Grumulkin
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About 75 yards with a 20 grain CCI Gamepoint out of a 17 HMR from my front door and DRT. My wife didn't even wake up. LOL.
Look what showed up this morning...
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About 75 yards with a 20 grain CCI Gamepoint out of a 17 HMR from my front door and DRT. My wife didn't even wake up. LOL.
Loyalist Dave
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Nice Shot! We don't get many yote's out my way, are they a problem in Ohio?
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Grumulkin
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There are plenty of coyotes in Ohio but I don’t consider them a problem around here; maybe because I kill them.
Choctaw
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Good job!
Flintknapper
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Good job, can you tell us the shot placement? I've been hesitant to shoot any Coyotes with my .17HMR thinking it just not enough gun to reliably put them down. I'm sure they'd run off and die someplace (depending on shot placement) but that isn't what I'm after.
The reason I ask....is that I've read of folks (including this post) shooting Yotes with the .17HMR and doing fine with it. But I've had smaller animals 'Raccoons' crawl off 40 yds or so with well placed shots tight behind the shoulder (broadside) with both the 17 TNT and the more stable Gamepoint (20 gr.).
I know some animals are just 'tougher' than others. Raccoons being among them. So maybe I'm being too cautious?
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Grumulkin
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The shot was a head shot. A lung shot or heart shot would have killed it but it wouldn't have been DRT with nary a twitch. The gun is very accurate and I take crows, ground hogs and raccoons with it frequently. A head shot at 75 yards on a coyote using a good rest wasn't much of a challenge.
Last summer I took a raccoon with it with a lung shot and that animal was DRT.
A few years ago I took a coyote with what I believe, considering entry and exit wounds, was a heart shot using a 22-250. It ran fast about 200 yards one way and then about 100 yards back the way it had come before it realized it was dead. I believe bullet placement on coyotes is more important than the size of the bullet.
And here is today's 17 HMR victim! Another head shot.
There's still one more under my back porch. Its time is coming.
Last summer I took a raccoon with it with a lung shot and that animal was DRT.
A few years ago I took a coyote with what I believe, considering entry and exit wounds, was a heart shot using a 22-250. It ran fast about 200 yards one way and then about 100 yards back the way it had come before it realized it was dead. I believe bullet placement on coyotes is more important than the size of the bullet.
And here is today's 17 HMR victim! Another head shot.
There's still one more under my back porch. Its time is coming.
I try to shoot every yote I see. If I'm hunting the get shot with whatever is in my hand.
Flintknapper
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Thanks, I will keep that in mind. My rifle is accurate enough to make good head shots at up to 100 yds.
I wonder if a shot at the base of the skull (occipital joint) where it joins the neck would get sufficient penetration. IF so....seems like it would provide a little room for error. As long as it isn't windy....my rifle will print 5/8" to 3/4" five shot groups easily, with some better than that. Well under 1 MOA with almost all cartridges.
I'd like to use it more than I do....but had/have my reservations about Coyotes.
marksman13
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I’ll tell you this, I’ve seen deer shot in the head with a 17 HMR and you can make the racks as wide or as narrow as you want to afterwards. I wouldn’t ever recommend a 17 HMR for game bigger than coyotes, but don’t underestimate what that little round is capable of.
dh1633pm
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17 does a number. A favorite rimfire. Good shooting.
Highland Lofts
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I have heard of a guy taking a bull elk with a head shot from a 17HMR.
MacAR
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The 17 is handy little rifle, isn't it? I've shot a few critters with mine since getting it back in the winter, and can say I'm thoroughly impressed with it.
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armedwalleye
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I have a thumbhole stocked left hand Savage .17 HMR, and I can state with utmost certainty I have not put a scope on a coyote noggin yet that the .17 hasn't poked a nice little hole into. FYI, picking one up by the ear afterward is akin to picking up a half full gallon of milk....it just sort of sloshes around inside.
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The 17HMR has a nice way of liquidfiying brain matter.
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