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When y'all shoot your coyotes, are you taking a close look at them to see what sort of condition they are in? Just curious. I seem to be shooting a goodly % of coyotes that are in distress. This first coyote last night had several sores on her and had a swollen elbow with open sores or wounds on it that exposed the underlying muscle and connective tissue. This seems to be the cause of her limp.
In the video, she is a bit hard to see. This isn't because of high humidity, distance, or lack of optics, but because she is mostly occluded by vegetation.
I made a headshot on this coyote, the hard way. The shot entered the left side along the lower thoracic vertebrae, breaking the spinal column in two and exiting the right side. The coyote was severely quartered away at the time and had turned her head such that the exiting bullet traveled forward and into the side of her face. The entry into the face was quite large, as you can see in the video. So by that point, the bullet was well expanded and/or fragmented.
I made an equally good shot with the second coyote. You can see in the slow motion how steady I was (new tripod helped!), the lack of flinch, and also the lack of timing, the coyote taking off just before the shot. The quarter second delay plus 0.1 second flight time was more than the enough for the coyote to be completely out of the way of the bullet by the time it arrived. It was a quick event, but I knew I was in a sendero situation and I should have been more ready. So the coyote got educated and I got schooled.
When y'all shoot your coyotes, are you taking a close look at them to see what sort of condition they are in? Just curious. I seem to be shooting a goodly % of coyotes that are in distress. This first coyote last night had several sores on her and had a swollen elbow with open sores or wounds on it that exposed the underlying muscle and connective tissue. This seems to be the cause of her limp.
In the video, she is a bit hard to see. This isn't because of high humidity, distance, or lack of optics, but because she is mostly occluded by vegetation.
I made a headshot on this coyote, the hard way. The shot entered the left side along the lower thoracic vertebrae, breaking the spinal column in two and exiting the right side. The coyote was severely quartered away at the time and had turned her head such that the exiting bullet traveled forward and into the side of her face. The entry into the face was quite large, as you can see in the video. So by that point, the bullet was well expanded and/or fragmented.
I made an equally good shot with the second coyote. You can see in the slow motion how steady I was (new tripod helped!), the lack of flinch, and also the lack of timing, the coyote taking off just before the shot. The quarter second delay plus 0.1 second flight time was more than the enough for the coyote to be completely out of the way of the bullet by the time it arrived. It was a quick event, but I knew I was in a sendero situation and I should have been more ready. So the coyote got educated and I got schooled.
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