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Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405039
02/07/16 07:05 AM
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Love my .220 Swift...it kills em dead...sometimes a little too dead. ..but it is a great round...imho


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Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405169
02/07/16 10:20 AM
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would your swift do less damage with a 52 gr hollow point? what bullet do you use?

Re: Coyote shooters [Re: Tactical.20] #5405193
02/07/16 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted By: Tactical.20
would your swift do less damage with a 52 gr hollow point? what bullet do you use?


When I ran the swift I had alright luck with the speed 52 grain hollowpoint. The one that has a bucket sized hollowpoint

Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405355
02/07/16 12:19 PM
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Why not a .30-06 with 180gr ball ammo ? That's what my dad swore by. I'm still working up a 90gr solid load for my .6mm Remington and a heavier load than a 90gr bullet for the .25-06
Allan


Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405361
02/07/16 12:23 PM
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I carry a 25-06 in ruger #1, and its an accurate round with 90grn hp, but I havent shot a coyote with it yet. I predict some fur damage with that round.


"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405566
02/07/16 02:54 PM
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guy in town used to like 25-06

Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405609
02/07/16 03:29 PM
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My 270 with 130 grain sierra boat tails (gameking) leaves a 4-5 inch tear to sew up.


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Re: Coyote shooters [Re: danny clifton] #5405629
02/07/16 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted By: danny clifton
My 270 with 130 grain sierra boat tails (gameking) leaves a 4-5 inch tear to sew up.
Dang, danny. I can barely sew a button back on.


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Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405630
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Who am I kidding. I can't even do that.


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Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405850
02/07/16 05:48 PM
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Funny things, I can only see coyotes when I dont have a gun along.

I put on reading glasses when I sew up a hide.


"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405880
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As long as it shoots 1MOA @ 100yrds it's good to 400-500 barely. You guys stating 4 1/2" kill zone. Should be 450 yards, if you shoot 1 MOA at 100. 3/4" MOA be better.


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Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405931
02/07/16 06:34 PM
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Actually 1 moa should be 5 inches at 500 yds. If your gun is sighted in your group should be centered roughly on point of aim. This would make hits within roughly 2 1/2 inches of point of aim, making your effective range considerably further. Theoretically.

Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405938
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500 yard shots are another world, you need to range them, figure drop or hold, then the rifle must be level, and I can tell you without a level on your rifle you will be basically wasteing ammo, a 5 degree cant will cause a miss on targets up to bigger than deer sized at that range, I would really want 1/4 moa accuracy from a 500 yard coyote rifle.
RR

Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405952
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If you can't tell if your rifle is level within a heck of a lot closer than 5 degrees without a level, then yes that coyote is out of range.

Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405962
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you can't, will guarantee it, been doing the long range stuff since the mid 90's, put a level on your rifle and experiment, hold your rifle where you think its level, then check the level, have tried that experiment hundreds of times. all my long range rigs have a level on the scope base.
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Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405984
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At 400 yards a coyote aint very big. Got a little breeze going on. Got a few grass stems higher than the rest. Maybe a yucca stalk. Shooting from sticks your knees or a bipod. 400 yards is a long ways. We've all done it but it sure aint a sure thing. Used to hear guys claim they could shoot rabbits on the run, consistently, with 22 shorts. The guys that said they could were about 20 to 1 for the guys that could. Lots and lots and lots of rifles that can do it.


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Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5405993
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Well if a guy was just wanting to kill them a 300 mag or 7 mag with an explosive bullet would work good. Flat shooting and will blow them up to counteract bad hits.

Saving fur I love my 22-250 for coyotes

Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5406006
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I don't believe 1 guy in 100 can hit coyotes consistently at 500 yds. I also don't believe that a rifle has to shoot 1/4 moa to do it.

Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5406035
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500 with a properly set up rifle is pretty much a chipshot, have taken crows that far, deer at over a grand, coyotes are not that common here so I haven't broken 500 on them yet. it doesn't have to but the better it shoots the easier it is, so you have a 1/2 moa rifle, the best you can hope for is to hit a 2.5" circle at 500 if everything is perfect, but you wobble the end of the muzzle just less than .007" yep 7 thousandths you just missed by another 5+ inches, now your 7.5" off POA, and 1/2 mph wind, your now off 8"+ so how easy is it?
RR

Re: Coyote shooters [Re: USMC47 🦫] #5406054
02/07/16 08:07 PM
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Shoot. I can hit a torso sized object consistently at t00yds with open sights. I sure hope to heck I can do even better with a better round and quality glass.


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