What is your favorite predator CALLING scope power, your usual shot distance and the type of terrain do you hunt?
I hunt out in the west but I like to call I thicker cover, pockets in tall sage, mesquite thickets, and treed ridges. Most of my shots are under 100 yards, many inside 20 yards. I like to shoot combo guns(shotgun/rifle 12ga/5.56x50R Mag 12ga/22 Sav Highpower and shotgun/shotgun/rifle 16ga/16ga/6.5x58R) when the cover is really tight and my go to scopes are 1-4x20mm, on 1x the FOV is huge, target acquisition is fast, I've killed ducks and pheasants with the shotgun barrel returning from a stand and 4x makes for a pretty easy 200 yard shot on a coyote if needed but rarely do they ever get off 1x.
When the country is a little more open with shot range out there a little further my bolt actions(20P/222Rem/22-204/6.5G) wear 1.5-6x40mm scope, just a slight reduction of FOV and a little more power on the top end. Even in this type of country I find myself trying to stay closer or in any available cover as it seems to me it is easier to get coyotes to come in if they don't have to expose themselves.
I do have a couple 22-250's that I set up for really open country with 2.5-8/10x40mm scopes. I rarely take them out and the couple times I have my kills have been around 20 yards, I've never taken them off 2.5x to kill a coyote. You know how it is your in a big open country, you know you'll be able to see one coming a mile away and the coyote you call in sneaks all the way into the caller in tiny crease in the terrain and pops up right at the caller.
I hunt out in the west but I like to call I thicker cover, pockets in tall sage, mesquite thickets, and treed ridges. Most of my shots are under 100 yards, many inside 20 yards. I like to shoot combo guns(shotgun/rifle 12ga/5.56x50R Mag 12ga/22 Sav Highpower and shotgun/shotgun/rifle 16ga/16ga/6.5x58R) when the cover is really tight and my go to scopes are 1-4x20mm, on 1x the FOV is huge, target acquisition is fast, I've killed ducks and pheasants with the shotgun barrel returning from a stand and 4x makes for a pretty easy 200 yard shot on a coyote if needed but rarely do they ever get off 1x.
When the country is a little more open with shot range out there a little further my bolt actions(20P/222Rem/22-204/6.5G) wear 1.5-6x40mm scope, just a slight reduction of FOV and a little more power on the top end. Even in this type of country I find myself trying to stay closer or in any available cover as it seems to me it is easier to get coyotes to come in if they don't have to expose themselves.
I do have a couple 22-250's that I set up for really open country with 2.5-8/10x40mm scopes. I rarely take them out and the couple times I have my kills have been around 20 yards, I've never taken them off 2.5x to kill a coyote. You know how it is your in a big open country, you know you'll be able to see one coming a mile away and the coyote you call in sneaks all the way into the caller in tiny crease in the terrain and pops up right at the caller.