Always follow up even if you feel you missed !!!!

[REDGREEN]

Nice shooting on the yote. They are tough customers for sure. I took one out at 550 yards with a 130 grain hollowpoint Speer out of the 300 Win mag.The bullet hit the ribs on the right side, traveled the length of him,blew off the hind leg on the left side, and he took off. Found him a couple hundred yards away with his innards being outards. Have had the same thing happen with the 270 Wby. They run.

 

[SJB358]

Earle, give the 70 grain BTs a try. Should be able to run them pretty quick and they open up pretty quickly from the pictures Brian has shown me.

 

[35 Whelen]

Sounds like great advice guys................... thanks for the help. I am going to give these 70gr BT a try and see if we cant get a better "Anchorage" on these big Maine coyotes the rest of our season! I hate to say this but I have actually had better luck with getting them off their feet with almost ANY bullet over the years than I have this season with these 87gr Vmax.............. and because it is the same shot every time I just cant imagine they can run that far hit like that with the bullets traveling down thru them over that much tissue damage , So I have to accept that because it is blowing right thru them the actual amount of "shock that it is really transferring" into them just isn't enough to get the standard results we have all come to accept as standard when shooting the .243 at coyotes. I see lots of 70-75gr offerings in bullets from most of the manufactures but am really surprised we didn't get a single comment on these 70gr Armageddons??? Did that bullet ever get produced?????
I had such great luck with the 58gr Vmax I guess I just assumed the 87gr would act the same way which it does not. Looking back over the years I guess the bulk of the coyotes we shot since returning to Maine in 2004 were shot out of a bag of bullets I got at a gun show that were marked "80gr Sierras 6mm"...................... they were cheap, and I figured they would be "good enough" to shoot a coyote with. I used the standard 44grs of 760/414 and really never had any problems with say maybe one coyote in a dozen, ever leaving the scene, to travel any distance. Looking back on this now I am guessing these bullets were their "Blitz king" series and I was probably shooting a premium "varmint type" bullet and didn't even realize it, because they where sold for $5 in a bread bag !!!! Since I have long used them all up, I cant be certain, but thats what I am now thinking . I am thinking the run off rate was something more like one outta 10/12 or something like that, with most of the run offs, tipping over in less than 50 yds??????

REDGREEN,
That was an amazing looooooong shot you made on that dog........... thats a poke!

 

[SJB358]

Earle, the 70 grain Varmegeddon's are a fairly new bullet. I don't think they have been around more than a year or two. I am sure they would work just fine as well, but again, I have 0 experience with any of the 70's.

 

[Guy Miner]

Mostly I've shot coyotes with my .25-06 the past few years. It works out well, but sometimes isn't particularly fur-friendly. This young dog caught a 115 gr Berger VLD at about 160 yards. The off-side of the 'yote was pretty well opened up. It didn't run at all.

On the hunt last October with Stephen I managed to hit a coyote way out there at 420 yards or so with the 115 Ballistic Tip. Very little pelt damage. Very dead coyote that didn't go anywhere, just rolled at the hit.

Never have had one run off - but agree that they are tough critters.

 

[35 Whelen]

Guy,
Thats a long poke on a songdog............................. good shooting.
Keep up the good work . That one looks like it had nice winter fur coming in !
What a shot!

 

[35 Whelen]

Here is a link to the actual coyote that I shot that day in the top of the shoulder and the bullet exited out his lower belly . Check out this blood trail and the shape he was in when I got to him!
You wont believe how far he actually traveled. :shock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsMzrg-9 ... e=youtu.be