The FOXPRO Podcast

EP. 7: Big Al Morris - Top 5 Coyote Hunting Calibers

Episode Summary

Jon Collins and Big Al Morris discuss their top five calibers for hunting coyotes.

Episode Transcription

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welcome to the Foxpro podcast

 

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brought to you by Foxpro game calls we

 

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are Ellen again welcome back to the

 

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Foxpro podcast on this episode we're

 

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going to discuss our top five coyote

 

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calibers this is John Collins and we've

 

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got Big Al Morris back on the line again

 

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what's going on now

 

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John how's the weather in your country

 

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it's wet we've been getting a lot of

 

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rain here lately which is pretty good

 

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because we had been dry for most of the

 

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summer and thought we was going to go

 

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into a drought but it is is actually

 

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turned off wet again kind of got us back

 

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to normal how about you

 

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well I saw where them people were

 

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flooding out in your state but hopefully

 

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it wasn't anywhere near you it's it was

 

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probably about an hour or so to two

 

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hours east of me which was you know been

 

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still close John it's pretty close it's

 

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pretty close you know it's I'm kind of

 

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in what they consider the Bluegrass

 

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region of Kentucky is he's Rolling Hills

 

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Farm country and then you just go just a

 

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little bit east and it gets into that

 

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mountain and stuff you know Eastern

 

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Kentucky and Virginia West Virginia you

 

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know Western how far are you from the

 

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big horse racing places in the horse

 

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pastures and stuff I'm just an hour

 

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south or less from Lexington which is

 

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where kingdom is at where all the big uh

 

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thoroughs and all that stuff yeah yep

 

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just I'm right there

 

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well one of these days I'm going to get

 

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on one of these planes when they get

 

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this stuff figured out and I'm gonna

 

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come hang out with you in Kentucky

 

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because that sounds like a lot of fun

 

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but we're talking calibers today that is

 

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that is right and you know before we get

 

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started how's the how's the coyote

 

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hunting been for you lately I don't know

 

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you've been on a hunt or two here here

 

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is well I was in New Mexico and the very

 

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first pair we called in

 

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I was down there with Chris Lilly in uh

 

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just outside of Pie Town New Mexico the

 

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first pair we called in worked the dogs

 

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like a I mean it was perfect the female

 

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comes in barking the male comes in

 

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trying to beat up the dogs and and me

 

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and Chris dump a double with the rugers

 

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and and I thought it was going to be

 

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alligator Central down there and then

 

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every other guy we called in was wussy

 

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it would not engage the dogs and it's

 

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just been they I haven't had but two

 

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pair of alligators everything else has

 

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been really soft with the dogs this year

 

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I don't know whether it's environmental

 

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I you know I some day I'm gonna write a

 

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hell of a book John me and you if we

 

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ever put her put her heads together and

 

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write a book but uh at the end of the

 

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day it was it's been a good dogging

 

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season it just hasn't been the

 

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alligators that I like to see and dog

 

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interaction right but but the coyotes

 

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the calling itself as far as has been

 

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pretty good no you and John I just gotta

 

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give a shout out I mean we always you

 

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know foxboro's had the largest Sound

 

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Library in the business if there was

 

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ever a knock to our line it was that we

 

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didn't have the vocals that some of

 

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these other lines had but teaming up

 

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with mfk it's been a game changer

 

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no you know it's a game changer too but

 

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adding the mfk being able for me and you

 

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to add that mfk library to the fox Pro

 

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it's just it gives me a confidence I

 

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just I don't think I've ever had before

 

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well we've gotta we've got several more

 

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weapons in Arsenal now it uh definitely

 

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can't say enough about them Tori's got

 

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it going on for sure and I think you

 

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know working on some new sounds it'll be

 

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coming out for too long I know they've

 

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been testing some so right yeah he's out

 

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there in the future yeah I can't wait

 

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either well I do a lot of fishing and I

 

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don't take just one jig or one lure to

 

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go fishing and it's so nice to have a

 

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tackle box full of the best lures we can

 

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be throwing out to coyotes and great way

 

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to put it

 

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it's just it's awesome

 

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let's try that right oh yeah no you can

 

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go through it and you know we'll I know

 

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we got another podcast coming up we're

 

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gonna start talking fall techniques but

 

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it's just awesome to be able to morph

 

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one technique into another and we can

 

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talk about that at a different date but

 

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uh just having that Arsenal on those and

 

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of course you know we got the number one

 

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built callers on the planet now we've

 

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got the largest Sound Library and the

 

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most options with mfk's Library added to

 

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it and it's just it's a beautiful thing

 

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man yes sir well let's let's jump right

 

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into it and talk about our top five

 

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coyote calibers and uh the truth is

 

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there's tons of calibers and cartridges

 

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out there that'll take down coyotes but

 

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you know there's definitely some out

 

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there that are better suited for the job

 

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than others and I want to add before we

 

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get started it if we don't mention the

 

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caliber cartridge that you guys and gals

 

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like to hunt with don't take it to heart

 

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we're not saying there's anything wrong

 

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with it it's just one of our favorites

 

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um well and let's I to be totally honest

 

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here John some of these cartridges I

 

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don't have a lot of experience with but

 

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I've got some really good friends that

 

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bought you know the 22 nozzler the 224

 

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Valkyrie

 

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um

 

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those calibers I'd I've honestly never

 

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bought one but you know several of my

 

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good friends have well you know at the

 

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end of the day and that's the thing you

 

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know how you've shot tons and tons of

 

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coyotes in your lifetime and you've seen

 

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yeah so many other people pile up tons

 

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of coyotes just alongside you and uh yes

 

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like I said I was telling you Earl I

 

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said you know I'm sure you've seen The

 

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Good the Bad and the Ugly when it comes

 

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to Coyote calibers you know but really

 

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put to the test in actual field you know

 

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you can read ballistics and some stuff

 

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looks good on paper but when you

 

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actually put the test out there in the

 

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field sometimes it doesn't translate

 

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over so it fails yeah I know and it's

 

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I'm a four-time World Champ me and Garf

 

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should be six or seven eight time world

 

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Champs because

 

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um some calibers let us down and my

 

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number one the first caliber that I

 

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really started shooting coyotes with was

 

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the 223 and that's my number five on my

 

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top five list is the 223 and and me and

 

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Garvin bought Remington 788's box

 

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magazine

 

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um you know I talked to the guy that

 

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worked at Remington he retired he was

 

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the number one uh guy at Remington for

 

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years and he remembers Remington the 788

 

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line you know and they made 243s 22 250s

 

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two two threes and and at one time I had

 

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all three in 788 but they bought uh a

 

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company in Italy had thousands and we're

 

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talking 150 000 barrels or some crazy

 

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amount of barrels over there and they

 

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asked Remington if they wanted them and

 

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they shipped all those barrels

 

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from Italy or wherever they made them

 

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from in Europe over to Remington and

 

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Remington handmade every one of those

 

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788s they literally sat and uh you know

 

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decided you know they had to be most of

 

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them were either 22 or 6 mm or you know

 

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the 243 caliber and they would uh ream

 

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them and and put a caliber and put them

 

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into together by hand every one of those

 

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788s were put together by hand that's

 

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why if anybody out there is a seven

 

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Remington 788 fan everyone was handmade

 

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back in the 70s that's pretty cool yeah

 

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and that's why they're so accurate they

 

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they all had to be handmade from each

 

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Barrel to each action and everything so

 

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if you've got an old 788 and you know

 

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but we me and Garvin bought the two two

 

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threes and we could buy a thousand

 

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rounds of ammo for 179 bucks

 

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at this moment

 

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and yeah we would we would buy those

 

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thousand round cans and we would go

 

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shoot 2 000 rounds during the summer I

 

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would go buy a box of 100 Clays and we

 

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would put 50 100 Clays up on the hill

 

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anywhere from 350 to 50 yards and then

 

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we'd pick a clay and if I missed Garvin

 

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would shoot and we'd keep tally and we

 

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got to where one day we shot a hundred

 

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Clays and never missed our first shot

 

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out to 350 with those two two threes we

 

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thought we were Invincible we had the

 

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old Leopold scopes with the little fine

 

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dot yeah lines in it and uh but we

 

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noticed

 

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as we contest on it

 

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that uh

 

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we noticed contest hunting that we

 

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started getting some Spinners and we

 

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started losing some coyotes now back

 

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then we shot 55 grain soft points that

 

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was our go-to bullet

 

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um I don't think I would have lost as

 

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many coyotes had I been shooting the 53

 

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grain super performance right right yeah

 

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but you know the 223 at the end of the

 

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day let some coyotes get away from us

 

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and that's why it's number five on my

 

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list do you uh do you ever shoot to two

 

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two three anymore or is it oh yeah yeah

 

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no I video with it all the time and my

 

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favorite my AR to that yeah

 

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that MP

 

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um

 

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from Ruger that's semi-automatic uh AR15

 

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that NPR from Ruger is my uh go-to uh

 

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it's in my truck all the time

 

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um every every place I go it is my

 

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backup gun I got you if something would

 

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happen to my my uh number one gun or my

 

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number two you know the bolt actions or

 

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if I just feel like I'm going to get a

 

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lot of multiples I'll pull out that NPR

 

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and let that AR forward what about your

 

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night rig it's you got your AGM on is it

 

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is it an AR platform or whatever it's an

 

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AR-10 platform in 243 well and I guess

 

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number four on the list yeah I know

 

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that's I told you that's my number four

 

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and actually me and Garvin as we

 

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transition through you know and you you

 

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mentioned The Good the Bad and the Ugly

 

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we did a stint with the six five Grendel

 

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AR platform yeah

 

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and uh I'm just here to tell you me and

 

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Garvin could ring we had these little

 

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steals that I just had some metal

 

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targets made and these little pigs were

 

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about the size of coyotes and they just

 

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sort of they cut them out as pigs

 

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instead of coyotes for and it's all good

 

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we just use you know we would set them

 

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out to 500 yards and Garvin never missed

 

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at 500 yards he could ring that steel

 

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every time and every coyote that he ever

 

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shot at 500 yards I'm pretty sure he hit

 

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but we did not collect them all that one

 

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two three uh SST 123 grain SST uh

 

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Factory ammo

 

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um from zero to 200 yards would drop a

 

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coyote every time so if you're shooting

 

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a 6'5 Grendel and you're saying you

 

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never lost a coyote I understand you

 

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probably ain't shot at one over 300

 

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yards but when that bullet slows down

 

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from three to five hundred yards it just

 

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pokes a dime size hole in dime size hole

 

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out and we literally would watch coyote

 

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spin at 504 three four five hundred

 

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yards and watch them run out of our

 

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lives and we couldn't find them right

 

0:11:00.240,0:11:04.920

yeah we know they're dead with the red

 

0:11:02.220,0:11:06.600

spots right behind their front legs and

 

0:11:04.920,0:11:08.820

uh they got away from us and it cost us

 

0:11:06.600,0:11:10.800

a couple World Championships it's

 

0:11:08.820,0:11:13.019

heartbreaking heartbreak so then we went

 

0:11:10.800,0:11:15.660

to the 243 which is number four number

 

0:11:13.019,0:11:18.779

four on our number four 243.

 

0:11:15.660,0:11:22.620

and uh you know what's your number five

 

0:11:18.779,0:11:24.180

on your list John I it's it's 223. we're

 

0:11:22.620,0:11:25.200

pretty sick man now I actually talked

 

0:11:24.180,0:11:27.120

about this a little bit before we

 

0:11:25.200,0:11:29.459

started and we were pretty much right on

 

0:11:27.120,0:11:31.560

the money with our top five

 

0:11:29.459,0:11:33.600

um we did have just like two that was

 

0:11:31.560,0:11:36.000

that was flip-flop but other than that

 

0:11:33.600,0:11:38.279

yeah I got 223 is number five you know

 

0:11:36.000,0:11:39.720

what I mean the 22 nozzle and the 224

 

0:11:38.279,0:11:42.660

Valkyrie I just don't think there's

 

0:11:39.720,0:11:45.300

enough of an improvement over a 223 to

 

0:11:42.660,0:11:47.160

put those calibers in the top five I

 

0:11:45.300,0:11:51.120

think the 223 the ammunition

 

0:11:47.160,0:11:54.120

availability and that is superior and

 

0:11:51.120,0:11:56.040

then we go to the 243 the 243 has been

 

0:11:54.120,0:11:58.740

around for years yes

 

0:11:56.040,0:12:00.660

and when you start talking those 6mm

 

0:11:58.740,0:12:03.060

calibers you can start getting into the

 

0:12:00.660,0:12:07.260

you know 100 grain bullets

 

0:12:03.060,0:12:09.060

um the 105 grain bullets the uh you know

 

0:12:07.260,0:12:12.899

a lot of guys shoot them heavier Burgers

 

0:12:09.060,0:12:16.500

uh but I mean I'm I'm I'm shooting

 

0:12:12.899,0:12:18.480

Hornady 87 grain uh varmint ammunition

 

0:12:16.500,0:12:21.779

that's my number one ammunition for the

 

0:12:18.480,0:12:24.959

223 or the 243 yeah

 

0:12:21.779,0:12:28.500

um I love the 58 grains right 4 000 foot

 

0:12:24.959,0:12:33.420

a second you get that 243 58 grain suit

 

0:12:28.500,0:12:37.019

performance it shoots identical to a 22

 

0:12:33.420,0:12:39.600

250 right it's forced out if you get uh

 

0:12:37.019,0:12:42.839

Hornady super performance in 22 250 the

 

0:12:39.600,0:12:46.380

50 grain super performance for 22-250 or

 

0:12:42.839,0:12:48.300

the 58 grain 243 it's going the exact

 

0:12:46.380,0:12:50.760

same ballistics

 

0:12:48.300,0:12:54.480

so that's crazy to me that you can have

 

0:12:50.760,0:12:57.180

a 243 jacking out that 58 grain bullet

 

0:12:54.480,0:12:59.639

um do you ever four thousand four

 

0:12:57.180,0:13:01.139

thousand foot light stuff out of the 243

 

0:12:59.639,0:13:03.360

like that do you ever have any trouble

 

0:13:01.139,0:13:04.980

with splashes or anything like that well

 

0:13:03.360,0:13:08.040

you know it's you know what can happen

 

0:13:04.980,0:13:09.959

you know if you've got a bad angle or

 

0:13:08.040,0:13:12.180

you've got a head-on and you don't hit

 

0:13:09.959,0:13:14.100

the chest cabinet now the way a coyote's

 

0:13:12.180,0:13:16.800

chest is designed it's kind of broad to

 

0:13:14.100,0:13:19.019

narrow yeah and if you hit outside if

 

0:13:16.800,0:13:20.880

you don't dead center and we've all seen

 

0:13:19.019,0:13:23.220

it when you when you hit the center of

 

0:13:20.880,0:13:25.740

that white patch under the throat right

 

0:13:23.220,0:13:26.880

it don't matter those coyotes fold like

 

0:13:25.740,0:13:29.519

a cheap suit and I don't care where

 

0:13:26.880,0:13:31.200

there's a 58 grain 87 grain 105 it

 

0:13:29.519,0:13:33.240

doesn't matter out of that 243 they'll

 

0:13:31.200,0:13:35.279

fold every time but if you are outside

 

0:13:33.240,0:13:38.519

if you just happen to slide that bullet

 

0:13:35.279,0:13:40.260

between his front leg and that rib cage

 

0:13:38.519,0:13:42.120

um you will have a spinner you will have

 

0:13:40.260,0:13:46.079

a runner right they will them coyotes

 

0:13:42.120,0:13:47.880

are tough yeah and 240 243 uh that's

 

0:13:46.079,0:13:50.220

I've said this before talking to people

 

0:13:47.880,0:13:52.440

no matter what calibers come out in the

 

0:13:50.220,0:13:54.000

future I always think that the 243 is

 

0:13:52.440,0:13:56.160

probably going to have a spot in my top

 

0:13:54.000,0:13:59.040

five it's just always good it's just

 

0:13:56.160,0:14:01.620

that good no so when we we went from the

 

0:13:59.040,0:14:03.779

223s to the six five grendels to then we

 

0:14:01.620,0:14:05.880

settled on and I mean I've always shot a

 

0:14:03.779,0:14:07.860

22 250 and it's coming up in my top five

 

0:14:05.880,0:14:12.000

it's above my 243 because I've had a

 

0:14:07.860,0:14:14.279

22-250 longer right but that 243 took

 

0:14:12.000,0:14:16.860

over when we started losing coyotes with

 

0:14:14.279,0:14:19.620

that 6'5 Grendel mean garv both switched

 

0:14:16.860,0:14:25.800

to AR-10 243 platforms day guns

 

0:14:19.620,0:14:29.519

nightguns and that is my contest caliber

 

0:14:25.800,0:14:31.139

um I don't have a 6mm Creed yet in an

 

0:14:29.519,0:14:33.720

AR-10 platform I know there's some

 

0:14:31.139,0:14:35.880

making them right but until Ruger makes

 

0:14:33.720,0:14:38.339

me a 6mm Creedmoor I probably won't own

 

0:14:35.880,0:14:40.740

one right and uh I probably shouldn't

 

0:14:38.339,0:14:44.279

tell people that I have a 243 AR 10

 

0:14:40.740,0:14:46.139

Ruger I've got the only AR-10 243 Ruger

 

0:14:44.279,0:14:47.820

that's ever been made and I probably

 

0:14:46.139,0:14:50.940

shouldn't put that out there but it's my

 

0:14:47.820,0:14:55.320

number one gun for night hunting now and

 

0:14:50.940,0:14:58.440

uh that 243 is just my fave the 243 you

 

0:14:55.320,0:15:00.839

know I I'm with you the 87 grain that's

 

0:14:58.440,0:15:03.959

that's my sweet spot the 243 I've always

 

0:15:00.839,0:15:05.579

liked those 80 grain uh 80 something

 

0:15:03.959,0:15:06.839

grain options

 

0:15:05.579,0:15:09.120

um you know they're they just do

 

0:15:06.839,0:15:12.300

something a little more oomph than the

 

0:15:09.120,0:15:15.180

58 green it just I mean the 58 grain is

 

0:15:12.300,0:15:16.980

a laser and it'll do the job but at the

 

0:15:15.180,0:15:21.120

end of the day I like a little more

 

0:15:16.980,0:15:22.920

oomph and and we can talk about

 

0:15:21.120,0:15:25.260

I don't know if you've noticed this John

 

0:15:22.920,0:15:27.180

but summer coyote Heights

 

0:15:25.260,0:15:28.860

are different for bullet performance

 

0:15:27.180,0:15:30.660

than the winner Kyle all right so yeah

 

0:15:28.860,0:15:33.060

because you got you know less hair there

 

0:15:30.660,0:15:36.060

to go through yeah I know when that

 

0:15:33.060,0:15:38.220

coyote Furs out in December January it's

 

0:15:36.060,0:15:39.660

a different Critter than he is in August

 

0:15:38.220,0:15:41.519

a lot of people a lot of people don't

 

0:15:39.660,0:15:43.940

take that in you know that into their

 

0:15:41.519,0:15:46.440

vehicles and

 

0:15:43.940,0:15:48.600

you're shooting coyotes if you're

 

0:15:46.440,0:15:51.240

shooting coyotes in the summertime

 

0:15:48.600,0:15:53.279

that height is really thin I mean those

 

0:15:51.240,0:15:56.459

coyotes are leaned out they look like

 

0:15:53.279,0:15:59.160

rats you know that winter hair is gone

 

0:15:56.459,0:16:01.980

but then you go to Montana in January

 

0:15:59.160,0:16:03.839

you're Alberta Canada where I've been in

 

0:16:01.980,0:16:07.019

January I'm not kidding you it's almost

 

0:16:03.839,0:16:08.579

like they're wearing Kevlar

 

0:16:07.019,0:16:11.279

now you've got some extra stuff here to

 

0:16:08.579,0:16:13.980

slow a bullet down for sure I guarantee

 

0:16:11.279,0:16:16.560

you you want to shoot a heavier bullet

 

0:16:13.980,0:16:18.360

and and guys depending on where they're

 

0:16:16.560,0:16:20.699

at in the country like I don't think

 

0:16:18.360,0:16:21.540

Alabama Tennessee they I mean they hair

 

0:16:20.699,0:16:24.180

up

 

0:16:21.540,0:16:27.120

but they don't air up in in Tennessee or

 

0:16:24.180,0:16:30.600

Missouri or or uh

 

0:16:27.120,0:16:32.459

uh those Southern Alabama some of those

 

0:16:30.600,0:16:34.680

States Georgia is different it's not the

 

0:16:32.459,0:16:37.800

same as you would see it isn't the same

 

0:16:34.680,0:16:39.959

as the Montana or Alberta coyote a Texas

 

0:16:37.800,0:16:45.300

coyote does not have the hair and the

 

0:16:39.959,0:16:48.540

fur that a Montana Idaho oil say Wyoming

 

0:16:45.300,0:16:52.620

and Idaho and Montana coyote right now

 

0:16:48.540,0:16:55.339

have more fur on them than a Kentucky or

 

0:16:52.620,0:16:58.980

Tennessee or Southeastern

 

0:16:55.339,0:17:03.240

Dead Winter all year yeah well they just

 

0:16:58.980,0:17:06.660

lit you know so that I really think and

 

0:17:03.240,0:17:09.780

hey I've shot coyotes in Alberta with a

 

0:17:06.660,0:17:11.339

2-2-3 that were totally furred up and if

 

0:17:09.780,0:17:13.140

you shoot a coyote where you're supposed

 

0:17:11.339,0:17:15.419

to shoot a coyote

 

0:17:13.140,0:17:18.360

um you'll kill them every time I think

 

0:17:15.419,0:17:22.559

just sometimes if you hit bone if you

 

0:17:18.360,0:17:25.380

hit an angle that that uh

 

0:17:22.559,0:17:27.059

um that front shoulder has a big bone in

 

0:17:25.380,0:17:30.299

it and if you hit it at the wrong angle

 

0:17:27.059,0:17:32.940

them bullets especially a V-Max or one

 

0:17:30.299,0:17:35.820

of those newer bullets that has these

 

0:17:32.940,0:17:37.980

polymer tips you can get a splash every

 

0:17:35.820,0:17:39.720

now and again and I'd be lying if I said

 

0:17:37.980,0:17:42.780

I didn't every every one of us has

 

0:17:39.720,0:17:45.240

experienced that Splash yes so it's

 

0:17:42.780,0:17:47.280

gonna happen but just know and that's

 

0:17:45.240,0:17:49.919

the reason and that's the reason I-10

 

0:17:47.280,0:17:52.100

you know if I'm shooting a 243 I tend to

 

0:17:49.919,0:17:54.780

gravitate towards that 87 grain bullet

 

0:17:52.100,0:17:57.059

instead of 58 just so I don't get in

 

0:17:54.780,0:18:00.179

that kind of trouble but I think it's

 

0:17:57.059,0:18:02.100

safe to say 243 is one of the top

 

0:18:00.179,0:18:03.840

calibers and always will be we've got it

 

0:18:02.100,0:18:05.460

at number four Al's got it at number

 

0:18:03.840,0:18:07.260

four and I've actually got it at number

 

0:18:05.460,0:18:09.600

three in the next caliber we'll talk

 

0:18:07.260,0:18:12.900

about is is what I had at number four

 

0:18:09.600,0:18:15.840

but uh you know the 243s also probably

 

0:18:12.900,0:18:18.120

arguably one of the top two or three

 

0:18:15.840,0:18:20.580

night hunting calibers you see a lot of

 

0:18:18.120,0:18:23.760

guys that's running a thermal stuff uh

 

0:18:20.580,0:18:25.320

most time they're talking about a 243.

 

0:18:23.760,0:18:26.760

um some of the best night Hunters I know

 

0:18:25.320,0:18:29.039

in the world used to they they all got

 

0:18:26.760,0:18:32.000

excited about the 224 Valkyrie and after

 

0:18:29.039,0:18:32.000

a few contests

 

0:18:32.820,0:18:38.059

they they went they went from the 224

 

0:18:35.039,0:18:40.380

Valkyries to their 243s yeah so well

 

0:18:38.059,0:18:42.360

that tells you we want to go on to

 

0:18:40.380,0:18:45.780

number three we've got just three cap

 

0:18:42.360,0:18:50.179

we've got number five was 223 number

 

0:18:45.780,0:18:53.820

four is 243. three and number three yeah

 

0:18:50.179,0:18:56.700

a newcomer to the to the coyote hunting

 

0:18:53.820,0:19:00.120

world in the last five eight years would

 

0:18:56.700,0:19:04.260

be the six five uh Creedmoor yep

 

0:19:00.120,0:19:06.900

and uh you know I I I'm not a I don't

 

0:19:04.260,0:19:09.900

jump on bandwagons I really don't

 

0:19:06.900,0:19:12.840

and I thought the Creedmoor the six five

 

0:19:09.900,0:19:17.880

Creedmoor I thought was just you know a

 

0:19:12.840,0:19:20.820

fancy 308. and and I did the you know

 

0:19:17.880,0:19:23.220

all those there's been so many wire six

 

0:19:20.820,0:19:25.500

five over a 308 and when you actually

 

0:19:23.220,0:19:27.900

get to the ballistic coefficients and

 

0:19:25.500,0:19:29.280

looking at the 6'5 Creedmoor and how it

 

0:19:27.900,0:19:31.440

was designed

 

0:19:29.280,0:19:33.240

um it's more efficient than a 308 and

 

0:19:31.440,0:19:36.299

it's a thousand yard legitimate thousand

 

0:19:33.240,0:19:38.280

yard caliber where I don't know if the

 

0:19:36.299,0:19:40.380

two I know you can shoot a thousand

 

0:19:38.280,0:19:44.039

yards with a two two three and a 243 but

 

0:19:40.380,0:19:48.120

the six five was really designed the the

 

0:19:44.039,0:19:52.080

case was designed around uh new bullets

 

0:19:48.120,0:19:55.919

new powders and getting the most eeking

 

0:19:52.080,0:19:58.799

the most out of a caliber and that six

 

0:19:55.919,0:20:00.780

five Creedmoor with the 95 grain V-Max I

 

0:19:58.799,0:20:03.660

think is one of the finest coyote

 

0:20:00.780,0:20:07.200

calibers I have ever shot right right it

 

0:20:03.660,0:20:10.020

is you hit a coyote was that 95 grain

 

0:20:07.200,0:20:12.539

V-Max that's super performance ammo

 

0:20:10.020,0:20:15.299

and they're not going anywhere I mean

 

0:20:12.539,0:20:17.160

the 6.5 Creedmoor you know you see some

 

0:20:15.299,0:20:19.380

funny stuff online about it you know it

 

0:20:17.160,0:20:22.140

gets a bad rap it's but it's not yeah

 

0:20:19.380,0:20:25.380

it's not deserves more yeah yeah it's

 

0:20:22.140,0:20:27.299

not deserving because uh uh no now I

 

0:20:25.380,0:20:29.760

don't shoot a 6.5 Creedmoor but I've

 

0:20:27.299,0:20:31.380

seen them shot so much from friends and

 

0:20:29.760,0:20:32.760

other guys while we're out filming and

 

0:20:31.380,0:20:35.220

stuff like that they just straight up

 

0:20:32.760,0:20:37.500

perform that Creedmoor cartridge that

 

0:20:35.220,0:20:39.780

case is so efficient

 

0:20:37.500,0:20:41.760

um yep and it it absolutely folds

 

0:20:39.780,0:20:43.620

coyotes up it's extremely accurate like

 

0:20:41.760,0:20:45.740

you said you can shoot that thing long

 

0:20:43.620,0:20:49.080

ways out there does such a good thing

 

0:20:45.740,0:20:51.419

down if there is a downside to coyote

 

0:20:49.080,0:20:53.940

hunting with a 6'5 Creedmoor is it that

 

0:20:51.419,0:20:56.039

you will put a hole in there yeah if you

 

0:20:53.940,0:20:57.720

want to hide Hunter if you're a hide

 

0:20:56.039,0:20:59.340

Hunter and that's a whole nother you

 

0:20:57.720,0:21:01.380

know subject we need to talk about it

 

0:20:59.340,0:21:03.900

and that's you know but that's six five

 

0:21:01.380,0:21:05.520

Creedmoor and that 95 grain V-Max if I

 

0:21:03.900,0:21:09.720

was hide hunting with a Creedmoor I'd

 

0:21:05.520,0:21:13.080

probably go up to a uh 105 boat tail you

 

0:21:09.720,0:21:15.419

know right that something a little not

 

0:21:13.080,0:21:16.620

as much explosiveness that comes out of

 

0:21:15.419,0:21:19.200

there and I think it's something else

 

0:21:16.620,0:21:21.480

about the 6.5 Creedmoor that's uh I

 

0:21:19.200,0:21:23.400

think probably a lot of people don't uh

 

0:21:21.480,0:21:25.140

understand or don't know because they

 

0:21:23.400,0:21:27.360

don't shoot them is they don't have no

 

0:21:25.140,0:21:30.059

recoil they don't recall hardly at all

 

0:21:27.360,0:21:32.520

so they're very pleasant to shoot

 

0:21:30.059,0:21:33.900

and then suppressed they're just money I

 

0:21:32.520,0:21:37.140

mean it's just there's something very

 

0:21:33.900,0:21:38.940

and the other thing is it's one of those

 

0:21:37.140,0:21:41.580

I don't know maybe it's just my rear of

 

0:21:38.940,0:21:43.559

your American it's got that camo stock

 

0:21:41.580,0:21:45.600

and I'm just telling you that's six five

 

0:21:43.559,0:21:48.000

Creedmoor I can sit and touch at 100

 

0:21:45.600,0:21:50.159

yards if I get something bigger than a

 

0:21:48.000,0:21:53.880

dime-sized group five shots at a hundred

 

0:21:50.159,0:21:56.820

it's me Rod guns highly accurate it's

 

0:21:53.880,0:21:59.760

inherently accurate so

 

0:21:56.820,0:22:01.860

and I was just looking at the options on

 

0:21:59.760,0:22:04.340

this 6'5

 

0:22:01.860,0:22:07.140

read more here I've got the

 

0:22:04.340,0:22:08.400

yeah so they've got 140 grain match

 

0:22:07.140,0:22:12.720

bullet

 

0:22:08.400,0:22:14.400

120 grain ELD match bullet I mean I if I

 

0:22:12.720,0:22:16.980

was going to hide hunt I'd probably step

 

0:22:14.400,0:22:19.980

up to that 120 or that 140 grain in that

 

0:22:16.980,0:22:22.620

six five right but you know you know the

 

0:22:19.980,0:22:25.559

95 is all business when it comes to

 

0:22:22.620,0:22:28.500

coyotes that 95 grain speed performance

 

0:22:25.559,0:22:30.780

I I just I'm telling you I've shot a lot

 

0:22:28.500,0:22:35.159

of coyotes I've seen a lot of calibers

 

0:22:30.780,0:22:35.880

not coyotes to the ground that 95 grain

 

0:22:35.159,0:22:39.780

um

 

0:22:35.880,0:22:42.240

out of a six five Creedmoor is just it's

 

0:22:39.780,0:22:43.500

it's it's beautiful which which one

 

0:22:42.240,0:22:46.919

thing when you start talking about the

 

0:22:43.500,0:22:48.960

6.5s or you know or really you cannot

 

0:22:46.919,0:22:50.340

pretty much call him a big game gun I

 

0:22:48.960,0:22:52.620

mean uh but they just cross you know

 

0:22:50.340,0:22:55.860

that's pretty much a deer caliber but it

 

0:22:52.620,0:22:57.299

crosses over so oh well into the

 

0:22:55.860,0:22:59.700

Predator world that same thing for the

 

0:22:57.299,0:23:03.539

243 you know there's been many a deer

 

0:22:59.700,0:23:06.480

and oh Antelope and and whatever I shot

 

0:23:03.539,0:23:09.179

a big deer in Colorado two years ago out

 

0:23:06.480,0:23:12.299

there with that six five Creedmoor and

 

0:23:09.179,0:23:14.159

it was I shot the 140 grain ELD right

 

0:23:12.299,0:23:15.480

right and I think it's you know

 

0:23:14.159,0:23:18.360

something missing about our last 10

 

0:23:15.480,0:23:21.600

calibers here the 243 and the 6.5 just a

 

0:23:18.360,0:23:23.460

243 I mean I've took 243s all over the

 

0:23:21.600,0:23:25.740

country I've killed everything from

 

0:23:23.460,0:23:27.840

Bobcats all the way up to black bears

 

0:23:25.740,0:23:31.080

with them you know yeah they're a great

 

0:23:27.840,0:23:32.700

caliber no 6.5 is the same way and if if

 

0:23:31.080,0:23:35.159

somebody wanted to buy their kid a gun

 

0:23:32.700,0:23:37.200

that they could use their whole life and

 

0:23:35.159,0:23:39.000

do everything you know a few whitetails

 

0:23:37.200,0:23:41.820

and shoot coyotes with it would be a six

 

0:23:39.000,0:23:44.220

and it'd be the the six five Creedmoor

 

0:23:41.820,0:23:46.020

the 243 or the my number one on the list

 

0:23:44.220,0:23:47.340

coming but yeah we're to come up on it

 

0:23:46.020,0:23:48.900

just tear them in you ready you won't

 

0:23:47.340,0:23:50.400

say anything else about the six five are

 

0:23:48.900,0:23:52.620

you ready to go to number two no it's

 

0:23:50.400,0:23:54.600

just it's not it it's not a fad it's

 

0:23:52.620,0:23:57.299

here to stay and it's an excellent

 

0:23:54.600,0:23:59.340

caliber yeah I agree with you like I

 

0:23:57.299,0:24:01.140

said you you see some hate coming across

 

0:23:59.340,0:24:06.120

it and some people making fun of it but

 

0:24:01.140,0:24:08.460

the 6.5 Creedmoor is the [ __ ] flat fast

 

0:24:06.120,0:24:10.140

efficient and tips I'm over debt that's

 

0:24:08.460,0:24:11.460

what you want all right you ready you

 

0:24:10.140,0:24:13.740

ready for number two

 

0:24:11.460,0:24:15.360

well it's my favorite it's my all-time

 

0:24:13.740,0:24:20.179

favorite I've shot it more than anything

 

0:24:15.360,0:24:20.179

it's my 22 250. I'm right there

 

0:24:21.799,0:24:27.419

that's exactly right I'm the same way

 

0:24:24.059,0:24:30.240

I've probably shot more coyotes I've

 

0:24:27.419,0:24:32.159

probably shot as many coyotes with a 22

 

0:24:30.240,0:24:34.200

250 as

 

0:24:32.159,0:24:36.720

you know every other caliber combined

 

0:24:34.200,0:24:40.080

you know as far as equaling them out uh

 

0:24:36.720,0:24:43.500

I've always loved it's 22 250 is the

 

0:24:40.080,0:24:47.460

very first uh rifle that I shot I killed

 

0:24:43.500,0:24:50.100

my first guy 22 250. so yep no the the

 

0:24:47.460,0:24:52.140

first in 1997 me and Garvin won the

 

0:24:50.100,0:24:53.220

World Championship we won I think we

 

0:24:52.140,0:24:55.679

split

 

0:24:53.220,0:24:57.720

3 500 bucks between the two of us I took

 

0:24:55.679,0:25:00.059

I took uh four or five hundred dollars

 

0:24:57.720,0:25:02.460

of that money and bought my first Ruger

 

0:25:00.059,0:25:04.320

22 250 and it was the old black

 

0:25:02.460,0:25:06.900

stainless steel with the cut out stock

 

0:25:04.320,0:25:08.580

you know the the skeleton stock I don't

 

0:25:06.900,0:25:12.539

know if you remember those stainless

 

0:25:08.580,0:25:14.340

steel rugers that's the first gun for

 

0:25:12.539,0:25:17.880

predator hunting that I paid money for

 

0:25:14.340,0:25:19.200

right and uh it was the 22-250 because I

 

0:25:17.880,0:25:21.780

just didn't think there was a better

 

0:25:19.200,0:25:25.140

flatter shooting uh harder hitting

 

0:25:21.780,0:25:27.179

caliber than the 22 250 and and I know

 

0:25:25.140,0:25:33.659

they've made them into AR platforms now

 

0:25:27.179,0:25:38.220

and but that gun carried me for 10 15

 

0:25:33.659,0:25:41.100

years and it was the it was my go-to gun

 

0:25:38.220,0:25:43.860

I could from zero to 400 I knew exactly

 

0:25:41.100,0:25:46.080

where it would hit exactly um you know

 

0:25:43.860,0:25:48.360

there was no guesswork

 

0:25:46.080,0:25:49.919

um I didn't lose very many coyotes if I

 

0:25:48.360,0:25:52.740

did lose it I just because I hit him in

 

0:25:49.919,0:25:54.360

the leg or you know it was it seemed to

 

0:25:52.740,0:25:56.880

me that if I put it anywhere in that

 

0:25:54.360,0:25:59.340

chest cavity anywhere close even the

 

0:25:56.880,0:26:01.500

even between if they were head on and I

 

0:25:59.340,0:26:04.020

hit that wiener

 

0:26:01.500,0:26:06.480

um it caused so much damage that I could

 

0:26:04.020,0:26:08.820

uh stand a chance of collecting that

 

0:26:06.480,0:26:10.620

coyote yeah and it's just most of the

 

0:26:08.820,0:26:11.940

coyotes you hit with the 22 250 the

 

0:26:10.620,0:26:14.580

first thing hits the ground is our chin

 

0:26:11.940,0:26:17.000

and Northern or they're Hindi and you

 

0:26:14.580,0:26:19.559

know they say yeah

 

0:26:17.000,0:26:21.620

it's just uh

 

0:26:19.559,0:26:24.419

the 22.

 

0:26:21.620,0:26:25.980

like I said earlier about to 243 the 20

 

0:26:24.419,0:26:27.179

I don't care what comes out in the

 

0:26:25.980,0:26:30.600

future I don't care what comes out over

 

0:26:27.179,0:26:32.400

the next 500 years a 22 250 will always

 

0:26:30.600,0:26:34.200

be

 

0:26:32.400,0:26:36.360

um in the top five it's it's you know

 

0:26:34.200,0:26:38.640

it's royalty in the coyote hunting world

 

0:26:36.360,0:26:40.980

if you ask me the 22-2 feet right listen

 

0:26:38.640,0:26:43.320

I actually the very first coyote I ever

 

0:26:40.980,0:26:48.840

I ever shot when I was in high school

 

0:26:43.320,0:26:51.000

was with my dad's Ruger number one right

 

0:26:48.840,0:26:52.679

he shot that thing like crazy and now I

 

0:26:51.000,0:26:54.480

chewed it punching paper and stuff and

 

0:26:52.679,0:26:55.919

and when we start getting coyotes around

 

0:26:54.480,0:26:58.200

it was the first thing I took I was

 

0:26:55.919,0:26:59.940

pretty limited with just a one shot but

 

0:26:58.200,0:27:01.980

I sure killed a lot of cops it's old

 

0:26:59.940,0:27:03.299

number one and 22 250 and of course I've

 

0:27:01.980,0:27:05.460

owned several

 

0:27:03.299,0:27:08.880

uh 250 since then and I actually

 

0:27:05.460,0:27:11.100

shooting a Ruger American in 22 250 now

 

0:27:08.880,0:27:13.500

um and man I can't say well I know I'll

 

0:27:11.100,0:27:17.039

always have it I know 250 to shoot

 

0:27:13.500,0:27:19.740

yeah I know you've uh you know guys went

 

0:27:17.039,0:27:23.520

to the 65 284 yep

 

0:27:19.740,0:27:26.340

because they could get 22-250 ballistics

 

0:27:23.520,0:27:27.960

with that bigger bullet you know that's

 

0:27:26.340,0:27:30.360

why anybody you know back in the day

 

0:27:27.960,0:27:33.179

that was kind of the you know 15 years

 

0:27:30.360,0:27:35.279

ago a lot of guys went to that 6'5 284

 

0:27:33.179,0:27:36.900

and I really think that 6'5 Creedmoor

 

0:27:35.279,0:27:38.760

kind of filled that Niche for guys that

 

0:27:36.900,0:27:41.279

needed Factory ammo didn't want to hand

 

0:27:38.760,0:27:44.220

load and then the 22-250 if you just

 

0:27:41.279,0:27:46.140

look at the ballistics the the the the

 

0:27:44.220,0:27:49.260

drop

 

0:27:46.140,0:27:51.539

um you just can't get any better for a

 

0:27:49.260,0:27:52.799

coyote caliber than a 22-250 and it's

 

0:27:51.539,0:27:56.159

still

 

0:27:52.799,0:27:58.320

um I guess the reason I went to contest

 

0:27:56.159,0:28:01.500

calling with a 243 is that just had the

 

0:27:58.320,0:28:03.179

heavier bullets more options and I've

 

0:28:01.500,0:28:04.919

actually one of the best coyote Hunters

 

0:28:03.179,0:28:09.120

I know he goes why

 

0:28:04.919,0:28:14.640

he loads 75 grain Hornady

 

0:28:09.120,0:28:15.600

uh Vmax in his 22 250. now it slowed way

 

0:28:14.640,0:28:17.880

down

 

0:28:15.600,0:28:20.640

but he's never he said he's never lost a

 

0:28:17.880,0:28:22.620

coyote so he's loading those probably

 

0:28:20.640,0:28:24.240

still make it go over 3 000 feet per

 

0:28:22.620,0:28:26.340

second and that's one good thing about a

 

0:28:24.240,0:28:29.220

22 250 that I think is probably worth

 

0:28:26.340,0:28:31.860

mentioning is if you are a reloader man

 

0:28:29.220,0:28:34.380

it's hard to mess up a load of a 22 250.

 

0:28:31.860,0:28:36.000

there it's very easy to reload for it's

 

0:28:34.380,0:28:38.299

hard to make it entirely accurate yes

 

0:28:36.000,0:28:40.559

it's hard to make an unaccurate

 

0:28:38.299,0:28:42.360

cartridge you know and so if you really

 

0:28:40.559,0:28:44.100

want to if he said if you really want to

 

0:28:42.360,0:28:44.940

smell I told him I said I've lost he

 

0:28:44.100,0:28:47.039

said well that's because you're shooting

 

0:28:44.940,0:28:48.600

a 50 grain bullet you know if you ever

 

0:28:47.039,0:28:50.760

lose a coyote said it's because you get

 

0:28:48.600,0:28:52.740

that Splash or that light bullet's not

 

0:28:50.760,0:28:54.659

but I said it's going 4 000 foot a

 

0:28:52.740,0:28:56.520

second he said yeah but I'd rather go a

 

0:28:54.659,0:28:58.279

little slower and know the hammer or

 

0:28:56.520,0:29:00.539

Thor's dropping in on him

 

0:28:58.279,0:29:02.760

and so that's why he shoots those

 

0:29:00.539,0:29:05.340

heavier calibers any and he buys these

 

0:29:02.760,0:29:06.960

barrels with a Different Twist now I you

 

0:29:05.340,0:29:09.480

know I can't tell you if it's a one in

 

0:29:06.960,0:29:11.940

12 or you know most barrels are one and

 

0:29:09.480,0:29:13.260

eight and these guys you know these guys

 

0:29:11.940,0:29:15.480

will be laughing at me because I don't

 

0:29:13.260,0:29:17.580

know my Barrel twist rate as to what you

 

0:29:15.480,0:29:20.100

want want to shoot a heavier well I've

 

0:29:17.580,0:29:22.500

actually had I've actually had 22 250s

 

0:29:20.100,0:29:24.059

in the past and one and eights one in

 

0:29:22.500,0:29:27.240

nine so let's say one and eight I could

 

0:29:24.059,0:29:28.799

shoot everything from a 55 grain all the

 

0:29:27.240,0:29:30.299

way up to the 80 grain out of the 22

 

0:29:28.799,0:29:32.340

250.

 

0:29:30.299,0:29:34.740

um yeah it's Ruger American that I have

 

0:29:32.340,0:29:36.720

now is a one in ten twist Barrel so I

 

0:29:34.740,0:29:38.760

can still shoot all that 50 50 grain

 

0:29:36.720,0:29:40.200

stuff we'll still get on up there into

 

0:29:38.760,0:29:43.200

the little bit of heavier stuff in the

 

0:29:40.200,0:29:46.080

60s and price you to 75 just fine too

 

0:29:43.200,0:29:48.600

um you know I I've shot a Hornady uh uh

 

0:29:46.080,0:29:50.460

75 grain ELD something out of and they

 

0:29:48.600,0:29:52.080

sure folder right

 

0:29:50.460,0:29:54.299

well and that's you know we need to

 

0:29:52.080,0:29:55.620

touch on that I I back in the day when I

 

0:29:54.299,0:29:57.419

worked for 100 Specialties we shot

 

0:29:55.620,0:29:58.799

Winchester ammunition and those

 

0:29:57.419,0:30:01.080

ballistic silver tips were pretty good

 

0:29:58.799,0:30:03.240

bullets I I can't you know I'm not I

 

0:30:01.080,0:30:04.919

can't put any knocks on on that

 

0:30:03.240,0:30:07.440

Winchester ammunition but since

 

0:30:04.919,0:30:09.480

switching to the Hornady and when I went

 

0:30:07.440,0:30:13.980

to work for Foxpro and we were Hornady

 

0:30:09.480,0:30:16.620

sponsored I have been so pleased with I

 

0:30:13.980,0:30:18.899

mean the reliability the box to I can

 

0:30:16.620,0:30:22.320

get you know different

 

0:30:18.899,0:30:23.880

um batches I can get different uh and

 

0:30:22.320,0:30:26.039

everything seems to shoot out of these

 

0:30:23.880,0:30:27.539

rugers just money and I've been so

 

0:30:26.039,0:30:30.240

pleased with the shooting that Hornady

 

0:30:27.539,0:30:32.100

ammo out of any of these guns so yeah uh

 

0:30:30.240,0:30:34.080

anybody listen to this podcast if you're

 

0:30:32.100,0:30:36.299

looking to settle in on an ammunition

 

0:30:34.080,0:30:37.740

that really shoots good and does varm

 

0:30:36.299,0:30:38.820

it's perfect you can't get any better

 

0:30:37.740,0:30:41.039

than Hornady

 

0:30:38.820,0:30:44.220

you just can't you got anything else you

 

0:30:41.039,0:30:46.679

want to cover on a 22 254 move on you

 

0:30:44.220,0:30:49.620

just if if I I was a guy out there

 

0:30:46.679,0:30:52.080

looking for a coyote specific

 

0:30:49.620,0:30:53.279

caliber and you wanted one gun that you

 

0:30:52.080,0:30:55.440

were going to dedicate to killing

 

0:30:53.279,0:30:57.659

coyotes with you can't do anything

 

0:30:55.440,0:30:59.700

better than a two twenty two two that's

 

0:30:57.659,0:31:02.640

right 250. they uh they're pretty good

 

0:30:59.700,0:31:04.440

medicine for Bobcats as well I mean oh

 

0:31:02.640,0:31:05.820

they just about blow one up a little bit

 

0:31:04.440,0:31:06.960

on every once in a while but if you

 

0:31:05.820,0:31:08.940

shoot them right through the shoulders

 

0:31:06.960,0:31:11.340

or chest it does really good on Bobcats

 

0:31:08.940,0:31:13.500

day in day out to hide is the you know

 

0:31:11.340,0:31:16.140

if you hit them a little high a little

 

0:31:13.500,0:31:18.600

low you can get those splashes you know

 

0:31:16.140,0:31:20.880

those blowouts but at the end of the day

 

0:31:18.600,0:31:22.440

you Center them up and shoot a 22-250

 

0:31:20.880,0:31:24.720

you're not going to hurt too much well

 

0:31:22.440,0:31:27.840

you ready to move on to number one on

 

0:31:24.720,0:31:29.940

the list well it's really become I I I

 

0:31:27.840,0:31:32.880

can't I can't tell you how much I've

 

0:31:29.940,0:31:34.799

enjoyed shooting a 6mm Creedmoor the

 

0:31:32.880,0:31:36.899

last few years I tell you what I don't

 

0:31:34.799,0:31:38.580

even I don't even own one but this is

 

0:31:36.899,0:31:40.919

the thing you know people's always wants

 

0:31:38.580,0:31:44.100

to key in on the stuff that they

 

0:31:40.919,0:31:45.779

personally shoot uh when I came on with

 

0:31:44.100,0:31:49.140

foxro and actually before you know I

 

0:31:45.779,0:31:52.200

would go uh on hunts with with Mike uh

 

0:31:49.140,0:31:54.779

Cody both of them shooting a six Creed

 

0:31:52.200,0:31:57.480

um yes I saw pretty quick uh the

 

0:31:54.779,0:32:00.179

performance in the field my goodness as

 

0:31:57.480,0:32:03.059

it fold up Childs I have never seen one

 

0:32:00.179,0:32:05.279

even quiver as of yet I don't know

 

0:32:03.059,0:32:07.320

the truth of it is it's a ballistic

 

0:32:05.279,0:32:09.779

sister to a 243 is shooting the same

 

0:32:07.320,0:32:12.659

bullet it's shooting at two to four

 

0:32:09.779,0:32:15.299

hundred foot a second faster probably so

 

0:32:12.659,0:32:18.559

you've got a little bit okay it's a

 

