HighDesert, I also had trouble finding dead coyote untill Cabelas and Bass Pro opened here. As for steel shot, the top fur producer in our club recomended not using it as it has a tendancy to pull the fur through the hide where hit and you have to dig it out. My biggest problum is finding a bullit and load for my .22-250 that will not make so big an exit hole that I have to sew it up.