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Offline E Rex B

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.223 Handi takes close coyote
« on: November 14, 2006, 10:04:03 AM »
Carried my Handi on the tractor last week picking corn.  When I saw the coyote he was about 20 yards away looking the other way.  They aren't afraid of farm machinery so I steped out of the cab and found him in the scope which I had set at 7x, didn't want to take any more time than I had to so when the scope filled with hair I shot.  No complaints from me or the coyote either one.
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Re: .223 Handi takes close coyote
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2006, 10:19:21 AM »
Great!! Many, many years ago I was raking hay and a coyote was following behind to catch mice as they were distrubed. I had my 303 British on the A/Cs seat for just such a case. As I stopped the tractor, he stopped, and I shot. You are right about them getting used to the farm equipment. Works great. Do another one!!
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Re: .223 Handi takes close coyote
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2006, 04:01:40 AM »
good for you !! i haven't been in a tractor for about 25 years..."but" i bet the handi makes a great tractor gun !!
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Re: .223 Handi takes close coyote
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2006, 04:13:48 AM »
That's great!!! We know the .223 Handi works well for long range coyotes, now we know it works well if we can ever get up close to them also!!! Congratulations....<><.... :)
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Re: .223 Handi takes close coyote
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2006, 05:01:24 AM »
COYOTES LOVE TRACTORS!!!!! I've taken more coyotes off the tractor than any other way of hunting. I have literally had coyotes follow me around the field trotting along side the baler while I bale hay and get mice as they run out of the windrows. For years I have always kept my 12ga. pardner shotgun on the tractor with me, but last year I was raking hay in a fairly large field when I saw a young doe come running out of a hedgerow with three large coyotes hot on her heels, they split up and one drove the doe right into the other two. The larger of the two grabbed the doe by the neck and walked off dragging her along. I fired a couple of shots out of the shotgun to try and scare them off because they were out of range and it all happened so quick I couldn't get in range, but they could care less about me or the shots going off. Needless to say I bring my handi 22-250 on the tractor with me now.
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Re: .223 Handi takes close coyote
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2006, 07:00:51 AM »
The same is true with whitetail deer and (logging) skidders, especially in the middle of winter when the snow is 3 to 6 feet deep, Deer will come out to the sound of chainsaws and skidders and actually follow along behind the skidders eating tips and left over leaves off the tree tops as they are being dragged along the twitch roads....<><.... :)
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