A story I've just gotta tell...

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12 years 7 months ago #11642 by txlongshotb4
A story I've just gotta tell... was created by txlongshotb4
This weekend I went out to spend a few days on the lease I usually deer hunt on. The place is a 400+ acre spread that is primarily used for cattle grazing. I'd hoped to get in a night hog hunt, so I packed up my AR-10 and all of my field gear and took it with me. The guy that runs the property has been a good friend of mine for years, and I arrived at the ranch on Friday evening and we spent that night drinking beers and catching up. He said he needed to get out in the morning and throw some feed for the cattle, and I decided to tag along. We headed out the next morning at first light, and I decided to bring my rifle along for the trip-never know what you're going to see.
We pulled up in his truck at the usual spot he throws the feed, which has a pretty commanding view of the main pasture which is about 800 yards deep. We could see the cattle on the far end, and my buddy was surprised that they did not start heading towards his truck to feed, which is the normal routine. While he was throwing the feed, I spotted some movement out at about 500 yards. I took a look through my binos and found the reason why the cattle wouldn't come closer...there were three coyotes out there that had downed one of his calves, and were fully engaged in making a meal of it. Donny (my buddy) was none too pleased. After a quick confirm from my laser range finder and an impromptu firing position set up on the roof of his truck cab, we were ready to draw our pound of flesh.
I'd been a bit concerned because I recently had my barrel shortened by six inches, and I had not yet gotten any good solid data for this range. I just estimated that I,d be about a foot low, and so I made some last minute hail-Mary corrections on my scope and sent round number one. It caught the first coyote dead on in the face and put his lights out before he ever hit the ground.(I'd been aiming a bit lover in the body mass.) Since I was using the suppressor and since the coyotes were involved in tearing up this calf, the other two didn't even seem to notice. I put the reticle on the next one, lined up just on the bottom edge of his chest line and sent round number two, and then recovered from recoil, lined up on number three and did the same. I hit number three in the body, and it was pretty much a facing shot to the chest, so he went down. I had somehow missed number two, and he got wise and started to get out of Dodge. His mistake, however, is that he chose to come straight towards me, slightly quartering from left to right, and not nearly as fast as he could (and should) have. Round number four took out his back hips, and left him trying to get away on his front legs. Round five punched his ticket, and that was the end of that. It all went down in a few seconds, and I am proud to report that my Armalite is still just as much of a beast as it was with the long barrel on it. I only observed about four to six inches in change of impact at 500 yards, so I am now thinking that my muzzle velocity hasn't changed nearly as much as I had first believed.
The rest of the weekend never turned into a hog hunt. The Texas heat forced us too opt for more beer and less sweat, so the critters got a free pass-for now. I am satisfied none the less-three coyotes in five rounds in under ten seconds at five hundred yards is just fine by me!
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12 years 7 months ago #11643 by WES213
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Damn fine shooting tx, sounds like the calve got his in the end.

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12 years 7 months ago #11658 by Redscout02
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Heck yeah!! was a time when you've gotten a bounty on them to.

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12 years 7 months ago #11665 by Moby
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Damn fine job partner!!!!

Got my ammo today, getting my AR10 Thursday.

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