 3450fps. Lights out!

Nice pics people,, called a coyote 40 yards to me in the dark last night. I need to get a thermal !

Just this morning in NE Nevada. 200 yard shot with a 16” BCM middy, and a 60 grain .223 VMax. The scope is one of the close-out Burris Fullfield E1 4.5-14’s talked about in the Optics forum. Just sighted in on Saturday. First Coyote with the rifle too.

Nice!!

Sig, I bought a thermal scanner last year and I shoot with night vision. It’s unbelievable! Thermal is so fun … especially hunting with buddies. It doesn’t have to be crazy expensive but it’s definitely not cheap no matter how you spin it. I have no regrets spending what I did on my thermal monocular. It’s so cool! Lol