Coyote Slayer
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Ok here we go I hunt wolves and coyotes all winter and my two main guns are the 17 VLR and my 224 Clark for long range work out to 1000 yards.this year while walking out of a wood line on a two mile lake there was a fox now I normaly do not take foxes but this was a great red.so set up the rest checked the rangefinder and saw that he was out of what I thought was in my set up but did the math and went ten more clicks off the 22 moa and took the shot there must have been a slight breez that i could not feal and did not show on my wind meater and so the bullet broke bouth hips and put him down like a house fell on him the range was 1825 yards.
When I got to him he tried to move and I put a 22lr in to him and it was over.
But if this would have been a 122lb wolf or a 52 lb coyote he would have been gone. Now the question. I new that I was up aganist a wall for the clark and where i work with a mess like that you could be on the 6:00 news so as i have said i have a new 6.5-284 with a 30 inch barrel and 1 in nine twist that will be here in about two weeks.
Is this the better rifle for those type of shots out to about 2000 yards now with what my job is I just can not pass on a shot I can try to get clowser or call them in and i have looked at some of the rifles that are talked about on this board but I am on the ground moveing all the time day after day I looked at the 338-416 but an eighty lb rifle is a bit much to carry up one mountain and down the next. The Clark has never let me down and at 1000 I do not think she ever will but we went past what I knew she could do.
I have heard nothing but great things about the 6.5-284 but moast shoot papper.
I know this is a hard Question to answer and i read the other poast to see if my answer was in there and if it was I really missed it and i am sorry to rehash the topic.
Now to get the Idea that i do not mind a heavy rifle my 17 VLR is 28 lbs and that is with the nightforce 5.5 X 22 X 56 on it and six rounds in the Rifle and my clark is right at 33lbs was there a better CAL out there that I missed I guess this is what this all gets down to I looked at 7mm/61sharp and hart, the 7mmSTW, even the plan jane 7mm Mag.
Well sorry for the long wind guys and gals to get to a point any help is better than none thanks and have a great Sunday:Coyote Slayer
When I got to him he tried to move and I put a 22lr in to him and it was over.
But if this would have been a 122lb wolf or a 52 lb coyote he would have been gone. Now the question. I new that I was up aganist a wall for the clark and where i work with a mess like that you could be on the 6:00 news so as i have said i have a new 6.5-284 with a 30 inch barrel and 1 in nine twist that will be here in about two weeks.
Is this the better rifle for those type of shots out to about 2000 yards now with what my job is I just can not pass on a shot I can try to get clowser or call them in and i have looked at some of the rifles that are talked about on this board but I am on the ground moveing all the time day after day I looked at the 338-416 but an eighty lb rifle is a bit much to carry up one mountain and down the next. The Clark has never let me down and at 1000 I do not think she ever will but we went past what I knew she could do.
I have heard nothing but great things about the 6.5-284 but moast shoot papper.
I know this is a hard Question to answer and i read the other poast to see if my answer was in there and if it was I really missed it and i am sorry to rehash the topic.
Now to get the Idea that i do not mind a heavy rifle my 17 VLR is 28 lbs and that is with the nightforce 5.5 X 22 X 56 on it and six rounds in the Rifle and my clark is right at 33lbs was there a better CAL out there that I missed I guess this is what this all gets down to I looked at 7mm/61sharp and hart, the 7mmSTW, even the plan jane 7mm Mag.
Well sorry for the long wind guys and gals to get to a point any help is better than none thanks and have a great Sunday:Coyote Slayer