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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Choice of caliber for coyotes
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<blockquote data-quote="villagelightsmith" data-source="post: 2459219" data-attributes="member: 68421"><p>This one's on the edge of the topic, but ...</p><p>A few years ago, over on Saubier (the small caliber forum) Blaine Eddy (now gone ahead of us) wrote of killing "14 for 14 with a .14". That's 14 coyotes for 14 shots with a .14 caliber. It's a good read. As Bill Eichelberger, guru of the sub-calibers said, they are mostly a novelty round. Still, most of us shoot for fun, and (just for fun) I'd jump on a .14 Fireball, Bee or Hornet if I could find a barrel. Kept for sage rats under 150 yds, they turn the farmer's pests into "smoothies" for 'yotes & crows. I'm told they are without recoil or muzzle motion and produce neither ricochet on the farm nor hide damage on the 'yotes. The loads are tiny, so the muzzle blast is small, and those little dinker bullets produce a smaller ballistic "crack." And when the trigger-sear slips, the bullet was there a second ago. It's ... "out there."</p><p>So ... the best coyote gun is whatever you have behind the seat of your truck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="villagelightsmith, post: 2459219, member: 68421"] This one's on the edge of the topic, but ... A few years ago, over on Saubier (the small caliber forum) Blaine Eddy (now gone ahead of us) wrote of killing "14 for 14 with a .14". That's 14 coyotes for 14 shots with a .14 caliber. It's a good read. As Bill Eichelberger, guru of the sub-calibers said, they are mostly a novelty round. Still, most of us shoot for fun, and (just for fun) I'd jump on a .14 Fireball, Bee or Hornet if I could find a barrel. Kept for sage rats under 150 yds, they turn the farmer's pests into "smoothies" for 'yotes & crows. I'm told they are without recoil or muzzle motion and produce neither ricochet on the farm nor hide damage on the 'yotes. The loads are tiny, so the muzzle blast is small, and those little dinker bullets produce a smaller ballistic "crack." And when the trigger-sear slips, the bullet was there a second ago. It's ... "out there." So ... the best coyote gun is whatever you have behind the seat of your truck. [/QUOTE]
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