0:32:15.299,0:32:23.279

little flatter and I mean I used to in

 

0:32:18.559,0:32:24.960

1996 uh well in 1990 I got married the

 

0:32:23.279,0:32:26.340

first time and my father-in-law lived

 

0:32:24.960,0:32:28.140

out there in round Mountain Nevada and

 

0:32:26.340,0:32:31.559

that's why I got to learn Nevada so good

 

0:32:28.140,0:32:33.299

and he gave me an old 220 Swift and I

 

0:32:31.559,0:32:35.159

thought the 220 Swift was the best gun

 

0:32:33.299,0:32:37.620

well it's the ballistic it's about the

 

0:32:35.159,0:32:41.580

same ballistic sister to a 22-250 that

 

0:32:37.620,0:32:43.799

the 6mm is to the 243 and I just I love

 

0:32:41.580,0:32:47.460

the 220 Swift and I killed coyos for

 

0:32:43.799,0:32:50.460

years on video with a 204 and it's a

 

0:32:47.460,0:32:54.120

flat shooting caliber but at the end of

 

0:32:50.460,0:32:57.600

the day the 220 Swift the 22 250 the 204

 

0:32:54.120,0:32:59.039

and those I mean the 223 those calibers

 

0:32:57.600,0:33:00.659

have killed more coyotes than probably

 

0:32:59.039,0:33:02.279

all the others combined yet because the

 

0:33:00.659,0:33:05.460

6mm Creed hasn't been around that long

 

0:33:02.279,0:33:08.700

right but I guarantee you for one shot

 

0:33:05.460,0:33:09.539

fold them up out to 400 yards accurate

 

0:33:08.700,0:33:11.580

as hell

 

0:33:09.539,0:33:13.440

you can't get any better than the 6mm

 

0:33:11.580,0:33:15.120

Creedmoor no you just can't they've made

 

0:33:13.440,0:33:17.340

the believer out of me like I said I've

 

0:33:15.120,0:33:20.100

watched I've filmed several coyotes

 

0:33:17.340,0:33:21.779

dropping already this year to the six

 

0:33:20.100,0:33:24.779

Creeds I've killed a few with analog

 

0:33:21.779,0:33:27.899

grab uh Cody's gun or mics what Mike

 

0:33:24.779,0:33:30.779

call out uh that that Precision calls it

 

0:33:27.899,0:33:32.640

Leo or something like that yeah but

 

0:33:30.779,0:33:34.679

anyway you know we'll take that rifle

 

0:33:32.640,0:33:36.899

out and it's made a Believer out of me

 

0:33:34.679,0:33:40.380

quick and and I've told a lot of people

 

0:33:36.899,0:33:42.299

that uh my next rifle that I get will be

 

0:33:40.380,0:33:46.080

chambered in a six millimeter Creedmoor

 

0:33:42.299,0:33:48.179

for sure yep well it's just it really is

 

0:33:46.080,0:33:50.100

that cartridge is special

 

0:33:48.179,0:33:51.360

um it's inherently accurate

 

0:33:50.100,0:33:52.740

um the ballistic coefficient is

 

0:33:51.360,0:33:54.360

fantastic

 

0:33:52.740,0:33:56.399

um it shoots flatter than its cousin the

 

0:33:54.360,0:33:58.980

6'5 Creedmoor

 

0:33:56.399,0:34:02.460

um but the 6'5 Creedmoor takes off it

 

0:33:58.980,0:34:04.019

takes ah the 6'5 overtakes the six at

 

0:34:02.460,0:34:06.320

what four or five hundred yards you know

 

0:34:04.019,0:34:09.300

that 243 bullet doesn't have the weight

 

0:34:06.320,0:34:11.580

retention that the 6'5 does so if you're

 

0:34:09.300,0:34:14.480

gonna shoot stuff over 500 yards you

 

0:34:11.580,0:34:16.440

better shoot the 6'5 Creek right

 

0:34:14.480,0:34:18.480

that's the reason we've got those Fox

 

0:34:16.440,0:34:20.220

Pros we like to call them in close call

 

0:34:18.480,0:34:23.040

them in closer yeah and that's six

 

0:34:20.220,0:34:24.780

Creeds but now you've got bullet options

 

0:34:23.040,0:34:28.020

in the sixth Creed now I shouldn't tell

 

0:34:24.780,0:34:30.899

this on on uh podcast but those guys we

 

0:34:28.020,0:34:33.200

have loaded 58 grain bullets into the

 

0:34:30.899,0:34:39.119

fixed Creed shooting

 

0:34:33.200,0:34:41.520

4160 wow wow and it is a laser beam my

 

0:34:39.119,0:34:43.220

buddy Matt people in Montana is the man

 

0:34:41.520,0:34:46.200

he's the one that loaded them up for me

 

0:34:43.220,0:34:48.839

they're fairly accurate I mean it it it

 

0:34:46.200,0:34:50.099

I don't get dime-sized holes at 100 I'm

 

0:34:48.839,0:34:52.500

getting nickel

 

0:34:50.099,0:34:57.000

size groups at 100 but when it hits a

 

0:34:52.500,0:34:59.160

coyote it is phenomenal

 

0:34:57.000,0:35:00.839

because they don't make it Factory ammo

 

0:34:59.160,0:35:03.240

let's just talk Factory ammo so if

 

0:35:00.839,0:35:07.200

you're talking six Creed you jump right

 

0:35:03.240,0:35:09.720

into those 87 grain V-Max yep and and

 

0:35:07.200,0:35:12.720

it's just money they that's the varman

 

0:35:09.720,0:35:16.800

express ammo 87 grains

 

0:35:12.720,0:35:19.980

um it's beautiful and then I have really

 

0:35:16.800,0:35:22.700

jumped and and then not six Creed I

 

0:35:19.980,0:35:25.200

killed a mountain goat with a 103 eldx

 

0:35:22.700,0:35:29.880

I've killed several whitetails in Texas

 

0:35:25.200,0:35:31.500

with the 103 eldx so I think we've

 

0:35:29.880,0:35:36.660

actually killed some coyotes with that

 

0:35:31.500,0:35:39.300

same bullet too 103 ldx I know uh uh Tom

 

0:35:36.660,0:35:42.180

Austin killed a wolf with a 103 ldx up

 

0:35:39.300,0:35:44.099

in in Idaho and it's just a super

 

0:35:42.180,0:35:46.140

reliable bullet

 

0:35:44.099,0:35:48.420

um it's going to expand every time it's

 

0:35:46.140,0:35:52.079

just it's controlled expansion and then

 

0:35:48.420,0:35:55.800

you got the 108 ELD match bullets

 

0:35:52.079,0:35:58.740

that are just phenomenal I mean guys are

 

0:35:55.800,0:36:02.099

winning matches PRC you know those uh

 

0:35:58.740,0:36:04.380

rifle matches with the 108 uh ELD mat

 

0:36:02.099,0:36:07.380

and I have killed the hell out of coyos

 

0:36:04.380,0:36:10.680

with that 108 ELD match it's a lighter

 

0:36:07.380,0:36:13.500

jacket it does fantastic on coyotes it

 

0:36:10.680,0:36:16.140

kills them DRP right there but man I

 

0:36:13.500,0:36:18.960

centered in on the 105 black ammunition

 

0:36:16.140,0:36:22.200

and that 105 boat tail hollow point

 

0:36:18.960,0:36:24.599

match bullet out of that 6mm Creedmoor I

 

0:36:22.200,0:36:28.260

can get groups touching it looks like a

 

0:36:24.599,0:36:30.480

ragged star five hole and here's the

 

0:36:28.260,0:36:32.400

thing I was going back through all these

 

0:36:30.480,0:36:35.640

videos I miss

 

0:36:32.400,0:36:38.280

I miss all the time and I guess I miss

 

0:36:35.640,0:36:40.320

because every Kyle that comes in the day

 

0:36:38.280,0:36:41.880

I quit getting excited John Collins is

 

0:36:40.320,0:36:43.680

the day I'm going to quit coyote I'll

 

0:36:41.880,0:36:46.040

tell you what you sure you sure make up

 

0:36:43.680,0:36:49.260

for it on a follow-up shot

 

0:36:46.040,0:36:51.480

I have never seen somebody Miss so many

 

0:36:49.260,0:36:54.599

coyotes up close just to fold them up on

 

0:36:51.480,0:36:56.940

a dead run at 300. in my life

 

0:36:54.599,0:36:58.800

no it's I for some reason I like to give

 

0:36:56.940,0:37:00.420

him a chance you know I feel like I got

 

0:36:58.800,0:37:02.760

to give him that warning shot and then

 

0:37:00.420,0:37:06.320

yeah and I I know I've got as many

 

0:37:02.760,0:37:06.320

running coyotes on videos anybody

 

0:37:07.400,0:37:14.579

I love it when I go through our comments

 

0:37:10.020,0:37:16.800

on our uh on our uh shows that uh guys

 

0:37:14.579,0:37:18.180

are uh talking about how you guys need

 

0:37:16.800,0:37:20.280

to go to a shooting school or something

 

0:37:18.180,0:37:22.980

I go when you kill as many when you kill

 

0:37:20.280,0:37:24.480

as many cows as I have on video and I we

 

0:37:22.980,0:37:26.880

got to totaling it up here just a couple

 

0:37:24.480,0:37:28.680

shorts I mean it's 85 to 100 coyotes a

 

0:37:26.880,0:37:30.720

year we're putting on video that's not

 

0:37:28.680,0:37:32.880

counting the cows we go Recreation shoot

 

0:37:30.720,0:37:34.859

and all that that's just coyotes you can

 

0:37:32.880,0:37:36.240

see us and we're gonna admit and I tell

 

0:37:34.859,0:37:37.619

everybody if you ain't missing coyotes

 

0:37:36.240,0:37:38.460

you ain't shooting at a lot of coyotes

 

0:37:37.619,0:37:40.440

so

 

0:37:38.460,0:37:42.359

um go ahead keep the keep the comments

 

0:37:40.440,0:37:43.980

coming but at the end of the day I know

 

0:37:42.359,0:37:46.200

when I'm shooting that 105 black

 

0:37:43.980,0:37:47.880

ammunition out of that six Creedmoor if

 

0:37:46.200,0:37:49.260

I hit that coyote he's probably dead

 

0:37:47.880,0:37:51.480

right there well that's one of the

 

0:37:49.260,0:37:54.240

reasons I want to make sure me and you

 

0:37:51.480,0:37:56.280

were doing this podcast Al because you

 

0:37:54.240,0:37:57.780

know I'd say arguably I mean I know

 

0:37:56.280,0:37:59.760

there's guys out there nobody's ever

 

0:37:57.780,0:38:01.560

heard of it they've seen thousands upon

 

0:37:59.760,0:38:04.200

thousands of coyotes and kill way more

 

0:38:01.560,0:38:07.200

chaos than we do yep there's I mean

 

0:38:04.200,0:38:09.420

four-time world champion and placed in

 

0:38:07.200,0:38:11.280

the top ten how many times in Worlds

 

0:38:09.420,0:38:13.380

you've made it yeah there was only three

 

0:38:11.280,0:38:15.359

times only three times we didn't place

 

0:38:13.380,0:38:17.460

in the top ten and then you know and

 

0:38:15.359,0:38:19.140

that was Bill count us rules we got to

 

0:38:17.460,0:38:20.579

remember now the world championship has

 

0:38:19.140,0:38:22.619

changed and it all happened when Bill

 

0:38:20.579,0:38:25.079

had his stroke and luckily Bill's still

 

0:38:22.619,0:38:27.359

with us I just posted a post on Facebook

 

0:38:25.079,0:38:30.480

we went down there and hunted that uh

 

0:38:27.359,0:38:32.520

Ute mountain with uh John Brown and it

 

0:38:30.480,0:38:34.140

was his son-in-law kind of took over

 

0:38:32.520,0:38:36.960

that and then he got pancreatic cancer

 

0:38:34.140,0:38:39.300

and died on us and and uh it's just been

 

0:38:36.960,0:38:41.460

a bummer but at the end of the day I

 

0:38:39.300,0:38:43.140

learned a lot of what I learned from

 

0:38:41.460,0:38:45.780

guys like Bill count as hunting the

 

0:38:43.140,0:38:47.880

world championship those uh guys can't

 

0:38:45.780,0:38:49.200

understand the grind and it's who puts

 

0:38:47.880,0:38:51.060

the most coyotes in the back of the

 

0:38:49.200,0:38:53.640

truck and at the end of the day when I

 

