Sometimes the coyote wins

[yotehater]

I gave a coyote a lesson on feral hog dining. He was leaving after a midday meal and in quite a hurry. I guess he saw me from my front porch. So I was rushing to take the shot before he disappeared behind a big tree. I couldn't find a speck of blood and went looking for a small twig or vine shot. The follow through went right into a darned hackberry tree on the fence line 50 yards away. It's the first small tree left of the big oak.



No wonder I couldn't find any blood. It never exited. Just dislodged some of the bark. I was a little surprised in the 6mm AR with the 70 gr Sierra HPBT. Another educated yote.

 

[okie]

watch out ---I have trees jump in front of my bullets too. Keep an eye out for rocks and fences as well...

 

[AWS]

Remember it wasn't a win until he outlives you , just a reprieve.

 

[chutem]

Man, that's a bummer! Been there. For sure, just a reprieve for the yote.

 

[K22]

Anyone who says they never miss doesn't hunt much. It happens to all of us that hunt a lot.

This summer I had a beautiful shot opportunity at a monster ground hog. He's at 238 yards, crawler in pasture field with low hay. It's a perfect profile shot, one I've made hundreds of times even off my shooting cross sticks. Well I missed - fortunately a clean miss. Never saw him again the rest of the summer. Still think about that miss - can't let go of it.

Later that evening I make a more difficult shot at 247 yardson a crawler with a slightly obscured profile due to higher hay in another field. Go figure?


PS: I was shooting my 223 Rem with a custom 26" Douglas Match heavy varmint barrel on a Rem 700 action. The rifle is a sub 1/4 moa rifle with my tailored reloads. Sometimes you're the pigeon and sometimes you're the stature - I was the stature on this day and got s*** on by that ghog.

 

[spitfire_er]

I took a shot a few years ago on a deer about 60 yards away while walking through semi-thick willow brush. Was a fairly clear shot, but when I shot and nothing happened I was perplexed. Thought it was a good shot, deer ran off. I walked over to where the deer was standing, and saw 3 or 4 sheered off willows. The interesting part was it hit the first twig assuming directly in front of the deer, straight path to the next willow, third one, I could see a 30 to 40 degree deflection down to the next willow. These were about the same size as the bullet, so just bad luck. 1/4" to ether side I would have had dinner.

 

[Immike]

Took a buddy hunting once and he shot a tree dead center right in front of him, I went and cut it down later and mounted it. Presentation was in front of large crowd at a match. He was so proud of it!