Small Game, Predator and TrappingFrom shooting squirrels in your backyard to calling coyotes in Arizona. This forum now contains trapping information..
I'm not an extremely experienced coyote hunter, but the suckers wouldn't leave me alone during deer season! I grabbed my thumbhole T/C Encore with a T/C Custom Shop .264 Win Mag barrel and Leupold 4-12 and went out to see if I can get even with them! I didn't do anything special, simply covered my scent, dressed in full camo and set in my deer stand where I'd seen them travel all year!
Sure enough a nice female came out about 7:45 and presented me a broad side shot at 49 yards! I was kinda hoping for a little more long range challenge, but I was pleased with a perfect heart shot and an instant kill none the less! ONE DOWN! Barely an hour went by and here comes "big daddy"! A really big burly male was trotting along the fence line across the field. I was preparing to lead him a bit and let her fly and all of a sudden he stopped and quartered to me! I let the ole 264 fly and dropped him like a sack of taters!! 194 yards and he didn't even take a step! Now I'm hooked! I've been looking at electronic calls and also looking into a little smaller bullets for my 264. I found some 85 grain Sierra Varmiters that I'm gonna try. The 140 grain Core Loc was pretty hard on em as you can see in the pic! I didn't show the exit wound on the male as there was "stuff" hanging out of the hole, but you can see the exit hole on the female!
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I've been accused of favortism here are my favorites:
Mathews Z7
T/C Encore 209X50
-Leupold 3-9X40
Winchester Super X3
Winchester Model 94 Big Bore 444 Marlin
Winchester Model 70 300 Win Mag.
-Leupold 4-12X40
Ruger Super Blackhawk 44 mag.
Pretty good morning!
here are my favorites:
