u/Echo017

I built this ridiculous and awesome thing to deal with the coyotes in my backyard.

We live just on the edge of the suburbs in a heavily wooded neighborhood with all woods behind my house and lately the coyotes have gotten so bold as to be on my lower deck and in the driveway.

After a quick check of laws and regulations I can legally shoot centerfire on my property but as the old passage goes “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”. So my usual AR coyote rigs were deemed a bit un neighborly to touch off at midnight in the neighborhood, even suppressed.

So I built this day of the jackal 2.0 esque “thing” starting with a CVA Scout in 300blk with a Farrow Tech brace adapter, Sig folding brace, Silencerco Omega and a NOCPIX S50.

It is both hilariously quiet and accurate, getting around 1MOA at 100yds with 220grn Federal subsonic and with the impact of the bullet being several times louder than the report of the gun.

194grn Maximum Expansion Subsonics from Underwood have already bagged two coyotes this spring and they have grown noticeably shyer around my house in recent months ;) I can also remark that the bullets performed beautifully and as advertised and I am planning on using them on a hog or deer soon.

Spot and Stalk hunt for Red Stag in Argentina I did a few weeks back during the peak of “The Roar” which is the equivalent of the rut (remember it is fall in Argentina in March).

Shot him the first morning with an old M700 in .270 with a 130grn SST (not exactly my 1st or even 10th choice of bullet…rifle was otherwise fine).

This was one of those hunts that is burned into my memory forever.

Super foggy morning, stags roaring all around us, guide and I moving as quick and quiet as possible to get our wind right and heading toward the sounds of two stags tearing into each other through the mist and underbrush.

1st stag loses the fight, and comes hauling butt through the dense brush right towards us, he is a nice 5x5 and all freshly battered up, I let him pass, my heart pounding, thinking a) it is an hour into the first morning and b) I want to see the stag that just kicked that 5x5s butt and sent him scrambling. We can still hear the victor roaring and thrashing bushes in triumph maybe 50yds from us in a clearing full of females.

About a minute later the stag I ended up harvesting comes roaring and thrashing his way through the brush, drooling and steam coming off his breath as he went to chase the 5x5 further away.

We were on the side of a small but steep hill so I dropped prone and rolled to my side to get an angle under the brush and picked a shooting lane he was heading towards and put a .270, 130grn SST right through his heart as he was at a full trot at a distance of about 30yds.

The stag immediately dropped to one knee from the shot, got back up and stumbled about 20 yards down a hill and tipped over.

Zero blood trail outside of the initial area we shot him and glad we saw him go down as the Patagonia scrub is rather aggressive.

When we opened him up his heart was just gone. Chest cavity was a soup of heart and the forward portions of the lungs and the 130grn SST had completely blown apart and didn’t even make it to the rib cage on the other side, so glad my shot placement was on point….

If you ever get a chance to hunt Red Stag in Patagonia, do it, I have hunted pretty much everything in N. America and nothing came close to the rush of stalking these big red stag in the natural beauty of Patagonia