Posted on 06/08/2005 12:47:58 PM PDT by ZULU
Yes.
I remember reading also that the Mafia prefers .22 guns for their "hits". They get in real close, take good aim, and there is less noise.
Bullet placement is everything.
A .22 mag will work. Go with the 40-grain pill, avoid the little 30-gr jobs. My vintage Marlin will put the CCI Hi-Vel 40-gr hollowpoints into a 1" square at 85 yds.
Of course a .223 is better, and anything bigger than that just gets better. But the 22 mag will work at reasonable ranges.
We're not talking a humane kill here. Many .22 hits would cause a coyote-sized animal to die from internal bleeding, even if the hit wasn't immediately fatal.
My truck's deer grill works pretty well.
I have crossed a divided highway to hit a coyote.
Eskimos regularly kill polar bears with a .22.
I have been told that hunting a polar bear alone with only a bow and arrow gives the bear a 50/50 chance. This would be true sport. Lucky I don't care for sports that much.
All depends on your range. I shot one out my bedroom window at 45yds. with a .22LR.
Well, I read that story about a sharpened rib bone twisted into a circle and frozen in a ball of animal fat. The bear swallows the ball of fat, the fat melts and instant perforated stomach.
I think the bullet in the brain is more humane. But I'd make sure I was a good shot.
Polar bears can yank a 600 lb seal out of the water and hurl it through the air - just by grabbing it by the nose with one paw. I'd like to see the Gubernator do that!
I have two Huskies and those seem to be the smartest dogs I have ever had. Especially the puppy. She is AS smart, at 4 months old, as my parents Newfie, Who was the previous smartest dog I had ever been around...
We need to breed coyotes with Irish setters. I had one of these beautiful bird dogs, but unfortunately she was a dumb as a brick.
Big rats...I saw a picture of one a hunter killed in VA last year. It weighed almost 120lbs! I had know idea they got that big.
.22 magnum? I suppose. I haven’t seen one of those in a long time. It was an over/under .22 magnum/.410 shotgun.
In that case, I’d probably choose some larger shot for the .410 and hit him with both of them.
Personally, for generic stuff I prefer my Remington 870/Winchester 94 combination. They’re pretty much indestructible and dependable, IMO. (Oh - and best part - were cheap/free.)
Nice post! I've often wondered how long it will take coyotes and/or wolves to get back down to North Carolina. Maybe they are already, but not that I'm aware of. I would think that this would still be a natural habitat for them.
General (sort of joking) question: Does hunting really instill fear in animals? I know to some extent it's a true phenomena, but when you think about it- the only time animals who are being hunted should "learn" to fear humans would be when they are wounded- and hunting these days typically is one shot, one kill. Are there that many animals out there watching and observing their buddies getting killed, or are there that many bad hunters leaving animals wounded?
It seems to me that animals generally fear humans to begin with (why?... the Biblical fall, maybe?), and that hunting typically serves to mainain that fear by killing off any critters that have lost that fear of humans.
How long ago was that? I heard that they have bred out the high strung nervousness of years ago.
After all, Setters are hunting dogs and hunting dogs weren't developed to do fancy tricks or elaborate Schutzhund exercizes. They are plenty smart enough to do what they were developed for.
Coyotes and prairie dogs.
1960 or there abouts. Wonderful with pheasants, pleasant with kids, not overly nervous.
Those poor Setters. I love the breed, obedient and well tempered, but I've never met one that had a lick of smarts, bless their hearts.
The only thing coyotes are for here is target practice before they kill all the rest of the wild game.
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