0:38:51.060,0:38:57.000

tell you that the 6mm Creed the 22 250

 

0:38:53.640,0:38:58.560

the 243 the 6'5 Creed and the two two

 

0:38:57.000,0:39:00.119

three are going to put more coyotes in

 

0:38:58.560,0:39:03.480

the back of your truck or more fur on

 

0:39:00.119,0:39:05.880

your shed they will those aren't and I

 

0:39:03.480,0:39:09.480

don't want to the 22 Creedmoor is

 

0:39:05.880,0:39:10.980

amazing the 6.5 PRC is my number one uh

 

0:39:09.480,0:39:14.400

if I go wolf hunting I'm going to shoot

 

0:39:10.980,0:39:17.000

a six five PRC the 22 parvo our buddy

 

0:39:14.400,0:39:20.339

Corey Groff has got me excited about a

 

0:39:17.000,0:39:23.220

22 parvo over there in Missouri

 

0:39:20.339,0:39:25.140

um you know and and if I go fox hunting

 

0:39:23.220,0:39:27.900

back East I'm going to shoot my 2200 and

 

0:39:25.140,0:39:29.099

the 17 hornets and and uh well that's a

 

0:39:27.900,0:39:31.079

reason you know I was talking about

 

0:39:29.099,0:39:32.880

earlier one make sure you were on this

 

0:39:31.079,0:39:36.420

podcast I mean you've literally done

 

0:39:32.880,0:39:38.579

this for a living for years and if you

 

0:39:36.420,0:39:41.460

it's a it's a total different ball game

 

0:39:38.579,0:39:43.140

when when you're talking about you have

 

0:39:41.460,0:39:44.700

got to kill coyotes you know what I mean

 

0:39:43.140,0:39:46.440

that's that's what we do there's there's

 

0:39:44.700,0:39:48.180

not much room for somebody like me or

 

0:39:46.440,0:39:50.579

you that if you can't kill coyotes right

 

0:39:48.180,0:39:52.980

so well I'm proud that I can say we put

 

0:39:50.579,0:39:54.960

a couple three girls through college and

 

0:39:52.980,0:39:56.480

we Built Homes and we did it hunting

 

0:39:54.960,0:39:59.220

coyotes and Elk but

 

0:39:56.480,0:40:00.480

you've got to you've got to depend on a

 

0:39:59.220,0:40:03.180

caliber you're not going to take a

 

0:40:00.480,0:40:04.740

subpar cartridge one that you know that

 

0:40:03.180,0:40:05.880

coyotes could get away from you're going

 

0:40:04.740,0:40:07.140

to take the best stuff out there

 

0:40:05.880,0:40:09.180

available right

 

0:40:07.140,0:40:11.520

and there's you know government Trappers

 

0:40:09.180,0:40:15.420

government guys they used to the 22 act

 

0:40:11.520,0:40:17.760

2020 22 250 actually improved in the the

 

0:40:15.420,0:40:20.579

you know there's lots of there's lots of

 

0:40:17.760,0:40:22.859

variations to get that 22 Creedmoor is

 

0:40:20.579,0:40:26.280

one way to get a lot more gas out of a

 

0:40:22.859,0:40:29.460

bullet to take that uh six Creed and

 

0:40:26.280,0:40:31.260

Necker down to 22. it's screaming and

 

0:40:29.460,0:40:33.119

there's just so many options out there

 

0:40:31.260,0:40:34.200

for the coyote Hunter at the end of the

 

0:40:33.119,0:40:36.540

day

 

0:40:34.200,0:40:39.540

show me some good Factory Hornady ammo

 

0:40:36.540,0:40:41.520

put it in that 6mm Creedmoor put it in

 

0:40:39.540,0:40:43.800

the six five Creedmoor put it in a 243

 

0:40:41.520,0:40:46.680

put it in a 22 250 put it that two two

 

0:40:43.800,0:40:48.780

three and you're gonna put coyotes and

 

0:40:46.680,0:40:54.180

we've all had the splashes we've all had

 

0:40:48.780,0:40:56.579

the bad shots and and sometimes I I just

 

0:40:54.180,0:40:59.640

think some some bullets I don't know

 

0:40:56.579,0:41:01.859

whether they just blow up in Flight it's

 

0:40:59.640,0:41:03.359

happened I know it has you know I've I

 

0:41:01.859,0:41:05.460

should have killed a coyote several

 

0:41:03.359,0:41:06.780

times it's just something happened not

 

0:41:05.460,0:41:08.640

everything's perfect this this world

 

0:41:06.780,0:41:10.859

ain't perfect but

 

0:41:08.640,0:41:12.839

um you you can Bank on them top five

 

0:41:10.859,0:41:15.180

calibers that that me and you have kind

 

0:41:12.839,0:41:17.940

of zeroed in on those people that do the

 

0:41:15.180,0:41:22.460

job and I'll just recap on number five

 

0:41:17.940,0:41:26.160

is it 223 number four 243 number three

 

0:41:22.460,0:41:29.160

6.5 Creedmoor the number two we've got

 

0:41:26.160,0:41:30.599

there is a 22 250 which sounds like

 

0:41:29.160,0:41:32.220

probably me and you both have probably

 

0:41:30.599,0:41:34.560

killed more coyotes with that caliber

 

0:41:32.220,0:41:37.020

than anything else than the rest yeah

 

0:41:34.560,0:41:39.359

and then number one the six millimeter

 

0:41:37.020,0:41:40.859

Creedmoor now Al do you have you talked

 

0:41:39.359,0:41:42.660

about a few other calibers there just a

 

0:41:40.859,0:41:44.880

little bit mention them do you have an

 

0:41:42.660,0:41:46.579

honorable mention that just say just

 

0:41:44.880,0:41:49.079

barely missed your top five

 

0:41:46.579,0:41:53.220

well the gun I've been wanting to build

 

0:41:49.079,0:41:55.079

is the 22 Creedmoor and I really think

 

0:41:53.220,0:41:56.760

from all the guys that I've been talking

 

0:41:55.079,0:41:59.880

to

 

0:41:56.760,0:42:02.520

um it should be right there the problem

 

0:41:59.880,0:42:04.800

is Hornady won't make Factory ammo for

 

0:42:02.520,0:42:06.960

it because it has pressure issues right

 

0:42:04.800,0:42:10.640

if you get to different temperatures and

 

0:42:06.960,0:42:13.680

and it it has the potential to go south

 

0:42:10.640,0:42:15.359

but I gotta take a guy like Kelly

 

0:42:13.680,0:42:17.640

Jackson some of these guys that have

 

0:42:15.359,0:42:19.560

shot coyotes longer than me even

 

0:42:17.640,0:42:21.300

when they tell you a caliber is the

 

0:42:19.560,0:42:23.280

hammer or Thor you probably ought to

 

0:42:21.300,0:42:24.839

listen in that 22 Creedmoor I think

 

0:42:23.280,0:42:27.000

would be the honorable Manchester I've

 

0:42:24.839,0:42:28.859

uh I just I wish they could standardize

 

0:42:27.000,0:42:31.440

I wish they would make Factory ammo for

 

0:42:28.859,0:42:34.680

it I'd have one I'd have one tomorrow

 

0:42:31.440,0:42:36.599

the 22 Creed actually is my honorable

 

0:42:34.680,0:42:38.220

mention as well I've actually got I had

 

0:42:36.599,0:42:40.980

the opportunity to shoot that caliber

 

0:42:38.220,0:42:42.839

for for about two years straight uh get

 

0:42:40.980,0:42:44.400

a lot of coyotes with it killed several

 

0:42:42.839,0:42:46.320

Bobcats with it it actually does really

 

0:42:44.400,0:42:49.320

well on Bobcats

 

0:42:46.320,0:42:51.240

um it uh I always call it that the

 

0:42:49.320,0:42:52.440

answer you know it's it's always like

 

0:42:51.240,0:42:54.960

we're always looking for something a

 

0:42:52.440,0:42:56.520

little bit more in a cat in a coyote

 

0:42:54.960,0:42:57.780

caliber you know I don't it's just I

 

0:42:56.520,0:43:00.540

think it's just the nature of the beast

 

0:42:57.780,0:43:03.780

but uh the 22 Creed kind of feels that

 

0:43:00.540,0:43:07.440

Gap I was shooting 75 and 80 grain

 

0:43:03.780,0:43:10.800

Hornady elds at about the same speed

 

0:43:07.440,0:43:14.460

that I was shooting a 55 grain 22 250.

 

0:43:10.800,0:43:17.280

so that uh that right there for itself

 

0:43:14.460,0:43:19.140

um right pretty much hold on Coyote's

 

0:43:17.280,0:43:21.480

called on top of the call you can hold

 

0:43:19.140,0:43:24.420

on hair from there all the way out to

 

0:43:21.480,0:43:26.579

you know around 400 yards and that's 400

 

0:43:24.420,0:43:28.619

yards that makes a lot of difference at

 

0:43:26.579,0:43:31.380

the end of the day and hey at the end of

 

0:43:28.619,0:43:33.960

the day how often do you shoot more than

 

0:43:31.380,0:43:36.180

150 200 yards of the coyote I ever shot

 

0:43:33.960,0:43:38.280

it really is probably less than 100

 

0:43:36.180,0:43:40.020

yards I about guarantee it at the end of

 

0:43:38.280,0:43:42.359

the year no I mean if you really dissect

 

0:43:40.020,0:43:44.220

it even out here in the west yes we can

 

0:43:42.359,0:43:47.400

stretch the riflings yes I've shot one

 

0:43:44.220,0:43:48.540

at 680 you know on video in in New

 

0:43:47.400,0:43:50.520

Mexico

 

0:43:48.540,0:43:52.619

um that's my longest on video

 

0:43:50.520,0:43:54.599

um I've tried a couple Grinders and just

 

0:43:52.619,0:43:57.300

just been really close

 

0:43:54.599,0:43:58.920

but at the end of the day most of the

 

0:43:57.300,0:44:02.819

coyotes if they're coming to the fox Pro

 

0:43:58.920,0:44:04.440

you're talking a hundred you know 50 if

 

0:44:02.819,0:44:06.839

I've got the call at 30 yards the

 

0:44:04.440,0:44:09.300

Coyote's going to be at 50 to 150 yards

 

0:44:06.839,0:44:12.960

and every caliber we've mentioned the

 

0:44:09.300,0:44:14.819

223 is dead on at 100 if I and and I

 

0:44:12.960,0:44:16.140

don't know how you sight in John and I

 

0:44:14.819,0:44:19.140

guess it's something we can mention on

 

0:44:16.140,0:44:21.599

this podcast is I cite every one of my

 

0:44:19.140,0:44:23.220

guns one inch high at a hundred yep now

 

0:44:21.599,0:44:25.079

that doesn't always match up with the

 

0:44:23.220,0:44:27.180

box and I love that Hornady puts that

 

0:44:25.079,0:44:29.339

you know if you sight in 1.2 inches high

 

0:44:27.180,0:44:31.460

at 100 you're dead at two and then the

 

0:44:29.339,0:44:34.800

three or four inches at you know

 

0:44:31.460,0:44:37.819

300 and but if I do one inch high at 100

 

0:44:34.800,0:44:40.920

and I've always done it me and garve

 

0:44:37.819,0:44:44.280

that's just been where we cited our two

 

0:44:40.920,0:44:46.140

two threes our 22 250s our 243s our 6mm

 

0:44:44.280,0:44:49.020

creedmores I'm one inch high at 100.

