Topic: .22 LR Coyote

[NGO]

In the back 40 about 100 yards from the back deck we see a couple yotes.

Grabbed my always loaded handy Marlin 60SS with 4x scope and head out.
circle around a berm and got with in 25 yards the bigger male had taken off but this Young female didn't get away soon enough.

Now notice shot location. Prefect heart shot. in one side and out the other

She feel over when hit, jumped up ran for 20 yards and dropped.
 By the time I walked up she was dead.


Almost 3 feet long




A very nice hide great contion and only two holes.

I am geeting better at it was able to leave just the last knuckle and claws on the skin.

The hide is thin this time of year so it will be interesting to see if the hair will stay on when I tan it.





Naked yote





I see you, too.

[egress81]

good shot especially with a .22

[NGO]

Most people underestimate what a .22lr can do. I grew up with people taking coyotes, deer, mountain lion with a .22lr. This may have been out of necessity since my granddad was too poor to shot anything else.
He had single load bolt action .22lr. That was it. You get one shot.
 Of course a big part of hunting was getting close enough to your game to kill it with a .22lr

I am not really impressed when someone can shoot an animal from 500 yards, but if you can sneak up on a deer and shoot from 10 yards or less than you have done something. ( Yes I have a 30-06 that I have shot taken a deer from 400 yards) Or the one lion I saw grandpa take from about 20 yards. We kids were the distraction while he came from the back side.

We saw the lion about 200 yards away in a tree line, we were to walk and stop and play about 50 yards from the lion, Grandpa stuck up from behind and put a single .22 into the back of it's skull and broke the neck were it joins the skull. Cat dropped like a rock right were it was sitting.

I have seen him take deer and growing up a .22 was all we would every use on Coyotes or stray dogs.


Shot placement is what counts.

[pv74]

I would not risk shooting a mountain lion with a .22 if I didn't have to. Killing Mountain Lion with a .22 is, believe it or not, legal in Idaho ( I imagine this has a lot to do with minimizing pelt damage). Hunting all other big game animals in Idaho with a .22 is illegal however and for good reason.  The posibility of cripling and wounding your quarry exists even with the most proven big game cartridges. However, that posibility increases even moreso with a .22LR.

I will stick with my 30-06, it is enough gun for any game in Idaho.


I would guess that a .22 LR would be dead minimum for a coyote...they are not that big of an animal.

[NGO]

Wasn't talking about what is legal but what is do able.  Trust me on an Indian reservation in the early 70's their were no Game and Wildlife rangers. Even today they are far and few in between most likely to be found in headquarters sitting on their butts.
Back then it wasn't poaching it was dinner and food for those people.

A 30-06 is overkill for most North American game except Large elks, Moose and large bears.

A 30-30 will take and  deer and Elk just fine. That's what I started using when I was 15.

A 22-250 will knock down a Antelope and deer in it's tracks also. So will a .223

Just saying that if you have SHTF situation you can use a .22lr for more than squirrels. But you better be able to place your shots. IF you can do that you won't go hungry.

I would be saving the .223 and large weapons for two footed intruders and not deer.

[Nomad]

 Shot placement is the answer..22 LR or a gut shot 300 win..