lol. maybe he said this as tongue in cheek also.
same guy: "I haven't actually used a 223 on coyotes in somewhere between 15 and 20 years ago, but at the time, I didn't kill a single one with a single shot. This was in a target rich environment and even though it was only over about three days of hunting, I couldn't anchor a ******* coyote to save my life. Granted, this scope was mounted on the AR handle and that created a few problems since the damned thing was either zeroed at 50 yards or 100 yards and the impact point was considerably different depending. Nowadays, with flat tops, that's not a concern but when they are moving through the brush, or you have to anticipate where they will appear in a clearing, [beeep], I must have just imagined all this, like a bad dream?
That's my opinion, get more gun, or less gun. I don't have a problem with any seventeen at moderate ranges, or something like a 204, but why keep pushing an anemic little underperforming cartridge like the 223, is beyond me? Save it for all of our experts out there. For the rest of us, it's a piece of ****."
so in a place where there were a lot of coyotes to be shot he did not kill a single coyote with only one shot with a 223. this is in 3 days of hunting.
ok, maybe he has killed more coyotes than all the rest of us combined.
but it sounds like he can not shoot as well as most of us. i would bad mouth the 223 too if my shooting skills were that bad.
to be fair, i know back in the good old days this guy did kill a lot of animals. but back in the good old days a lot of guys killed a lot of animals. even me. just think how many more this guy would of killed if he was a good shooter.