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Mrs Wiley Down (Graphic Pictures)

Unread postby backstraps » Wed Jun 04, 2014 10:36 am

I worked on several loads through late winter and was able to range test many of the loads. I had a particular load that I was hoping to try out on a coyote 300-500 yards.

I found a couple Saturday while out scouting summer browse.

I setup Sunday evening with glass to observe and take notes. Yesterday evening I got settled in a little early. I began a sequence of calls and on the second run, I had a blonde female charge into the back of a field. She was on the tip of a hill that didn't allow me to take a 600+ yard shot.

After I stopped calling to watch her reaction, she bedded down and was watching the hillside towards me. I gave that 10 minutes and called to her again. She got up and began across the top of the ridge line, still not giving me a safe firing direction. I ranged her the last spot before she went into a pine woodlot at 472yds.

I was fearing she was getting close to my scent stream blowing towards her so I setup prone and began watching the pine lot edge. She came out in the "coyote skip" I ranged her as she was going away at 358yds, got back on the scope and settled the reticle just as she stopped and turned to look my direction.

Squeezed off and she dropped instantly.

I got on the four wheeler and drove to her. The load I built was devastating to the coyote, as she never knew what hit her.

Using a Savage Weather Warrior chambered in a .308
Zeiss 3.5-10x44 RZ800 scope
Harris Bipods
Lake City Match brass, Win Mag Primer, Hornady 110gr VMAX, and Hodgdon Varget, chronographed at 3472fps

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This is the farm I was hunting at. The vacant old farm house is where I shot from....back right corner. I am standing at coyote, the pine lot is to the right of this picture.

Fun hunt. There are two red dogs I got pictures of hoping to get them down next!


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Unread postby Crazinamatese » Wed Jun 04, 2014 12:06 pm

Thats good shooting. :mrgreen:
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:mrgreen:
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Unread postby Jackson Marsh » Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:14 pm

Crazinamatese wrote:Thats good shooting. :mrgreen:



X2! Great shot! :clap:

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Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Wed Jun 04, 2014 10:58 pm

8-)
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:mrgreen:
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Re: Mrs Wiley Down (Graphic Pictures)

Unread postby fauxfly » Thu Jun 05, 2014 12:21 am

358 yards - - you da man!!

Nice set-up -

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Unread postby BigHills BuckHunter » Thu Jun 05, 2014 12:26 am

Sniper!

Great shot!
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Re: Mrs Wiley Down (Graphic Pictures)

Unread postby hunter_mike » Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:09 am

Looks like fun! :clap:
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Re: Mrs Wiley Down (Graphic Pictures)

Unread postby backstraps » Thu Jun 05, 2014 3:06 am

I enjoy it. I have a load built for 600-800 yards I want to try, but its hard to find them that far away :)

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