Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote

[windypants]

It was daylight when I saw her with the binos and she's definitely pregnant, just not as big as the one 338 had the picture of. I was just curious what the picture with the thermal would look like. It's a lot grainier than the viewfinder.

 

[DSheetz]

Watching and learning from them is fun to me. So many times, I have said to myself now why did a coyote do that, but after some time spent observing them it became obvious as to why and then I could see similar actions in similar situations and say well now it really makes sense to me.

 

[DSheetz]

Buck; it's the same with so many animals all over the world people with good intentions have created a problem animal by being people and just not being able to think ahead of what their actions will cause down the road. My Granddad told me a lot of things kind of coded in his own way one of the things that I see often in today's world is the road to hell is paved with good intentions! Problem Coyotes are also created so many times by people that don't think they are doing anything that will cause a problem it's just the way things work out.

 

[DSheetz]

Over the years I noticed that the coyotes tended to den in the same area's generation after generation. They may not use the same den holes, but they ended up denning in the same areas. Areas with water close, good food sources, a place to lay up and watch the den from and where the pups could get out of the den to play in the sun. I tried my best not to destroy the den hole when I took the pups from it especially if it was in the cracks of some rock formations or under a rock ledge as those holes seemed to be reused most often and that information saved me a lot of walking so many times. I had some old maps that had the range township and sections marked on them at first, then came better maps. I found a place called GEO=MAPS and they made me satellite image maps with GPS coronates for all of my den sites. Not so much for me as for the person that was going to take my place if something happened to me or when I retired. I gave them to the respective ranchers when I retired who in turn shared them with Gene, my replacement but I also went out with Gene and showed him around the den sites ect. . Gene asked me why I would help him so much by showing him the places that I had taken dens and giving him my left-over traps and snares. I told him It's not so much just giving you a hand but it's helping my friends that I worked for, for over 36 years as well.

 

[DSheetz]

I've been playing with a new rifle, a Ruger American Predator. So far I haven't gotten a good group at 100 yards and at 25 yards it's not so good either. It didn't like the 140's or the 95's but I will get it figured out. I checked the scope on a different rifle and it's good, the barrel doesn't foul badly, everything is tight, I will probably take it out of the stock and check that tonight then start playing with some different loads. The 95's were the best shooting groups with an eight-inch group at 100 yards so I will start with them. I will check the seating depth and adjust that to somewhere starting around .062 jump, and probably slow them down a little from 3100 to around 2900, then if that helps, I will adjust from there. I will then play with different powders and primers if it doesn't, in the meantime I have a couple of other rifles that I know will do what I want, it's all for the fun of figuring it out at this point in time.

 

[74honker]

Holy cow! 8" at 100yd. Is the barrel even tight on the action lol. Just kidding obviously but am sure with your meticulous attention to detail you will find the culprit but something is definately not kosher there.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Wow, Dave. My RAP loves the 140s and will shoot 1/2" groups. I am curious. Keep us informed.

 

[74honker]

I had a scope rail come loose once and couldn't tell till I took it all apart and found stripped screws.

 

[windypants]

Holy cow! 8" at 100yd. Is the barrel even tight on the action lol. Just kidding obviously but am sure with your meticulous attention to detail you will find the culprit but something is definately not kosher there.

Don't laugh—I had that happen! I had a factory rifle that drove me crazy trying to get it to shoot, and when I finally gave up and decided to get it rebarreled, the barrel spun loose when I went to take the hand-tight brake off. Live and learn!

 

[74honker]

Don't laugh—I had that happen! I had a factory rifle that drove me crazy trying to get it to shoot, and when I finally gave up and decided to get it rebarreled, the barrel spun loose when I went to take the hand-tight brake off. Live and learn!

Live and learn indeed. Anything is possible for sure but that would definately throw a guy for a loop.

 

[DSheetz]

I defiantly will be getting into it pretty deep to figure it out or send it back, it defiantly isn't satisfactory they should be at least a 1" group out of the box. I have already checked all of the screws on the scope mounts, the action bolts looked at the bore and cleaned it well. It comes out of the stock tonight then if I don't see anything obvious it will get sent back, they do have a warranty that says they will make it right, so I won't mess with it much at this time so that they will make it good.

 

[windypants]

A friend just got a 6 creed and the bullets were tumbling and making slash marks on the target. Turns out it was a 6.5 barrel labeled wrong.

 

[74honker]

What happened to QC? This is some serious stuff here not just a scratch in a stock or something. WOW!

 

[DSheetz]

It has some vee blocks inlayed in the stock that the action is supposed to bed them together they were not doing it so well and the front sling swivel stud was too long as well kind of like setting the barrel on a ball bearing. I will take it back to the bench tomorrow and see what it does then. If it doesn't run at least a moa group, I will start the warranty process, or buy a new laminate stock and steel bottom metal.