Eastern N.Y.Coyote shot w/110 .243

This is the coyote I shot today at 83 yards in the State land woods. I used my Savage 110 .243 topped off with a bushnell 3-9x scope, nothing fancy but it is one of my favorite rifles because I have taken a lot of small game and big animals with it as well as big and small varmints.

I used 80 gr. Federal blue box which I knew would be a bit too much but that's the factory round that my gun shoots MOA or better. This ammo put a baseball size exit hole through the shoulder region.


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even if it blows the dog up i still strip, tan and keep the tail. i have a tail board in my office, long, fancy routed and stained and every dog i get that fur is not good on i put the tail up there on the board. looks pretty cool and every time someone comes in the count to see if the number has changed.

NICE !!!

Two yrs ago I shot a dog that was approaching my just shot deer. I believe he was trailing the doe + 2 fawns. I shot mom and she dropped right there. I sat still cause my son was only 75 yds away. Along comes dog. I thought-might as well do him too. No exit hole-243-95 gr Nosler at about 65 yds.

wow no exit? did you happen to cut him open to see what kind of expansion or explosion was inside (depending on sons age you may not have done that) those nosler partitions are amazing although i have always had some type of exit wound just due to the energy pushing those petals through the animal (coyote only, i don't hunt anything bigger than a mountain lion so i don't know how they do on deer, etc) i would think that at 65 yards the bullet would not have slowed down enough to expand, but it could have hit bone first...to many variables, but nice shot, good story.

langenc, I can't believe that the nosler didn't make it through that dog either! I bet it passed right through without getting a chance to expand. I shot a lot of woodchucks with my .308 using the 168 SMK and there was just a .30 cal exit hole, but the soft lead tip bullets would really rip em open wide.

In 35 years, I have NEVER met a coyote that could win in an arguement with a .243 Winchester!!!


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