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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Coyote shotgun ammo and choke test
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<blockquote data-quote="derbyacresbob" data-source="post: 1331597" data-attributes="member: 23974"><p>Turkey loads are not fine for coyotes. Turkeys are at least 5 times easier to kill or put down than a coyote is. A good pattern doesn't do anything to a coyote if the pellets don't weigh enough to break bones and penetrate through lots of guts and meat.</p><p></p><p>You can't always shoot a coyote in the head so you need dense, heavy and hard shot to penetrate very deep into a coyote. A good coyote load will break down a coyote going away at 40 yards.</p><p></p><p>Just because you can head shoot a coyote at 40 yards and kill it doesn't make it a good coyote load.</p><p></p><p>Shooting coyotes is nothing like shooting turkeys, waterfowl shotguns make much better coyote shotguns than turkey shotguns do. Shooting at running coyotes is much more similar to shooting flying pheasants or waterfowl than it is like shooting a standing turkey in the head.</p><p></p><p>With the KPY Shotshell Ballistic Software they recommend 2.50" of gel penetration to reliably kill geese. I have killed lots of coyotes with copper coated lead BB shot so from what I have seen in the KPY Ballistic program it looks to me like 3.70" of gel penetration is a good reference for reliably killing or stopping coyotes.</p><p></p><p>Below are the numbers I got out of my KPY Shotshell Ballistic Software. All of these loads are at 1300 fps at 1,000 ft elevation. 2.50" of gel penetration is for geese and 3.70" of gel penetration is for coyotes.</p><p></p><p>1300 fps lead #4 shot gets 2.50" of gel penetration at 33.2 yards.</p><p>1300 fps lead #4 shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 8.5 yards.</p><p>1300 fps Hevi-Shot #2 shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 31.3 yards.</p><p>1300 fps lead BB shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 46.1 yards.</p><p>1300 fps Hevi-Shot BB shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 62.4 yards.</p><p>1300 fps Fed HW BB shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 115.5 yards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="derbyacresbob, post: 1331597, member: 23974"] Turkey loads are not fine for coyotes. Turkeys are at least 5 times easier to kill or put down than a coyote is. A good pattern doesn't do anything to a coyote if the pellets don't weigh enough to break bones and penetrate through lots of guts and meat. You can't always shoot a coyote in the head so you need dense, heavy and hard shot to penetrate very deep into a coyote. A good coyote load will break down a coyote going away at 40 yards. Just because you can head shoot a coyote at 40 yards and kill it doesn't make it a good coyote load. Shooting coyotes is nothing like shooting turkeys, waterfowl shotguns make much better coyote shotguns than turkey shotguns do. Shooting at running coyotes is much more similar to shooting flying pheasants or waterfowl than it is like shooting a standing turkey in the head. With the KPY Shotshell Ballistic Software they recommend 2.50" of gel penetration to reliably kill geese. I have killed lots of coyotes with copper coated lead BB shot so from what I have seen in the KPY Ballistic program it looks to me like 3.70" of gel penetration is a good reference for reliably killing or stopping coyotes. Below are the numbers I got out of my KPY Shotshell Ballistic Software. All of these loads are at 1300 fps at 1,000 ft elevation. 2.50" of gel penetration is for geese and 3.70" of gel penetration is for coyotes. 1300 fps lead #4 shot gets 2.50" of gel penetration at 33.2 yards. 1300 fps lead #4 shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 8.5 yards. 1300 fps Hevi-Shot #2 shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 31.3 yards. 1300 fps lead BB shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 46.1 yards. 1300 fps Hevi-Shot BB shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 62.4 yards. 1300 fps Fed HW BB shot gets 3.70" of gel penetration at 115.5 yards. [/QUOTE]
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