Anyone Coyote hunt with the carbine?

[floydthecat]

Oh yes….I have turkey, coon, squirrels, crows, bobcats and birds. I am a practical soup-kitchen for animals.

[GotSnlB28]

I have taken a carbine coyote hunting several times with soft points but unfortunately they didn't cooperate. A few years ago turkey hunting I had one try and swipe my decoy, from about 10ft realized something was amiss and retreated.

[ssgross]

soft points but unfortunately they didn't cooperate

The PPU soft points are pretty accurate in both my carbines, and by this I mean they can ring a 10 inch gong at 100yds with some consistency.

[browningautorifle]

I never saw any shortfall with carbine ammo, at least the stuff I loaded. I loaded lead GC and the strike at 200 on steel was resounding. All I had to do was hit it...

[W5USMC]

The PPU soft points are pretty accurate in both my carbines, and by this I mean they can ring a 10 inch gong at 100yds with some consistency.

Think he is saying that the coyotes didn't cooperate, not the soft points.

[ssgross]

Think he is saying that the coyotes didn't cooperate, not the soft points.

LOL. Either way, I have noticed that carbine accuracy has little to do with ammo, when compared to the overall fitup of the stock.

[GotSnlB28]

Lol, yes I meant the coyotes didn't cooperate... Have a few different makes of SP, usually I take Israeli surplus but it all shoots just as well as FMJ.

[W5USMC]

usually I take Israeli surplus

Absolutely love those Israeli soft points!

[painter777]

It's been record breaking high temperatures here but heavy winds and rain. So I screwed down a pop up hunting blind on the dock. I have to admit a Carbine is handy in size in a pop up. Lots of leaves have dropped giving me a deeper view across river. Since the heavy winds I haven't heard any coyotes or geese. Neighbor told me they harvested the corn to the north where the geese were hanging out. Maybe they moved on? usually they'll hang around longer and feed in the stubble. Up river at the city park they had a festival that drew the ducks up that way for free treats. Still about a dozen hanging back here. One of my sighting lanes is tangled from the domino effect from a few snags blowing down. There are countless standing dead snags back there that would actually make it pretty dangerous if you were to let a few boys loose to run around in. Leaves are covering the sandy ground around the finger point so I can't see any fresh sign unless I cross the river which I don't want to disturb. I'm hunting about 3hr shifts sometimes both am and pm. Sometimes just am or pm depending on whats going on. Seems I've seen about everything but coyotes. The Deer are all over using that tall grass for bedding. Seeing Deer is common we often have them in our fenced yard wasting the Wife's plants. I think 11 is the record. The Deer I'm seeing are comfy, not acting like coyotes are around. I'll keep poking at it until it gets closer to our firearms deer opener 11-15.

But I did have something odd brought to my attention from a lady neighbor 3 doors down. At the edge of her front yard they found a large Rabbits rear leg that looked ripped from the hip joint. I looked around and couldn't find any fur or what would look like the kill site. This was a large leg like you'd get from a breeder. She also lives on the river and behind her place is a developing log jam that I can see about 1/2 of when in the pop up.

Any ideas? Coyote or Fox? No one I know of has a large dog in our area.
Am I being circled?

Sorry for late reply. Had this 3/4 done the other night and lost it

[ssgross]

found a large Rabbits rear leg that looked ripped from the hip joint.

I frequently get such things in my yard - usually in the form of squirrels, sometimes rabbits. I have a very large, tall old growth red oak and two large silver maples in the back yard. We have a lot of hawks in the area, even a few eagles. They love to bring their kill to the large boughs of my trees to eat up high. They inevitably drop some or all of the carcass, but aren't too keen on going to ground to retrieve it. I've been tempted to make a platform high in the oak to encourage a hawk or owl to make a home. They seem to be the only thing that keeps the tree rats in check. We have a pair of bald eagles that nest in a park right next to a busy regional airport less than a mile away, and have returned every year for over a decade. I'm afraid they or their offspring would move in to my backyard if I made it welcoming. The last thing I need is an army of fish and game bureaucrats monitoring my back yard.