 

0:44:46.140,0:44:51.599

that always puts me dead at two

 

0:44:49.020,0:44:54.780

and then I'm all those calibers I'm only

 

0:44:51.599,0:44:55.740

talking three or three to four inches at

 

0:44:54.780,0:44:59.040

the

 

0:44:55.740,0:45:02.700

300 right and so that's hold on hair to

 

0:44:59.040,0:45:04.579

300. and then four and five you just

 

0:45:02.700,0:45:07.980

each caliber is a little bit different

 

0:45:04.579,0:45:10.560

but at the end of the day everything I'm

 

0:45:07.980,0:45:13.800

shooting at and it amazes me how I can't

 

0:45:10.560,0:45:15.480

judge distance because I'm helping how

 

0:45:13.800,0:45:16.920

many times have you helped your 22 250

 

0:45:15.480,0:45:19.819

and you shoot right over the damn thing

 

0:45:16.920,0:45:22.140

and it's that's the reason

 

0:45:19.819,0:45:24.960

why it could save you a little bit every

 

0:45:22.140,0:45:27.480

once in a while well you think but I'm

 

0:45:24.960,0:45:30.420

here I am and like I told you if I don't

 

0:45:27.480,0:45:33.420

get excited if it if it's still it is so

 

0:45:30.420,0:45:35.579

thrilling to watch a coyote come to the

 

0:45:33.420,0:45:38.280

call you fooled him you you know we

 

0:45:35.579,0:45:39.660

spend we as human beings only get to me

 

0:45:38.280,0:45:41.000

and you were fortunate we get to spend a

 

0:45:39.660,0:45:43.920

few more days than the average guy

 

0:45:41.000,0:45:45.240

pursuing them but um we go out there for

 

0:45:43.920,0:45:46.560

a few days a year and try and take the

 

0:45:45.240,0:45:49.260

hides from these animals that are out

 

0:45:46.560,0:45:51.660

there 365 days a year some of these

 

0:45:49.260,0:45:53.880

coyotes are six seven eight years old

 

0:45:51.660,0:45:55.680

they've been there done it and when you

 

0:45:53.880,0:45:57.540

call them in you want to know that

 

0:45:55.680,0:45:59.220

you've got what it takes to put that

 

0:45:57.540,0:46:02.099

animal on the ground and and maybe

 

0:45:59.220,0:46:03.599

Harvest that hide or or just the thrill

 

0:46:02.099,0:46:05.220

and taking a picture with that animal

 

0:46:03.599,0:46:06.839

that's been eating your neighbor's goats

 

0:46:05.220,0:46:08.520

or whatever you know it doesn't matter

 

0:46:06.839,0:46:10.200

that's the other thing we can get into

 

0:46:08.520,0:46:12.200

semantics of why we do coyote hunting

 

0:46:10.200,0:46:15.180

but it's fun

 

0:46:12.200,0:46:16.680

at Foxboro that's the hardest thing is

 

0:46:15.180,0:46:18.180

the hardest thing is getting on these

 

0:46:16.680,0:46:20.280

coyotes and calling them up you know the

 

0:46:18.180,0:46:22.740

easy part shooting them yeah so yeah

 

0:46:20.280,0:46:25.079

know who Sanson taking a subpar caliber

 

0:46:22.740,0:46:27.359

to finish off the easiest part of the

 

0:46:25.079,0:46:28.800

hunt and uh watch a coyote run off with

 

0:46:27.359,0:46:30.480

a bullet stuck in it you know might as

 

0:46:28.800,0:46:32.700

well shoot something good

 

0:46:30.480,0:46:36.839

um yeah I think it's something that is

 

0:46:32.700,0:46:38.460

probably worth uh mentioning Al you know

 

0:46:36.839,0:46:41.040

it doesn't matter which caliber

 

0:46:38.460,0:46:43.380

cartridge you hunt with you you're not

 

0:46:41.040,0:46:45.599

connecting with your shots it doesn't

 

0:46:43.380,0:46:47.400

much matter what now let's talk a little

 

0:46:45.599,0:46:50.160

bit about the importance of of

 

0:46:47.400,0:46:52.260

practicing with your hunting setup at

 

0:46:50.160,0:46:53.760

the range and practicing from like say

 

0:46:52.260,0:46:55.980

hunting positions you mentioned earlier

 

0:46:53.760,0:46:58.500

about taking a 223s and you and Garf

 

0:46:55.980,0:47:00.599

would shoot thousands of rounds in the

 

0:46:58.500,0:47:02.400

summer for practice and stuff tell us

 

0:47:00.599,0:47:05.460

the importance of that

 

0:47:02.400,0:47:07.619

well I mean we're four-time World Champs

 

0:47:05.460,0:47:09.900

we should be six or seven because a few

 

0:47:07.619,0:47:12.180

things went wrong but honestly the one

 

0:47:09.900,0:47:13.680

year we killed 13 coyotes the team that

 

0:47:12.180,0:47:15.900

beat us checked in 10 minutes ahead of

 

0:47:13.680,0:47:17.640

us with 13. I missed seven coyotes that

 

0:47:15.900,0:47:20.099

year oh man

 

0:47:17.640,0:47:22.339

garve missed uh three

 

0:47:20.099,0:47:25.920

so we should have had uh 10 or 11

 

0:47:22.339,0:47:27.660

coyotes more that year and actually it

 

0:47:25.920,0:47:30.480

was the year Les Johnson won the world

 

0:47:27.660,0:47:32.880

uh we finished fourth with 18 coyotes

 

0:47:30.480,0:47:34.980

the last one was 20. yeah now I'm sure

 

0:47:32.880,0:47:36.540

Les missed some coyotes too you know if

 

0:47:34.980,0:47:38.880

you asked him he probably missed three

 

0:47:36.540,0:47:43.200

or four or five coyotes that day but we

 

0:47:38.880,0:47:47.220

should have come in with uh 39 coyotes

 

0:47:43.200,0:47:51.900

in that contest had we shot clean and uh

 

0:47:47.220,0:47:55.619

or 29 coyotes we only had 18 and uh we

 

0:47:51.900,0:47:57.359

should have beat him and so that loss in

 

0:47:55.619,0:48:00.359

2000

 

0:47:57.359,0:48:03.119

um really put us on a on a trajectory to

 

0:48:00.359,0:48:05.099

practice more with our guns right and

 

0:48:03.119,0:48:06.859

that's when we started shooting and you

 

0:48:05.099,0:48:11.700

know we went from the

 

0:48:06.859,0:48:15.000

uh uh the Remington 788 to the HK uh

 

0:48:11.700,0:48:17.040

630s it's a 223 semi-automatic gun that

 

0:48:15.000,0:48:18.960

looks like a hunting rifle it doesn't

 

0:48:17.040,0:48:21.780

look like anything different and that's

 

0:48:18.960,0:48:24.960

semi-automatic gun that is why I know we

 

0:48:21.780,0:48:27.240

won that uh we won in 97 then we won an

 

0:48:24.960,0:48:29.760

0708 is because we were shooting a

 

0:48:27.240,0:48:31.440

thousand rounds 2 000 rounds of Summer

 

0:48:29.760,0:48:35.760

we were shooting those semi-automatic

 

0:48:31.440,0:48:39.300

guns and we put 11 coyotes in the truck

 

0:48:35.760,0:48:41.400

by 10 a.m one day nice for that 2007

 

0:48:39.300,0:48:42.420

World Championship and I shot three

 

0:48:41.400,0:48:44.640

doubles

 

0:48:42.420,0:48:46.859

and the doubles were two coyotes coming

 

0:48:44.640,0:48:49.079

in I would shoot the female first every

 

0:48:46.859,0:48:51.359

time I'd shoot the smaller coyote

 

0:48:49.079,0:48:53.339

and then as that bolt would cycle I was

 

0:48:51.359,0:48:55.140

on the mail before he'd even spin I

 

0:48:53.339,0:48:57.720

would lay him I was tipping coyotes

 

0:48:55.140,0:48:59.220

right side by side awesome before they

 

0:48:57.720,0:49:02.640

could even move and it was the

 

0:48:59.220,0:49:05.640

confidence when you shoot a gun so much

 

0:49:02.640,0:49:08.040

that it is becomes an extension of you

 

0:49:05.640,0:49:11.040

it doesn't matter the caliber fear the

 

0:49:08.040,0:49:12.240

man with one gun and uh at the end of

 

0:49:11.040,0:49:14.640

the day

 

0:49:12.240,0:49:16.200

that's what I think is most important is

 

0:49:14.640,0:49:17.940

gaining confidence so it doesn't matter

 

0:49:16.200,0:49:20.400

how you cite your gun and you can site

 

0:49:17.940,0:49:22.200

your gun in at uh

 

0:49:20.400,0:49:24.420

at uh

 

0:49:22.200,0:49:26.819

a zero to you know dead on at a hundred

 

0:49:24.420,0:49:28.980

as long as you know where that gun's

 

0:49:26.819,0:49:31.020

gonna hit at 200 300. like we said most

 

0:49:28.980,0:49:31.859

shots are less than that

 

0:49:31.020,0:49:34.740

um

 

0:49:31.859,0:49:36.180

and the guys that practice more I think

 

0:49:34.740,0:49:39.240

you know

 

0:49:36.180,0:49:41.579

I just think the guys that so if you're

 

0:49:39.240,0:49:43.079

shooting off your bipod if you got your

 

0:49:41.579,0:49:45.300

swaggers under that gun and you're

 

0:49:43.079,0:49:47.099

shooting from your chair while you don't

 

0:49:45.300,0:49:49.020

shoot from a bench every time exactly

 

0:49:47.099,0:49:50.339

yes you need to shoot from the bench to

 

0:49:49.020,0:49:52.700

make sure the gun and the load is

 

0:49:50.339,0:49:55.260

accurate right that's first and foremost

 

0:49:52.700,0:49:56.640

make sure it's repeating make sure those

 

0:49:55.260,0:49:58.380

bullets are touching now you're going to

 

0:49:56.640,0:50:00.720

have flyers and not every bullet's the

 

0:49:58.380,0:50:03.599

same and there is there is you know

 

0:50:00.720,0:50:05.160

those those kind of factors but shoot

 

0:50:03.599,0:50:07.980

from a bench make sure the gun's

 

0:50:05.160,0:50:09.359

accurate then shoot your setup that

 

0:50:07.980,0:50:11.819

you're going to be on the mountain with

 

0:50:09.359,0:50:13.980

on the out in that field

 

0:50:11.819,0:50:16.859

you know prop yourself up against the

 

0:50:13.980,0:50:20.099

tire a fence whatever put that Target at

 

0:50:16.859,0:50:22.020

100 put a Target at 200 and I'm that

 

0:50:20.099,0:50:23.700

Atlas Steel they make an awesome coyote

 

0:50:22.020,0:50:28.280

Target I've got a couple I've got four

 

0:50:23.700,0:50:33.119

Atlas uh coyote cutouts AR 550 you know

 

0:50:28.280,0:50:35.280

that uh steel and man

 

0:50:33.119,0:50:37.440

I just have so much confidence and

 

0:50:35.280,0:50:40.020

between me you and the fence post every

 

0:50:37.440,0:50:42.720

time the one time I didn't go shoot a

 

0:50:40.020,0:50:44.339

gun before a shoot was actually with me

 

0:50:42.720,0:50:47.520

and Tom Austin going to northern Idaho

 

0:50:44.339,0:50:49.140

or Southern Idaho northern Utah just a

 

0:50:47.520,0:50:51.300

month and a half ago

 

0:50:49.140,0:50:54.000

I didn't shoot my gun and I dropped it

 

0:50:51.300,0:50:55.559

out of the truck that hunt before the

 

0:50:54.000,0:50:57.000

last thing I did was drop my gun out of

 

0:50:55.559,0:50:59.160

the truck when I got home

 

0:50:57.000,0:51:01.200

I didn't go check that gun and it was

 

0:50:59.160,0:51:03.119

four to six inches left and that I

 

0:51:01.200,0:51:06.540

missed two coyotes on video and then had

 

0:51:03.119,0:51:09.059

to shoot my gun and uh in the field and

 

0:51:06.540,0:51:12.480

realized it was off moved it back and uh

 

0:51:09.059,0:51:14.280

you know I like I have dropped a gun if

 

0:51:12.480,0:51:15.960

we really talk about it I have dropped

 

0:51:14.280,0:51:18.599

them rugers out of the truck a thousand

 

0:51:15.960,0:51:21.480

times right and it's the one time I

 

0:51:18.599,0:51:24.480

didn't check it no it I'm hard on stuff

 

0:51:21.480,0:51:26.300

John and that's why I really I really

 

0:51:24.480,0:51:30.000

believe in the in the rugers and the

 

0:51:26.300,0:51:31.940

Hornady and the Foxpro because if if it

 

0:51:30.000,0:51:34.579

holds up to the abuse

 

0:51:31.940,0:51:37.319

it's going all up for anybody

 

0:51:34.579,0:51:38.339

yeah no it's it's going to be good and

 

0:51:37.319,0:51:40.920

and uh

 

0:51:38.339,0:51:42.660

so practice makes perfect yeah I think

 

0:51:40.920,0:51:44.760

that's it now is the time especially

 

0:51:42.660,0:51:46.079

practice in the field like just from

 

0:51:44.760,0:51:47.579

hunting positions because that's when

 

0:51:46.079,0:51:49.500

you find like you said

 

0:51:47.579,0:51:51.300

shoot from a bench and get you some

 

