Hmmmmm, I could've swore that the topic at hand was the 22lr, not the 22 mag. If I had no choice in caliber, I'd choose the 22 mag., BUT come on, to admit to not careing weather or not you recover your targets is childish at best. If you really don't care if you kill'em or wound'em, than just carry your 22lr all season and shoot'em up, but don't go on the internet and brag about it. Personnally, I sell the pelts so Ichoose to shoot them with a rifle that allows me to recover them near the point of being shot. Less time trying to find a wounded one is nice too, although I see now that some guys don't care to find them at all, dead or wounded.[:'(]
I witnessed a 2000# herford bull being put down with the lowly 22lr., and it took two shots. What does that have to do with being able to cleanlyshoot AND recover coyotes that have been body shot.
As far as getting out to shoot more, counting this weekend and last weekend, I shot some where around 1000 rounds through my 17hmr, .204, 22-250, and my .243 combined. So I think I got the "practice" part down pretty well, thank you very much!It's just too bad that all that practice was off a bench, so I'd hate to admit it, but I'd still struggle to hit the "brain" of a coyote in a calling situation from 50 to 100 yards even 50% of the time off shooting sticks and concidering that I may call and get to shoot at about 50 coyotes in a winter, that average don't enthuse me much! A lot of you guys are just better shots than me, apparently. After all, you guys keep preaching "head" shots like anything in the head will kill a coyote when actually the brain is the only kill zone and is the size of an egg.! All I can say, you guys ARE GOOOOooooddddd![8D]