Chupathingy
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Wow, looks like things turned kind of ugly.
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I have a hard time understanding how anyone can, on any given day shoot a live coyote at 500...with any degree of certainty.
I left out the other distances because for me anything over 500 requires mojo, ju-ju, and a bit of voo-doo for good measure. Disclaimer, I post under my real name and location so no Internet anonymity here. Legitimate references provided on request. Now that I got that out of the way.
Here's how you pop a living coyote at 500 yards. First off, you need to have the gear required. For me that means a pocket PC running Exbal, a really good range finder, a wind meter (I use Kestrel) and I enter the relative humidity, barometric pressure, and elevation before I leave home. Also, you need to know the velocity of your ammo at temperature, you need to verify the drop from the ballistics program before hand, you must be able to correct for the drop. I use come ups instead of the reticle for elevation and I hold windage. A sub MOA rifle is also required with a spot on zero. Then there is the matter of mirage. If it's boiling all bets are off.
So, you get this really patient coyote. Range the critter multipe times (I also have the spotter range with a second Leica. You then take a wind reading. If the wind isn't almost a zero value (for me) all bets are off. Now that you have the distance nailed, little or no mirage, and a zero value wind (preferably in the form of dead calm) you run the numbers. Then dial in the required elevation and prone out with a bag or bipod under the front and another bag in the back. If you can't get the wobble zone down to minute of coyote, all bets are off. Then you whack the coyote.
Last month I was doping loads for my 7mm mag and I took a self resetting steel target along. As I moved back to verify the drop on my 7mag, I shot one round from my 22-250 at 200, 300, 400 and 500. I shot two rounds at 600 because I didn't call the first shot and I didn't here the ding. I then put the yardages on the target in Photoshop with the intent of posting the target on this site. The hits show what is possible when the yardage is known and they also show the effects of slight shifts in wind along with improper corrections in windage.
I didn't bother to post the target because I figured folks would holler BS, call me a liar, and so forth. Afterall, this is a calling forum and long range shooters are not welcome here. At times this is not a very friendly place. The target is shown below. Yeah, I know the hits are all over the place, but I think a coyote would have been in grave danger depending on which way he was facing at the time.
PS I have 20 of those resetting targets for sale if anyone is interested,
Not to shabby brother, I believe ya.
Chupa
Wow, looks like things turned kind of ugly.
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I have a hard time understanding how anyone can, on any given day shoot a live coyote at 500...with any degree of certainty.
I left out the other distances because for me anything over 500 requires mojo, ju-ju, and a bit of voo-doo for good measure. Disclaimer, I post under my real name and location so no Internet anonymity here. Legitimate references provided on request. Now that I got that out of the way.
Here's how you pop a living coyote at 500 yards. First off, you need to have the gear required. For me that means a pocket PC running Exbal, a really good range finder, a wind meter (I use Kestrel) and I enter the relative humidity, barometric pressure, and elevation before I leave home. Also, you need to know the velocity of your ammo at temperature, you need to verify the drop from the ballistics program before hand, you must be able to correct for the drop. I use come ups instead of the reticle for elevation and I hold windage. A sub MOA rifle is also required with a spot on zero. Then there is the matter of mirage. If it's boiling all bets are off.
So, you get this really patient coyote. Range the critter multipe times (I also have the spotter range with a second Leica. You then take a wind reading. If the wind isn't almost a zero value (for me) all bets are off. Now that you have the distance nailed, little or no mirage, and a zero value wind (preferably in the form of dead calm) you run the numbers. Then dial in the required elevation and prone out with a bag or bipod under the front and another bag in the back. If you can't get the wobble zone down to minute of coyote, all bets are off. Then you whack the coyote.
Last month I was doping loads for my 7mm mag and I took a self resetting steel target along. As I moved back to verify the drop on my 7mag, I shot one round from my 22-250 at 200, 300, 400 and 500. I shot two rounds at 600 because I didn't call the first shot and I didn't here the ding. I then put the yardages on the target in Photoshop with the intent of posting the target on this site. The hits show what is possible when the yardage is known and they also show the effects of slight shifts in wind along with improper corrections in windage.
I didn't bother to post the target because I figured folks would holler BS, call me a liar, and so forth. Afterall, this is a calling forum and long range shooters are not welcome here. At times this is not a very friendly place. The target is shown below. Yeah, I know the hits are all over the place, but I think a coyote would have been in grave danger depending on which way he was facing at the time.
PS I have 20 of those resetting targets for sale if anyone is interested,
Not to shabby brother, I believe ya.
Chupa