Sixgun coyote

[Lefty SRH]

My sixgun coyote happened this morning. I was actually deer hunting in my stand on my place behind the house. I decided to pack just a single call while laying out clothes last night, the call was a Carver Rabid rabbit. I decided to shift gears and get away from deer hunting. So I pulled the little Carver call out of my pocket. Gave it a nice simple short sequence and put it back in my pocket. She responded to the call Id say within 5 minutes so she had to be close. With the ground being soaking wet from recent rain and the CONSTANT ringing in my ears I have to wonder how I heard her come in, but I did. I reached and skinned my sixgun from my chest rig and took aim. As she stopped I thumbed the hammer, and focused on the front sight. She moved again going to some minor cover, thorns and twigs and such. She took two more steps, stopped and I broke the shot! I saw her fall, get back up and I thumbed the hammer again preparing to take a moving shot. But it wasnt necessary, she was down!
The shot was 40-45yds with a Ruger Bisley Blackhawk Flat top in 44spl. The boolit (bullet) is a 245gr penta hollow point I cast. It was pushed by a healthy dose of H110 with a magnum spark plug.
Ive been wanting this for a while and it finally happened! Not exactly the way I saw or planned but nonetheless I got it done. To me it was a little special, it was on my place, with a boolit I cast and loaded, with the handgun I took my first deer with that too was on my property, just 6yrs later.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190107/491ffef2cf19ab6532a79478cc29526d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190107/8c5a41e99c28dc6338ba66fc1e2f4e55.jpg


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[Larry Gibson]

Awesome......indeed!

[CastingFool]

Good job!

[Brad Cayton]

Mighty fine!!!!

[Chainsaw.]

The best kind of coyote.

[sparky45]

Great story!! Us Lefties have to stick together..

[Lefty SRH]

Great story!! Us Lefties have to stick together..

Hahaha, yep.....do you have any holsters you wanna part with? Lol

[Brad Phillips]

Good job, and a fine trophy !

[skeettx]

WOOF! Well done :)

[Rattlesnake Charlie]

Good sized yote for the east. Congratulations!

[sparky45]

I'll have to look em over. Certainly don't have any that would fit well with a six shooter though.

[tigweldit]

Very impressive! Congratulations on putting it all together.

[richhodg66]

Coyotes are tough to get the drop on, and with a handgun. Congratulations! The only good coyote is a dead one.

[Wolfer]

While I’ve shot at several coyotes with a six gun and wounded a couple I’ve only killed two that I retrieved.
For me they are truly a trophy. Congratulations!

[DeputyDuke]

Good story, good job. Coyotes are skittish and not a very big target.

[white eagle]

what a great day
thanks for sharing

[DougGuy]

Great story! How hard you think it was pushing the Bisley Flattop to launch that?

Those are medium framed guns, slightly smaller than the full size models, but can safely take the 44 to 25,000psi, and the medium framed 45 is good to 23,000psi (thinner cylinder walls). I can get a 250gr LBT WFN-GC to 1200fps with 21.5gr H110 in 45 Schofield brass, and still keep it a tad under 23,000psi.

[Lefty SRH]

Not sure of the pressure Doug. My velocity is in the 1150fps area

[Lefty SRH]

My old load was 17.0gr of H110 and I always had a smidge of dark yellow unburned powder. The new load is 18.5gr H110 and its a lot cleaner.

[Ramjet-SS]

Fantastic story and great shooting.

[DougGuy]

Let me have the LOA of the boolit, and the seating depth, and LOA of the loaded round. Curious.

[DougGuy]

Let me have the LOA of the boolit, and the seating depth, and LOA of the loaded round. Curious.

If I use one of the 44 devastator boolits, LOA is .686" .410" from nose to crimp groove, .276" from crimp groove to base, so my seating depth is .276" with case length given as 1.153" and cartridge length as 1.563" overall. Of course since there are no +P specs for 44 special, QL gives the necessary warnings about over pressure.

http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/DougGuy/QuickLoad/44%20Special%202019-01-07%2021-56-20_zpsgsgnpzv0.jpg (http://s1202.photobucket.com/user/DougGuy/media/QuickLoad/44%20Special%202019-01-07%2021-56-20_zpsgsgnpzv0.jpg.html)

Also, it looks as if the 17.0gr charge of H110 may be well below the recommended starting weight for this caliber/boolit combo. H110 likes a HIGH load density in the case, most published sources show the minimum case fill for H110 as 73% with strong recommendations not to download this powder below recommended starting weights. I personally try to achieve a 78% density as minimum when using H110. I would say that your 18.5gr load would qualify as a safe starting load, and you may find a sweet spot with this load in the 20.0gr ~ 20.5gr range. Do not extrapolate any data I posted without verifying A.) seating depth, and B.) boolit weight are close, seating depth being CRITICAL in using both QL and published loading manuals for load development.

