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<blockquote data-quote="Reemty J" data-source="post: 2134295" data-attributes="member: 113694"><p>10-20 mph wind today, saw 4 coyotes watched one female go into a shallow draw off a canal, I watched for 1/2 an hour and knew she was still there as the white tails does and fawns that were laying above her kept looking at her. Took me a while to drive above her as she was well over a mile away, helps to have Docktor optics, 30 x 80mm binoculars, the detail they show at 1-3 miles is amazing. Took me a while to walk west in the canal, I was above her, wind was from the southwest, I got to a point where I could look over those whities and scanned the flattened bromegrass and rose bushes looking for her with no luck. I knew she was here though. Moved forward a little and a handful of whities laying right below the canal got up and trotted to the other bunch. Then she sat up and I could see her, estimated range 300, belly crawled onto the canal bank and turned scope up to 18, by then she was standing broadside looking around trying to figure out why those deer <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🦌" title="Deer :deer:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f98c.png" data-shortname=":deer:" /> were moving. I was shooting basically into the wind, put it behind her shoulder and let go, broke her off side front leg and away she went...did not know where I was, ran at me a while before she turned and headed away. She stopped once and slipped on some ice so I was aware I broke her front leg, as I assumed I missed her. I ranged her at 455 but she was going away as I lay prone watching her in the scope, I barked a few times and she finally stopped, I guessed other side of 500 yards, by now she was almost full value on wind and it was between 10-20 so I held what i guessed was 24" into the wind and used my 500 yard hash mark, at the shot I heard the whop and down she went.....I walked to her and had to shoot her once more, ranged the last shot 560 yards, I hit her back leg just below body level so she had a front and back leg broke opposite sides.......went back and ranged 1stshot ....380 not 300 so hence breaking front leg below body level. This 39 grain SBK bullet makes this 204 a 500 yard coyote gun....I have shot 48 coyotes since spring, 42 of them this winter...any time you enter the body cavity, lungs or behind the diaphragm they are dead right now.........I have read about the 35 grain Berger as a great fur bullet and I will compare that with the 39 SBK in the next thread...........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reemty J, post: 2134295, member: 113694"] 10-20 mph wind today, saw 4 coyotes watched one female go into a shallow draw off a canal, I watched for 1/2 an hour and knew she was still there as the white tails does and fawns that were laying above her kept looking at her. Took me a while to drive above her as she was well over a mile away, helps to have Docktor optics, 30 x 80mm binoculars, the detail they show at 1-3 miles is amazing. Took me a while to walk west in the canal, I was above her, wind was from the southwest, I got to a point where I could look over those whities and scanned the flattened bromegrass and rose bushes looking for her with no luck. I knew she was here though. Moved forward a little and a handful of whities laying right below the canal got up and trotted to the other bunch. Then she sat up and I could see her, estimated range 300, belly crawled onto the canal bank and turned scope up to 18, by then she was standing broadside looking around trying to figure out why those deer 🦌 were moving. I was shooting basically into the wind, put it behind her shoulder and let go, broke her off side front leg and away she went...did not know where I was, ran at me a while before she turned and headed away. She stopped once and slipped on some ice so I was aware I broke her front leg, as I assumed I missed her. I ranged her at 455 but she was going away as I lay prone watching her in the scope, I barked a few times and she finally stopped, I guessed other side of 500 yards, by now she was almost full value on wind and it was between 10-20 so I held what i guessed was 24” into the wind and used my 500 yard hash mark, at the shot I heard the whop and down she went.....I walked to her and had to shoot her once more, ranged the last shot 560 yards, I hit her back leg just below body level so she had a front and back leg broke opposite sides.......went back and ranged 1stshot ....380 not 300 so hence breaking front leg below body level. This 39 grain SBK bullet makes this 204 a 500 yard coyote gun....I have shot 48 coyotes since spring, 42 of them this winter...any time you enter the body cavity, lungs or behind the diaphragm they are dead right now.........I have read about the 35 grain Berger as a great fur bullet and I will compare that with the 39 SBK in the next thread........... [/QUOTE]
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