Edgun Matador's First Coyote

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wyshadow

wyshadow

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Just got him few hours ago. I was actually hunting prairie dogs when this big male coyote wanted to get the same pdog I was trying to shoot at.


I was waiting for a pdog to fully come out of a hole at 75 yards. The pdog would just show me a eye then duck back down the hole. I sat along a fence line looking through the scope when out of the corner of my left eye, I see this coyote also creeping in on the same pdog. The coyote quickly went after the pdog but of course the pdog went down the hole. After the coyote messed, it started slowly trotting by. I let out a bark to stopped him and let a pellet hit him in the chest. He flopped down and surprisingly he didn't make a noise. I got up and started walking towards him. When I got within 30 yards, he jumped up and ran 50 yards and fell over. I quickly lined up on this head and put another pellet just behind the eye. I'm really surprised he didn't make any noise the hold time.




He's a big guy. About 40 or 45 pounds.
 
I got up early this morning to skin the coyote and was able to recover three of the four pellets.
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The next two pictures were taken at the coyote at 75 yards.
This shot hit the spine and almost came out the other side.
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This appears to be a lung shot. Enter the side of the chest and almost came out the opposite leg.
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This shot was about 40 yards.
The pellet entered on the bottom left eye, came out the bottom of the month, and then entered the neck.
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The pellet on the left was taken out of the leg but I don't remember which two on the right came out of the coyote
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I was wondering when this was going to come up. Someone will always criticized someone else's shot placement. If someone posted their EBR targets, I'm sure someone will say "Wouldnt a bullseye be better then a 9 you got?"
LabGuy
Yes, you are correct. A head shot would be better but I chooses a heart/lung shot under a windy condition I was in, 75 yards distance, and the adrenaline rush to see an unexpected coyote show up. I chose the area of the coyote that gave me a bigger target to hit.
 
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