Finally broke the ice on another bait site coyote last night. She's been coming on and off for a couple of weeks, but couldn't quite get her right. Shot was about 100 yds with Savage model 12, 223 using a 40 gr. v-max at 3,750 fps. She was standing on the hill which surrounds my pond. The shot was quartering away with entry at about the diaphragm, caliber size entry, and no exit on the opposite side. Bullet exploded in the lungs, but she still went about 25 feet and fell in the pond. I had to fish her out this morning and dry her off to make her presentable.
Actually other than an absence of coyotes at the bait site, it hasn't been too bad of late. I've taken two gray fox, a red fox, and called and killed a bobcat. Hopefully the coyote calling will improve once we get back to a dark moon.
