Predator Season Starts October 1st

[JamieZ]

Figured I would start a thread, seeing how coyote season starts tomorrow.

Spent the past weekend texting landowners and letting them know when Yote season starts. Plus, I was reaffirming that I still have permission.

All of them text me back, but most said that I have till Oct 15th, and then I couldn't come back till the end of deer season.
So that gives me 2 weekends on the majority of the properties but still have 3 that I can hunt before, during and after deer season.

So hopefully this weekend I will be lucky enough to have video to post.

It's a great time of year to hunt them because the brothers and sisters might have been kicked from Mom and Dads house, but they are still attached to one another. So if you call one in,,, more than likely 2 or 3 will come in at the same time. Plus, they aren't smart yet.

Let the Video’s begin !!

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[Shoots100]

Here's my 2024 Fall season Impulse Predator rigs.
Front Primary Predator is sporting a fresh 18" Preferred CF barrel with Titanium linear comp chambered in 20-250, Factory stock and Halo X50 scope.
Rear backup Predator is the 20" X-Caliber CF .243 death machine, Boyd's At one Thumbhole stock and Rix L3 scope.
Both set up for the superior left handed shooter.
This is the first time in 30+ years that I haven't used some type of .243 chambered rifle as my primary on opening day.
Of course I had to load up some fresh ammo to feed the Predators.
20-250 - 55 Grn Berger HPBT, H4350, Formed Win brass and WLRP primer.
.243 - 70 Grn Nosler BT, H4350, Win brass and WLRP primer.
Good luck to All.
SJC

 

[squib]

 

[JamieZ]

Here's my 2024 Fall season Impulse Predator rigs.
Front Primary Predator is sporting a fresh 18" Preferred CF barrel with Titanium linear comp chambered in 20-250, Factory stock and Halo X50 scope.
Rear backup Predator is the 20" X-Caliber CF .243 death machine, Boyd's At one Thumbhole stock and Rix L3 scope.
Both set up for the superior left handed shooter.
This is the first time in 30+ years that I haven't used some type of .243 chambered rifle as my primary on opening day.
Of course I had to load up some fresh ammo to feed the Predators.
20-250 - 55 Grn Berger HPBT, H4350, Formed Win brass and WLRP primer.
.243 - 70 Grn Nosler BT, H4350, Win brass and WLRP primer.
Good luck to All.
SJC

For some reason, and I probably should have known, I didn't know you had a gun with the X-Caliber barrel. They make really nice barrels.
For not an astronomical price.

That's what I put on my P-Shooter.

 

[JRtraderny]

So is this 2 or 4 legged coyotes ?

 

[Cerakoted]

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What lam ya got there? Just picked up the laserspeed m6tr full power....its insane

 

[squib]

What lam ya got there? Just picked up the laserspeed m6tr full power....its insane

Steiner OTAL-C, I save the full pwr stuff for long distance calls

 

[Shoots100]

Dropped several dogs and had some real nice footage to show, but the X50 scope crapped the bed again and I fear the footage has been lost.
I dropped this female at 20 paces Sunday Pm.
Just have to settle for a pic.

 

[Shoots100]

 

[squib]

What was the last song the bad dogs heard?

 

[Shoots100]

Didn't use the call to get this one in range.
It just appeared on the trail.
We saw some evidence of dogs trying to get into a deer pen and figured it was a good place to sit.
SJC

 

[togmaster]

Any useful purpose for the pelts or do you just leave them to rot?

 

[Shoots100]

I'll save a dog if the pelt is nice and a farmer is interested in keeping it.
Usually in the colder months or if it's a dog taken on their land.
Mostly the pelts are worth nothing as the cartridges I use aren't fur friendly.
I'm more concerned with eliminating them.
SJC

 

[Shoots100]

Dropped a dog this morning.
By the time this dog showed up I'd been up for 22 hours, sat in 3 hours of traffic and was fading.
I woke right up when the dogs started to answer back.
SJC

 

[Hillbilly77]

I just shot this one 20 minutes ago in the field by my house. I wasn’t even hunting. I shined a light out across the field from my living room window and there they were. There was a second one that ran away as soon as the light hit them.
I’ll take what I can get.
I keep telling myself that I should take up actively hunting coyotes instead of just waiting for chance encounters.

I used my Ruger American in .223, topped with a Leupold scope.