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    Anyone Coyote hunt with the carbine?

    Plan to hunt anything this fall with a carbine?
    I only hunt deer with a muzzle loader locally.
    Temps are warmer than usual here so I'm going to try Coyotes.

    The ducks from upriver that usually hang around the city park uptown have dropped down and hanging behind our place. Plus the migrating Geese are feeding heavy a few hundred yards across the river on the corn. Between the two they've drawn the attention of the Coyotes who have been really active here. I can hunt them from this side but I also own a good size section across the river. We've lived here since 1985 and have never heard and seen so many coyotes.
    Hearing a Alpha that sounds like it's from a movie and scattered calls until they pack up. Hear them just about every night with a window or two partly open.
    Rivers been shallow for quite awhile and I'm finding piles of duck feathers on both sides.
    Starting to leaf blow the backyard now and finding Coyote scat in a fenced yard.
    Worth a shot its just a 125~ yard walk.
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    I think with a soft point 110 gr it should do wonders. I used to load a 30 cal lead GC bullet, 120 gr. I used a round nose top punch to take the point off and it gave excellent striking power.
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    We've had warmer weather too, and not much rain at all. Have been at this location since 1979 and Coyotes are all over the place compared to other years. See them crossing the roads from orchard to orchard or heading out of our property and across the RR tracks into a wooded area. They make quite a racket in the evening when they've caught something. Lots of cats have gone missing recently - I've got a barn cat that I feed over at the adjoining place and been worried about losing her to them. Also, have seen duck feathers along the creek that runs through our property. I've never "opened up" on any of them with anything yet, though. - Bob

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    Soon after I posted this last night I was putting my boots on out in the garage and could hear the ducks and the geese beyond them. I hadn't heard any scattered coyotes far off, which I still often do even when the ducks and geese are noisy. When I was about half way back it sounded like all H3ll broke loose. By the time I covered the other 50~yards I couldn't hear anymore water splashing, ducks or geese. But I could hear the underbrush cracking and popping. I stood at the gate looking down on the river and the low land across it with my night vision scanning for about 15 minutes, not seeing anything. The sounds were coming from the 1'0 clock from me, back maybe 30' in the high grass and twisted dead brush that gets deposited from high water. Current flows from my right to left and in this spot when the water level is low a finger comes out pointing down river to the left. Above the finger the water backs in there like a small bay that the ducks often gather in to get out of the current. Surrounding this 'Bay' is this tall grass up to 6'. With the bank across the river only being about 3' high and the tip of this 'Bay' maybe 8-10' across a Coyote could easily jump across it. It's a perfect choke point and not far from where I found the feathers.

    After cutting, clearing some lanes the other day I ran out of time to clear off the leaves and sticks from the dock, stairs and around the gate. So I didn't want to spook anything by opening the gate. I stayed scanning another 1/2 hour which was pretty much quiet now. Then while scanning one lane where I had zig zagged those reflective tags I had something at the long end of it that was walking away that would block the reflector from side to side as it moved away from me. Couldn't tell if it was a deer or coyote. I staggered them in height but never caught eyeball reflections to tell how tall, or antlers that shine on my night visions. So back to the garage and sure enough while pulling my boots off I hear the Alpha right out back........ close. In less than 6 or 7 minutes I heard others from the pack calling back. Came in and the Wife asked me if I heard that? Spent the next hour with a cup of coffee trying to hold my night vision up to my spotting scope on the dinning room table looking out back. It was after Midnight before they split up and moved deep enough in the woods that we could barely hear them.

    Today nearly 80 here, so I cleared the leaves from the steps, dock, back gate and oiled the gate hinges.
    Coyotes had scored last night. Right where I heard the noise in the brush. You could see some feathers, but mostly signs of multiple animals in what looked like Circling of the Attack / Kill site.
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    Quote Originally Posted by painter777 View Post
    Spent the next hour with a cup of coffee trying to hold my night vision up to my spotting scope on the dinning room table looking out back.
    Time for a NVG on your carbine.
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    I have taken many slightly smaller critters with the carbine. I have no doubt that even a FMJ would put it down. If it hits a bone it will open him up.

    They are cat-killers and have been known to clean-out the neighborhood feline population. Only problem with killing one is their intelligence. Can smell you a mile away and maybe hear you breath not much closer than that.
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    +1 BAR. Soft point is your answer. Like Floyd said, FMJ would do it but personally I think a soft point would ensure it
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    Quote Originally Posted by floydthecat View Post
    Only problem with killing one is their intelligence. Can smell you a mile away and maybe hear you breath not much closer than that.
    This one must have had sinus problems then.
    Don't bow hunt anymore and really was not very good at it when I did, this was likely just very lucky with a stupid coyote.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W5USMC View Post
    This one must have had sinus problems then.
    Don't bow hunt anymore and really was not very good at it when I did, this was likely just very lucky with a stupid coyote.
    Good job Wayne! I have had one creeping in on my deer food plot in broad daylight. He is not camera shy but I am yet to catch him when I am in the tree stand.

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    Got this picture on my food plot camera years ago. A case of safety in numbers or just don't be the slowest turkey?
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