FWIW Randy Anderson has some coyote hunting videos and he has a friend with the Savage combo in his video and he makes several long rifle shots with his with a scope on it. At least the rifle part of his isn't junk as the coyotes looked real dead. He had see-thru mounts so that he could see down the barrel for shotgun shots I believe. There have been several times with my coyote hunting that if I would have had a shotgun and a rifle instead of just a rifle I would have been better off instead of having a coyote pop out of the weeds at 20 yds and bust you and run and all you have is a 3 second window of a shot before he is gone. Great gun for a predator caller; I don't know why I don't have one.