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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Gut shot with a solid
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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 2797543" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>I will agree that guts are denser than lungs. Lungs are just air filled moist sponges. Stomach and intestines, aside from being more material in and of themselves than lungs, will also be full of everything that dogs been eating. Especially on deer species, the stomach is full of wet grass, which does a fantastic job at slowing/stopping a bullet. </p><p></p><p>Without seeing the coyote, there is absolutely no way to know what the bullet did. In making statements, or more guesses, as to what the bullet did, one needs to be careful, as that quickly can turn into assigning terminal performance characteristics to a bullet that have no foundation ir merit. I'm not saying or believe that you are, however situations like this is how false pretenses about bullets can be made. Even if it did pencil through, the only way to know is to recover the animal. </p><p></p><p>I once shot a coyote with my 16" ar, 55 grain v-max bullets at about 250 yards. He was running, and I hit back in the guts. As someone said previously, his intestines plugged the exit, and were actually dragging on the snow. As I followed them, I didn't hardly find any blood, even in the snow, just a little yellow tint to the snow from the damp intestine. He ran about 300 yards before he finally died, I was blown away. Terminal performance is a crazy thing that often still surprises me!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 2797543, member: 87243"] I will agree that guts are denser than lungs. Lungs are just air filled moist sponges. Stomach and intestines, aside from being more material in and of themselves than lungs, will also be full of everything that dogs been eating. Especially on deer species, the stomach is full of wet grass, which does a fantastic job at slowing/stopping a bullet. Without seeing the coyote, there is absolutely no way to know what the bullet did. In making statements, or more guesses, as to what the bullet did, one needs to be careful, as that quickly can turn into assigning terminal performance characteristics to a bullet that have no foundation ir merit. I'm not saying or believe that you are, however situations like this is how false pretenses about bullets can be made. Even if it did pencil through, the only way to know is to recover the animal. I once shot a coyote with my 16" ar, 55 grain v-max bullets at about 250 yards. He was running, and I hit back in the guts. As someone said previously, his intestines plugged the exit, and were actually dragging on the snow. As I followed them, I didn't hardly find any blood, even in the snow, just a little yellow tint to the snow from the damp intestine. He ran about 300 yards before he finally died, I was blown away. Terminal performance is a crazy thing that often still surprises me! [/QUOTE]
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