Wylie Coyote met his match today.

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CodyS

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I was loading my semi will a load of soybeans at about 1230 today when I looked out in my sheep pasture about 20 yards out of my farm yard there was a coyote heading towards my yard, I grabbed the 22-250 and he made the mistake of stopping to look back at me about 75 yards away. I Wonder if he was looking for the roadrunner. No roadrunners on my farm just a couple of darts and a coronet. This is the first coyote I have ever shot in the month of July, usually shoot them from October to march.

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Dang that's a mangy coyote. They must not have much to eat there. Lol if seen a few around here like that but most of them iv seen are well fed. They have put a hurt on the deer and turkeys around here.
 
And they took Elmer and Yosemite Sam's guns! :realcrazy: I watched all this stuff before school every morning as a kid, yet I never even thought about blowing anybody up, or "DOINKing" anybody in the eyes like the 3 Stooges!
 
Grabbed a .22 and took off in the '96 Dodge Dakota 4X4 across the field after a pair of coyotes I thought were threatening our calf crop. They split up on me, so I continued to follow alongside one of 'em in the pickup as he/she ran full speed ahead. Never got a shot off. However, the animal did not escape in the end. Well, he/she killed himself/herself by crossing over in front of the moving pickup and getting run over. I stopped to look over the corpse. I heard a faint, but distinct, hissing sound. During the travail across the field a tire had been punctured. I was in the "north 40", the acreage most distance from the farmhouse. I found the spare and jack were both stored where they should be; changed the tire and went home.

I had a lot of experience with BB guns and .22's on the ranch and .38 and .357 revolvers when I was a peace officer (even fired an M-16 and an MP5 once). Dad had purchased a deer rifle with a scope which I had never fired before. Two coyotes were stalking the cattle in the pasture out front of the house. I grabbed the hunting rifle and took off on foot. The coyotes began to flee down a ravine. I took a prone position from above and used the crosshairs on the scope to take a bead on one of the coyotes. I was careful to not jerk the trigger, took a slow squeeze as I placed my eye socket right up against the scope.

The recoil of the blast smashed the scope into the orbit socket of my right eye. The shock and pain were intense. Both coyotes escaped without a scratch. I ended up with a black eye. Previously, I had nailed squirrels at 100 yards using grandpa's octagon barreled pump-action Remington .22 rifle which had iron sights. Don't know how I missed the coyote with a scope. I never had used a scope before this incident, I guess one doesn't put their eye right up against the eyepiece. Never picked up that rifle again.

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the 22-250 is an awesome gun , i love mine deadly accurate out to and past 400 yards .
nice shot by the way .
 
Dang that's a mangy coyote. They must not have much to eat there. Lol if seen a few around here like that but most of them iv seen are well fed. They have put a hurt on the deer and turkeys around here.
If you think that is mangy, you should see a west river south dakota coyote. The fur buyers won't even buy them in the dead of winter they are so scuzzy.
 
Grabbed a .22 and took off in the '96 Dodge Dakota 4X4 across the field after a pair of coyotes I thought were threatening our calf crop. They split up on me, so I continued to follow alongside one of 'em in the pickup as he/she ran full speed ahead. Never got a shot off. However, the animal did not escape in the end. Well, he/she killed himself/herself by crossing over in front of the moving pickup and getting run over. I stopped to look over the corpse. I heard a faint, but distinct, hissing sound. During the travail across the field a tire had been punctured. I was in the "north 40", the acreage most distance from the farmhouse. I found the spare and jack were both stored where they should be; changed the tire and went home.

I had a lot of experience with BB guns and .22's on the ranch and .38 and .357 revolvers when I was a peace officer (even fired an M-16 and an MP5 once). Dad had purchased a deer rifle with a scope which I had never fired before. Two coyotes were stalking the cattle in the pasture out front of the house. I grabbed the hunting rifle and took off on foot. The coyotes began to flee down a ravine. I took a prone position from above and used the crosshairs on the scope to take a bead on one of the coyotes. I was careful to not jerk the trigger, took a slow squeeze as I placed my eye socket right up against the scope.

The recoil of the blast smashed the scope into the orbit socket of my right eye. The shock and pain were intense. Both coyotes escaped without a scratch. I ended up with a black eye. Previously, I had nailed squirrels at 100 yards using grandpa's octagon barreled pump-action Remington .22 rifle which had iron sights. Don't know how I missed the coyote with a scope. I never had used a scope before this incident, I guess one doesn't put their eye right up against the eyepiece. Never picked up that rifle again.

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I did something like that when I was 14, tried shooting a deer with my 300HH MAG rifle with an antique scope on it that had no pad around the eye piece. When I shot, it was too high on my shoulder and got me right between the eyes. Blood ran everywhere the whole time I was field dressing my dear. Still got the scar. Probably should of had stitched but I was out in the middle of no where.
 
Still got the scar. Probably should of had stitched but I was out in the middle of no where.

i had to stitch up the safety net on the kids trampoline the other day
so i grabbed a few feet of 12 lbs fishing line and a nice sharp hook
the entire time i was picturing myself as rambo sewing up his arm
 
Grabbed a .22 and took off in the '96 Dodge Dakota 4X4 across the field after a pair of coyotes I thought were threatening our calf crop. They split up on me, so I continued to follow alongside one of 'em in the pickup as he/she ran full speed ahead. Never got a shot off. However, the animal did not escape in the end. Well, he/she killed himself/herself by crossing over in front of the moving pickup and getting run over. I stopped to look over the corpse. I heard a faint, but distinct, hissing sound. During the travail across the field a tire had been punctured. I was in the "north 40", the acreage most distance from the farmhouse. I found the spare and jack were both stored where they should be; changed the tire and went home.

I had a lot of experience with BB guns and .22's on the ranch and .38 and .357 revolvers when I was a peace officer (even fired an M-16 and an MP5 once). Dad had purchased a deer rifle with a scope which I had never fired before. Two coyotes were stalking the cattle in the pasture out front of the house. I grabbed the hunting rifle and took off on foot. The coyotes began to flee down a ravine. I took a prone position from above and used the crosshairs on the scope to take a bead on one of the coyotes. I was careful to not jerk the trigger, took a slow squeeze as I placed my eye socket right up against the scope.

The recoil of the blast smashed the scope into the orbit socket of my right eye. The shock and pain were intense. Both coyotes escaped without a scratch. I ended up with a black eye. Previously, I had nailed squirrels at 100 yards using grandpa's octagon barreled pump-action Remington .22 rifle which had iron sights. Don't know how I missed the coyote with a scope. I never had used a scope before this incident, I guess one doesn't put their eye right up against the eyepiece. Never picked up that rifle again.

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Scopes are designed with eye relief. I mount mine forward of my eye, about the length of the bill of my cap.
 
Good shot!!! We’ve got two, free range chicken barns and last flock, we were nearly 2,000 chickens short of what we had record of, PER BARN!! So this past winter, I had a friend come trap. In 3 weeks time, we caught 24 coyotes and a fox! Gonna hit em hard again this next winter.
 
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