ATCDoktor
09-23-2020, 04:33 PM
Was out doing some woods bumming this morning with my Chiappa 1886 Ridgerunner in 45/70 and spied this female coyote creeping up the trail behind some Couse deer does with young ones and barked her to a stop at about 120 yards.
https://i.postimg.cc/nhyPw3zr/7-C54083-C-19-B9-4895-B75-A-50-E22-D33-D9-B0.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
When she turned and looked back at me at I dropped the hammer on a 405 grain powder coated RNFP on top of 45 grains of H4895 and caught her right above her left eye (last place I saw the crosshairs before the boom) and she folded at the shot.
https://i.postimg.cc/nzZwnMqt/EF9-D5-E45-5-BB1-4704-ABE1-73579-C787-C38.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
She’s my first coyote shooting cast and (not unexpectedly) the bullet sailed through the skull and thence to parts unknown without slowing down (.458 diameter hole straight through) leaving skull fractured like a smashed egg inside the skin.
Normally I use a fast stepping varmint round out of a bolt action for coyotes but the Ridgrunner with a slow moving boxcar of a boolit acquitted itself nicely this morning.
https://i.postimg.cc/nhyPw3zr/7-C54083-C-19-B9-4895-B75-A-50-E22-D33-D9-B0.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
When she turned and looked back at me at I dropped the hammer on a 405 grain powder coated RNFP on top of 45 grains of H4895 and caught her right above her left eye (last place I saw the crosshairs before the boom) and she folded at the shot.
https://i.postimg.cc/nzZwnMqt/EF9-D5-E45-5-BB1-4704-ABE1-73579-C787-C38.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
She’s my first coyote shooting cast and (not unexpectedly) the bullet sailed through the skull and thence to parts unknown without slowing down (.458 diameter hole straight through) leaving skull fractured like a smashed egg inside the skin.
Normally I use a fast stepping varmint round out of a bolt action for coyotes but the Ridgrunner with a slow moving boxcar of a boolit acquitted itself nicely this morning.