[Messy bear]

Good job on the yote! They are always a challenge with sixgun. When you get one its always a trophy!

[Loudenboomer]

Nice! It's good to thin out those fawn eating contraptions.
I blew my chance at a 50 yd. hand gun coyote from my deer stand a few weeks ago. I was busted as he saw me reach for my 629 smith. A few days earlier another coyote was preoccupied chasing a field mouse at 300 yds. He wasn't so lucky. 257 Weatherby sure blows a big hole in a coyote! :)

[ranchman]

Coyotes are a tough target with sixguns. In the past few seasons, on pastures & between the cows, I've managed to connect on 5... lost count how many fooled me for range and got away between those though. Cagey & jumpy as the buggers are, seems a guy just never gets ideal shot presentation or ample timing on 'em. Frustrating sometimes.

Good shootin' Lefty

[DougGuy]

Ok given corrected numbers for boolit length overall and boolit seating to .368" in the case, this shows the changes from the earlier photo (which was just a guess using a popular cast boolit for example).

OAL loaded ammo is 1.555”
OAL of boolit is .770”
Base to crimp is about .360”
Nose to crimp is about .400”

http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/DougGuy/QuickLoad/44%20Special%209-01-07%2023-05-24_zpsmzdzeryd.jpg (http://s1202.photobucket.com/user/DougGuy/media/QuickLoad/44%20Special%209-01-07%2023-05-24_zpsmzdzeryd.jpg.html)

[Lefty SRH]

Wow, thats pretty newt Doug. Looks like my load is pretty spot on with Quick Load. The oressure really jumped up with my extra shank length.

[DougGuy]

Wow, thats pretty newt Doug. Looks like my load is pretty spot on with Quick Load. The oressure really jumped up with my extra shank length.

Yeah it shows a big difference in load density as well. First photo using a guessed-at load shows 73% load density with 18.04gr powder, and a seating depth of .276" and the same powder charge results in 85% load density with the seating depth now corrected to .368"

[Three44s]

Hey there fellow Lefty!

Good shooting!!

I think I am at three with my Redhawk and one with a Keltech PF-9.

The PF-9 was a case of my stock dogs rounding up a pup ote and runnng him into and under a hay rake I was near. I saw the coyote run right to me as I stood motionless. Once it was trapped I took a few brisk steps over, drew the “belly gun” and powder burnt me a coyote!

I have not encountered any with the ole 480 yet ....lol!

Best regards

Three44s

[Thumbcocker]

Here are a couple morehttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190108/787552c4c64f885e66907a1fa62d92e5.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190108/becf675a79251b9f62bdc2c961e68f9c.jpg

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[Lefty SRH]

Thumbcocker, what caliber is that Bisley?

[brass410]

long live the deer death to the yotes. nicely done sir,true pride felt when you do all the prep yourself isn't it?

[Thumbcocker]

.44 magnum

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[marshall623]

Good shooting and great story .

[smoked turkey]

Lefty SRH, you made a great shot. You even called it in. Great hunt, great story. I don't have any six shooter hunting stories for larger game to share other than squirrels. I wish I did because that really makes whatever it is a trophy no matter what it is My most recent coyote was with a 50 caliber muzzleloader while deer hunting. I called my friend who traps and asked him if he wanted it for the pelt. He said how big is the hole in the hide? I said 50 caliber. He took it anyway because it was a nice big one.

[Hogdaddy]

Great Job. Well Done ; )
H/D

[Lefty SRH]

Lefty SRH, you made a great shot. You even called it in. Great hunt, great story. I don't have any six shooter hunting stories for larger game to share other than squirrels. I wish I did because that really makes whatever it is a trophy no matter what it is My most recent coyote was with a 50 caliber muzzleloader while deer hunting. I called my friend who traps and asked him if he wanted it for the pelt. He said how big is the hole in the hide? I said 50 caliber. He took it anyway because it was a nice big one.

Coyote is our normal typical quarry. With the exception of this year I dont really deer hunt anymore. So calling is my/our typical way of getting it done. Seeing and watching them respond to my calls is always enjoyable and doesnt get old.