70 Replies to “Faster Than A Speeding Bullet”

  1. So. Isn’t killing the slower and weaker coyotes evolution in action? Isn’t that what happens naturally? Maybe we should go after the “environmental groups”. They are also slower and weaker.

  2. Coyotes are rarely solo.
    The one you see is only the one you see.
    I’ve seen a coyote stand at the top of a hill or rise in the terrain and give yips out to a hunter or hunters moving through the tall prairie grass to triangulate the hunter/hunters on a target.
    (the target being my dogs)
    I recognized this threat and moved quickly toward my dogs while calling them back.
    Shazzam! Out pops a large male coyote almost as big as a German Shepard and it did a few bounds toward my dogs before it turned because I was going out to meet them, and it apparently.
    This was in Calgary at Nose Creek Park while it was still a Provincial Park.
    (used to be Circle 8 Speed Way near Buffalo Rock)

  4. “Kill all wildlife.Poison everything. Even ravens,crows, birds, all insects.Kill them all. It’s rural sask god given right to do that.”
    This was MY favourite comment from the CBC site.
    Don’t you Saskabushers feel bad, we BC’ers are as relentlessly bloodthirsty as you,there’s nary a wild animal to be seen anywhere out here either!
    btw, just HOW exactly did you guys kill off all the insects?

  5. I’ve been wondering, if there were 18,000 coyotes, killed for their pelts, in SK, where did all that fur go? I’d like a coyote parka, but haven’t seen one for sale, in years.
    If the demand for fur were to increase, the population would decrease, fairly quickly. With a cooling trend looming, fur might be back in fashion.

  8. It’s all about price per bullet. Traditional calibers such as .223, ,243, and the like, will cost you a fraction of the price of most exotic calibers. And, they get the job done. More tactical rifles are chambered for .308, and .223, than any other calibers.
    You could actually save money, by buying a 30-06 to shoot coyotes, and have no worries about one getting away. Then, if a bear joins the battle, you’re covered.

  9. Just so I understand this – you mean there are Wileys out there that can actually outrun a .17 calibur bullet?
    I want to meet that critter and shake his paw (his maw too).

  10. dp, I think they get about $25 dollars a pelt on the market. Don’t quote me though. Could just be coffee shop talk. If true, that would make about $40 in total.

  12. Coyotes are very resilliant critters, and my experience has been that they often shrug off .22 cal rounds and will run a very long distance before dropping. I realize people often choose varmit calibers in order to better preserve the pelt, but I prefer something bigger.
    .300 win mag is what in my inventory, so its what gets used. Overkill? Maybe, but I’m not very fond of the term overkill anyway.

  13. hudson duster
    Its quite Easy to tag Easterners. Like you, their arrogance salted with ignorance is too plain to miss. BC folks too are easy. You all read from the same red book. The elitists anyway.
    My agenda is for animals not to suffer. To keep disease & ruined crops that feed people. You know those individuals who don’t have food? Yours by your own words seem to be personnel of animals for self .Appreciation for self, while convincing yourself your seeing nature.
    Meanwhile bleeding hearts like you force wild animals to duffer. Kind of like making DDT illegal with another ecological falsehood to kill 85 million Africans. All for their good of course.
    Just by your obsession with others writing betrays your Bureaucratic soul. If not your attitude to dominate though attack. So does your manner your utter shallowness.
    Happy trails.

  14. Junker, I assume you’re a reloader,so, try 150 grain FMJ’s in your .300 Win. Mag., they won’t do any damage to the pelt at all, and there’ll be no slinking away! Should get a MV of over 3000 FPS with fairly low loads.
    Cheap,too, I paid $21.95 for 100 PRVI’s.

  15. dp
    While I readilly recognize the advantage of the 308/7.62 or 300 Win Mag in their ability to reach out and touch Wiley….here in Ontario we have other considerations.
    1) Statutes which forbid hunting use of anything bigger than .270 (.277 caliber)south of Parry Sound.
    2) The grim reality of a denser population….hence restrictions on 12 ga slugs as well as rifle calibers bigger than .277 diameter.
    3) .222, 223, 243 have adequate terminal energy and don’t tend to carry so far and don’t bounce much. .22 rimfire isn’t effective against goundhogs without mushrooms.
    For example a 7.62 at a 60 degree angle can carry nearly 3 miles—-a .222 or .223 a bit over a mile if you are lucky.

  16. Try 6.5 mm Swede. The bullets can be expensive if you don’t reload or shop around, but I’m petty sure that’s less than .277. Don’t know the mv but the 140 gr bullets shoot very flat and a surplus Swedish Mauser is very accurate and reletivly cheap, fun too.

  17. Have to second the vote on the 6.5 1896 Swedish Mauser, own three of them, excellent flat shooting rifle, especially the military long barrelled one!
    Hand loaded 90 grains HP would be the ticket for Wile E. and friends.

  18. I’ve never shot a coyote…but wouldn’t a .22 WMR (or .17 HMR) be sufficient for dispensing with one?

  19. Fred- When you put aside some of the tall tales, the truth is, people rarely get closer than about 100 meters, to a coyote. They know better than to approach someone who’s exhibiting a predatory attitude, which goes hand in hand with holding a weapon. A .22 is getting a little shaky at 100 meters.
    Prairie coyotes are even more skittish. They scram every time a vehicle stops, because they know a rifle may be in the process of being loaded. About 300 meters is as close as you get.

  20. Dp has a point.
    Most encounters exceed 100 meters.
    My close range encounter…..while becoming more frequent is still an anomolly generally…statistically insignifigant but a serious consideration.
    There is a .17 centre fire next door.
    Lotsa noise but I have never seen anything so susceptable to thermal layers and cross winds.
    rule of thumb:
    .222 is king out to about 100 meters.
    over 100 meters the heavier bullets take over…usually the .30 calibers.
    6mm and .243 are rough equivalents.
    Personal experience—-the 7mm mag lacks the power of the 300 Win mag but with same weight of bullet is much more accurate. I have driven tacks at 100 meters.

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