0:51:49.500,0:51:52.920

Trigger Time in you know you've got to

 

0:51:51.300,0:51:55.440

get firm zero but when you start

 

0:51:52.920,0:51:57.540

practicing from hunting positions that's

 

0:51:55.440,0:52:00.000

when you find out what you are capable

 

0:51:57.540,0:52:02.040

of and you uh it really pays off in the

 

0:52:00.000,0:52:05.040

long run in the field it really does

 

0:52:02.040,0:52:08.040

yep and and hey it's been an adjustment

 

0:52:05.040,0:52:12.900

too I went from uh shooting the I've

 

0:52:08.040,0:52:15.240

shot the same pod for about 12 years and

 

0:52:12.900,0:52:17.760

then Swagger come on board and it has

 

0:52:15.240,0:52:20.579

been a little bit of a curve for me to

 

0:52:17.760,0:52:23.400

get used to the swaggers but at the end

 

0:52:20.579,0:52:24.720

of the day they're great and um and

 

0:52:23.400,0:52:27.000

that's the other thing that I really

 

0:52:24.720,0:52:30.059

think a guy I don't think a lot of guys

 

0:52:27.000,0:52:32.760

understand is we really need to have a

 

0:52:30.059,0:52:36.420

great bipod system on a gun you can't

 

0:52:32.760,0:52:39.240

have a half-assed pod sticks are okay

 

0:52:36.420,0:52:40.800

um the old Harris I mean they had their

 

0:52:39.240,0:52:42.359

they had their moments I used to have to

 

0:52:40.800,0:52:44.760

take and modify the Harris to get them

 

0:52:42.359,0:52:47.839

tall enough for me you know but that was

 

0:52:44.760,0:52:51.359

the only bipod available back in in

 

0:52:47.839,0:52:52.920

1997 was a Harris bipod now there's so

 

0:52:51.359,0:52:55.859

many better options out there and that

 

0:52:52.920,0:52:58.020

Swagger makes a couple that qd42 is a

 

0:52:55.859,0:53:00.000

pretty fine shooting system and it goes

 

0:52:58.020,0:53:02.460

all the way up to 72 inches so you got

 

0:53:00.000,0:53:05.579

plenty of heights with some swaggers

 

0:53:02.460,0:53:07.140

yep and I really I can't emphasize how

 

0:53:05.579,0:53:09.180

important that is I don't care what gun

 

0:53:07.140,0:53:12.000

you shoot what ammo you shoot what

 

0:53:09.180,0:53:13.619

caliber you shoot you've got to have

 

0:53:12.000,0:53:15.900

some stability on that gun while you're

 

0:53:13.619,0:53:17.819

coyote hunting with the ability when

 

0:53:15.900,0:53:20.520

that coyote does not do what he you

 

0:53:17.819,0:53:23.400

anticipating to do that you can swivel

 

0:53:20.520,0:53:26.760

and you can shoot that coyote when he's

 

0:53:23.400,0:53:28.319

leading or hauling ass by yet or you

 

0:53:26.760,0:53:30.180

know you've got to have some options

 

0:53:28.319,0:53:32.040

there as we talk about these fine

 

0:53:30.180,0:53:34.619

calibers you're only as good as your

 

0:53:32.040,0:53:36.059

support let me ask you I got one more

 

0:53:34.619,0:53:37.559

question for you before we hang it up

 

0:53:36.059,0:53:39.720

we're about we're pretty much the end of

 

0:53:37.559,0:53:41.760

this podcast but uh I got one more thing

 

0:53:39.720,0:53:45.420

I was wanting to ask you what what would

 

0:53:41.760,0:53:47.339

you pick as the worst coyote caliber I'm

 

0:53:45.420,0:53:49.920

talking about the caliber that makes you

 

0:53:47.339,0:53:51.900

absolutely cringe when you see it

 

0:53:49.920,0:53:53.339

discussed or you show up on a hunt with

 

0:53:51.900,0:53:56.220

somebody and they pull it out their gun

 

0:53:53.339,0:53:59.220

case and then all that six that's six

 

0:53:56.220,0:54:01.859

five Grendel I the the six Arc and the

 

0:53:59.220,0:54:03.839

six Grendel I think is way better than

 

0:54:01.859,0:54:05.640

the 6'5

 

0:54:03.839,0:54:09.059

um you know that six Arc is basically

 

0:54:05.640,0:54:10.800

just a uh uh six five Grendel case neck

 

0:54:09.059,0:54:13.619

down to six millimeter that's six Arc

 

0:54:10.800,0:54:15.359

that advanced rifle cartridge

 

0:54:13.619,0:54:17.339

um I wouldn't hesitate to shoot Kayaks

 

0:54:15.359,0:54:20.460

with that six Arc or a six

 

0:54:17.339,0:54:22.980

a Grendel that's six five I mean

 

0:54:20.460,0:54:26.520

literally I have seen

 

0:54:22.980,0:54:30.300

10 15 coyotes just run away from us

 

0:54:26.520,0:54:31.920

spinning bleeding and it didn't cost us

 

0:54:30.300,0:54:33.059

a world championship the one year we

 

0:54:31.920,0:54:35.339

still won

 

0:54:33.059,0:54:37.680

but we only showed up with 18 coyotes

 

0:54:35.339,0:54:40.020

and Garvin Garvin hit three coyotes on

 

0:54:37.680,0:54:43.020

that that hunt perfect behind the front

 

0:54:40.020,0:54:45.420

shoulder at distance over 200 yards all

 

0:54:43.020,0:54:46.619

three of them and we never picked up one

 

0:54:45.420,0:54:48.900

of those coyotes we couldn't find them

 

0:54:46.619,0:54:52.500

they were bleeding and we could there

 

0:54:48.900,0:54:55.380

was no snow and uh we were on the on the

 

0:54:52.500,0:54:57.420

Navajo Nation out there and uh just that

 

0:54:55.380,0:55:00.119

terrain is not conducive to blood

 

0:54:57.420,0:55:01.500

trailing right and and uh we just

 

0:55:00.119,0:55:04.980

couldn't find those coyotes and that was

 

0:55:01.500,0:55:08.460

it that was I mean we we won that year

 

0:55:04.980,0:55:11.280

but uh it cost us the six five Grendel

 

0:55:08.460,0:55:13.380

and I just hate if I wanted to bang

 

0:55:11.280,0:55:16.079

steel that would be my number one

 

0:55:13.380,0:55:17.700

cartridge it really would I I could I've

 

0:55:16.079,0:55:20.220

never had so much confidence in a gun in

 

0:55:17.700,0:55:22.559

my life from zero to 500 yards I could

 

0:55:20.220,0:55:24.780

bang little tiny six inch steel targets

 

0:55:22.559,0:55:26.460

all day long right and I could bang

 

0:55:24.780,0:55:28.680

Coyotes out to that distance but they

 

0:55:26.460,0:55:30.240

just don't die without with that bullet

 

0:55:28.680,0:55:32.520

and I know guys have gone to the 90

 

0:55:30.240,0:55:34.200

grain bullets and they they say it's the

 

0:55:32.520,0:55:37.319

bullet combination and I just think it's

 

0:55:34.200,0:55:40.380

a speed I want more powder

 

0:55:37.319,0:55:44.460

more speed more bullet and that's why

 

0:55:40.380,0:55:46.859

the 243 the 6'5 Creedmoor the 22-250 and

 

0:55:44.460,0:55:49.020

the 6mm Creedmoor I'll put it ahead and

 

0:55:46.859,0:55:52.440

then that six five Grendel just makes me

 

0:55:49.020,0:55:53.880

cringe brother well that that I can you

 

0:55:52.440,0:55:55.380

know I've not been around at some but

 

0:55:53.880,0:55:57.720

I've heard some horror stories I do know

 

0:55:55.380,0:55:59.700

some guys that really like it but uh I I

 

0:55:57.720,0:56:02.520

don't know if I'd ever see myself shoot

 

0:55:59.700,0:56:05.400

one but highly accurate it'll it'll

 

0:56:02.520,0:56:07.079

shoot all day right and I've you know I

 

0:56:05.400,0:56:09.119

some of the pig hunters got really high

 

0:56:07.079,0:56:11.460

on them and they're you know I think

 

0:56:09.119,0:56:14.400

it'd be great for pigs from zero to 200

 

0:56:11.460,0:56:16.020

yards I bet it Just Smokes pigs but man

 

0:56:14.400,0:56:18.300

when you start changing distance and

 

0:56:16.020,0:56:21.359

stuff it's just it's that bullet speed

 

0:56:18.300,0:56:24.960

combination that uh I just think the 6mm

 

0:56:21.359,0:56:28.020

Creedmoor has an advantage over that you

 

0:56:24.960,0:56:30.540

know grendels and hey for me you know

 

0:56:28.020,0:56:31.740

what I consider the worst cartridge I

 

0:56:30.540,0:56:33.839

actually want to throw a bunch of them

 

0:56:31.740,0:56:36.119

in there uh just because I see it every

 

0:56:33.839,0:56:37.680

once while you see it talked about

 

0:56:36.119,0:56:39.359

um every once while you might think new

 

0:56:37.680,0:56:42.660

Hunter out and they that's what they've

 

0:56:39.359,0:56:44.660

got and it's anything it's Rimfire

 

0:56:42.660,0:56:44.660

um

 

0:56:45.440,0:56:50.040

just stay away from that stuff but yes

 

0:56:48.000,0:56:51.900

they will kill coyotes I've killed

 

0:56:50.040,0:56:54.059

coyote Twitter before in the past yeah

 

0:56:51.900,0:56:56.900

but it's not what I was actually you

 

0:56:54.059,0:56:59.819

know it's just outside

 

0:56:56.900,0:57:01.559

exactly you know you can you can kill

 

0:56:59.819,0:57:04.260

them with anything but at the end of the

 

0:57:01.559,0:57:06.839

day we're talking the cartridges that

 

0:57:04.260,0:57:08.880

the guys you know the guys that really

 

0:57:06.839,0:57:11.579

do this the contest callers the the

 

0:57:08.880,0:57:13.619

video guys I know everybody you can Bank

 

0:57:11.579,0:57:15.900

on our top five and and John Collins

 

0:57:13.619,0:57:19.500

it's been a it's been awesome

 

0:57:15.900,0:57:22.079

yep just to uh chew the fat with you on

 

0:57:19.500,0:57:23.640

this podcast been a great podcast it's

 

0:57:22.079,0:57:26.040

been a fun one I like talking about all

 

0:57:23.640,0:57:27.960

these calibers and uh you know just to

 

0:57:26.040,0:57:32.119

recap them one more time number five was

 

0:57:27.960,0:57:36.480

223 number four 243 number three 6.5

 

0:57:32.119,0:57:39.359

Creedmoor number two 22 250 number one

 

0:57:36.480,0:57:41.040

the six millimeter Creedmoor you got

 

0:57:39.359,0:57:42.540

anything else you'd like to say out uh

 

0:57:41.040,0:57:44.400

before we get off here just like you

 

0:57:42.540,0:57:45.839

said earlier if if we didn't mention

 

0:57:44.400,0:57:48.000

your caliber

 

0:57:45.839,0:57:50.880

um Shoot Straight shoot more often get

 

0:57:48.000,0:57:52.140

out there and do it more and uh at the

 

0:57:50.880,0:57:55.079

end of the day we're all rolling the

 

0:57:52.140,0:57:56.760

same boat uh if there's one common theme

 

0:57:55.079,0:57:58.380

I think we all need it doesn't matter

 

0:57:56.760,0:58:00.720

whether you're a fur Hunter whether you

 

0:57:58.380,0:58:02.220

hunt chaos 365 days a year like me and

 

0:58:00.720,0:58:03.780

John do we're all rolling the same boat

 

0:58:02.220,0:58:05.640

remember that when you're out in the

 

0:58:03.780,0:58:07.859

field be courteous be kind

 

0:58:05.640,0:58:09.119

stay with them and we're Foxboro we do

 

0:58:07.859,0:58:11.040

it right we do it year round and we're

 

0:58:09.119,0:58:12.960

glad you came to this podcast with me

 

0:58:11.040,0:58:14.940

and John Collins it's been awesome thank

 

0:58:12.960,0:58:16.440

you John yes sir couldn't have said it

 

0:58:14.940,0:58:18.300

any better myself I we hope everyone

 

0:58:16.440,0:58:20.040

enjoyed this episode and we hope you

 

0:58:18.300,0:58:22.339

join us again right here on the Foxpro

 

0:58:20.040,0:58:22.339

podcast