Lee Loader

Very foggy this morning. Taking care of chores at about 8 am with 3 young deer at house feeder. I notice a mature coyote coming in downwind of them about 200 yards out, up a pole-line that provides service to my house. Based on his behavior, I feel that there is at least one other coming up through the brush behind the feeder as a flanking force on the deer's only escape route.

Unlucky for the coyote, my SMLE Scout is ready to go just inside my reloading room door. I shout, standing off-hand and wasn't really sure if I would connect given I haven't been shooting a lot as of late. He dropped like a rock when the PPU 180-grain SPBT struck him square in the chest (he was head on to me). I took the range finder with me to bounce it off the door of my garage; 151-yards!

Off hand shot ~ 151 yards ~ Blood pumping with adrenaline ~ Dead center.
Not too shabby, my friend.

He sure looks like he WAS healthy.

Tom Myers wrote:Off hand shot ~ 151 yards ~ Blood pumping with adrenaline ~ Dead center.
Not too shabby, my friend.

Or the blind squirrel factor!

GasGuzzler wrote:He sure looks like he WAS healthy.

I feed them a lot of feral hogs, this fellow got greedy!

Yep, those are some really clean, white teeth. No doubt he was on a good diet.

jd

Nice shot and the best kind of coyote.

Make smoke,

So, what do you do with them after you pop one? Bury it so it don't stink up the place or is there a market for the pelt? I recently found out we have them on the family property up in Allen parish so we might just be taking a few of them out.

Kind of overkill ain't it ? Coming from a guy that killed one with 1475 fps 1-1/16oz load of steel Bs capable of putting all 105 pellets in her inside 35 yd , 60 or so out where I hit her .

Well done .

az2vet wrote:So, what do you do with them after you pop one? Bury it so it don't stink up the place or is there a market for the pelt? I recently found out we have them on the family property up in Allen parish so we might just be taking a few of them out.

This was the nicest pelt I've seen, but like the others, tossed to the buzzards.

RBHarter wrote:Kind of overkill ain't it ? Coming from a guy that killed one with 1475 fps 1-1/16oz load of steel Bs capable of putting all 105 pellets in her inside 35 yd , 60 or so out where I hit her .

Well done .

You're right, no such thing as overkill. Fawning starts in three months. I saw another yesterday, but it was across the fence. It was closer to what I normally see. Willie E. Coyote, maingy.

Nice work!
The coyotes are really getting bad around here in southern Ohio too.