Saturday night I had more success. A young male coyote had hit the bait the previous night, so I stayed at the cabin, hoping for a return. He showed up early in the night around 9:25 PM. Once again I used the thermal and the 6.5 Grendel.
I had baited up high on the hillside near the edge of the hay field and the entrance to the bait site. I place sensors up high near the border and angled just slightly toward the field so that any coyote skirting the edge would get triggered.
The 100 gr. Sierra HP hit perfectly where I aimed and exited out the opposite shoulder bone, causing a fairly large exit wound. The now-discontinued Pulsar Apex XQ38 continues to hold zero well. This coyote was about 50-55 yards when I shot. He jumped and ran down through the tall grass that is between the cabin and bait site, falling about half way down the hill. At first I thought I had made a marginal shot since so many others just hit the dirt, but after inspection I found that the bullet had impacted exactly where the crosshair was aimed. Sometimes they don't drop as we would expect them to.
Pulsar Apex XQ38 on a 20" BCA 6.5 Grendel upper and a DPMS lower with a 2-stage trigger.
The first two photos show the grass between the cabin and bait area. The upper arrow is where the coyote was standing when shot and the lower arrow
where he finally came to rest in the tall grass.
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You can see the bullet entrance just behind the right shoulder. I didn't post the exit due to PM rules.
Here's the video, and also near the end is the last coyote I got earlier this month. I didn't post it earlier due to it being short. So far two coyotes have
dropped this month to the Grendel and thermal.
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