Actually I can make that statement, a rifle is an entirely different animal, if you know the gun and where it shoots you can put a small bullet in the area you want it to go. With a 410 and a few pellets, you are doing a hail Mary every time you pull the trigger hoping a pellet will hit someplace vital and ten hope the animal doesn't run off and die. I qualified 3 times a year with a 12 gage and 00 buckshot and after 30 yards even the 9 pellets in a 12 ga 2 3/4 inches spread out so that many are not in a kill zone, I also was a police firearms instructor for a conservation agency and I know the limits of buckshot. Using a 410 with buckshot for the kinds of distances most coyotes are killed at would be ill advised at best. I will not say what it would be at worst. We should all strive to kill an animal as quickly as possible, we should not use something that is essentially shoot and hope and under normal circumstances coyotes will not be within a distance where anyone would have any right to have confidence of a quick kill. I don't care if it is only a coyote. Better to stay home than make do and have as many or more woumdings than kills. Feel free to disagree if you want, this is more about doing the right thing than about ballistics. Ruark said "use enough gun" I am an enthusiastic believer in that thought process.