Foxing with .25-06

[SJB358]

I just might use the wife's 25-06. It hasn't been blooded yet, and I have a good load running the 120 A-Frames, while coyotes don't need that sorta bullet, I imagine it'll work!

 

[ElmerThud]

I can't believe that wouldn't work a treat & as you say, while the bullet may be a bit of overkill, Man that'd be great to 'blood' the 25-06 You have such a wide range of huntable quarry over the water there....coyote, great sounding sport.

 

[ElmerThud]

I can't believe that wouldn't work a treat & as you say, while the bullet may be a bit of overkill, Man that'd be great to 'blood' the 25-06 You have such a wide range of huntable quarry over the water there....coyote, great sounding sport.

 

[Guy Miner]

ET - let me know if you want to come over here and hunt coyotes, or maybe even mule deer & elk with that rifle of yours. We could likely work out something.

Guy

 

[ElmerThud]

That's such a kind invitation Guy. PM. Cheers, ET

 

[Oldtrader3]

ET, if you are going to go to all that trouble to hunt here in the western US, why not book for a wolf and shoot coyote as a consolation prize?

 

[ElmerThud]

It's a wonderful thought OT3, but I can't do it just yet......probably 12-18 months time though.

 

[1Shot]

I was deer hunting a few years ago where you can kill more than one deer a day. It was in the evening a couple hours before dark. I was hunting out of a box stand on an old logging road that runs down the middle of an old cut over. The stand is located almost in the middle portion of the length of the road. You can see 125 yards to your right and 170 yard to your left. I usually take one of my T/C Contender pistols and set it up on sand bags facing to my right and set up a rifle facing to my left. That day I had my custom Rem 700 with a #6 Shilen 26" SS barrel in 25-06 facing left and my 10" barrel Contender 357 mag facing right. I had not been in the stand more than 10 minutes that afternoon when out pops a nice 8 point buck 111 yards to my left. I quickly get the cross hairs on his front shoulder as he is broadside to me and squeeze the trigger, BOOM. The 117 gr Sierra Pro Hunter pushed by 49 grs IMR 4350 leaves the muzzle at 3000 fps and the sound is POP as it hits the center of the bucks front shoulder is heard and he drops in his tracks dead before he hits the ground. I always stay in the stand until dark waiting on more deer to show up. It had not been 5 minutes and I catch a flick of movement to my right that catches my eye. Here comes a fox trotting down the road toward me. I knew if he went on past me down the road he would come up on my dead deer and most likely start eating on him. I had some 35mm film bottles I use for sent bombs in the stand and decided to throw one at the fox to maybe run him off. When the bottle hit the ground just in front of him he stopped and jumped back. Then like a cat, bobbing his head back and forth he sneaks up on the bottle and tries to bite it and it pops out of his mouth. He jumps back and turns left and runs into the cut over behind me. About 15 minutes later I catch a flick of movement down to my left. There stands that fox up on top of my dead deer getting ready to have dinner. I get behind my 25-06 place the cross hairs on the back edge of his rib cage as he faces away from me with a slight right to left angle. I squeeze the trigger and the fox is blown clean off my deer. I still stay in the stand because it is still about 45 minutes before dark. About 10 minutes passes and I catch movement to my right again. Here comes another fox down the road. I get behind my Contender pistol and get on the fox. By this time it is about 60 yards away and I whistle and he stops. I place the the cross hairs between his front shoulders where his neck meets his body. I squeeze the trigger and send a 180 gr Hornady XTP pushed by 13.5 grs H-110 out the muzzle at 1350 fps and it strikes my point of aim and all four legs of the fox fly out to the side of the fox and he plops down on his belly dead as a hammer. When I went to get my buck I found the fox that I shot off it in TWO pieces. Man that 117 Sierra is wicked on everything I have shot with it. Bang flop. The other fox had a entering hole between its shoulder which severed the spine and an exit hole the size of a nickle just below it's bung hole. I told the many that owned the farm about the foxes and he was very happy. He said to kill everyone I could because he had chickens and they had been killing quite a number of them.

 

[ElmerThud]

Nice bag from around a half hour in the hide. I guess sometimes it just happens that way ATB ET

 

[Oldtrader3]

Good work, if you can get it, either with .243 or .25-06. A dead Coyote is dead, regardless!