The suppressor advantage for coyotes

[Patrickjr]

Last year, I was hiking up a wash at first light and happened to notice a yote paralleling me (my presence unknown to him). Was able to stop him in the next opening and drop him at about 40 yards

When i killed him, I was about 50 yards from where i wanted to make my stand, so did it anyways and ended up killing another. Hard to say if this would've or would not have happened unsuppressed but i was pretty jazzed about it

The first dog was an extremely old male that was probably blind and deaf to some degree, who had just caught a big juicy lizard and I got him before he could eat the lizard.

 

[tuffcrk14]

This last winter (first winter with my suppressor) I took my four year old with my dad and I to call coyotes. We called in three different coyotes at one stand. I killed the 2nd coyote, but the other two gave me bad angles and I hit a strand of barbed wire both times with my bullet. Couldn’t do that again if I tried! Definitely changing how I set my stand up there next time. Anyways, there were a few inches of fresh powder on the ground and that coupled with my suppressor made it sound honest to god like a 22lr. My dad was set up about 100 yards away and he said it hardly sounded like a gunshot. Later on that day as we took an old two track trail out of there and saw a coyote 400 yards out in a stubble field so I pull over and shoot at him a few times, but missed. The biggest difference I noticed there was that he didn’t completely un-ass himself out of there when I shot at him a few times. He just left at a slow lope. Having a suppressor is a game changer in my opinion for sure.

 

[Mattman215]

I have called in multiple to one stand, I think the supressor helped in those cases.
I feel I can call stands closer with a can, I don’t know if I could call back to back stands so close without a can as I always hunt with cans.
So very feelings based I guess.
My ears do not ring and I do not need ear protection, that is a big benefit in itself.

 

[Coyote Commander]

Besides any advantages they may offer to hunting, shooting suppressed is just more pleasurable. And if bet most people shoot even small cartridge stuff better when suppressed.


Overall I say there’s a definite value to them.

Do they turn every double and triple into an easy shoot? Absolutely not.

Do they maybe help keep that coyote calm that’s a mile away and huntable on the next stand that morning instead of all alert and jumpy from a distant shot, absolutely.


I’m still amazed at how much atmospheric conditions affect the sound.
Shoot one morning and you’ll think man that seemed loud. Same rig the next morning sounds much much quieter. Same is true down range too.

 

[919]

I would hunt with a suppressor for your own sake if nothing else

 

[ZeroFoxGiven]

We won’t ever hunt un-suppressed anymore. For us it comes down to 3 things:

• Protecting our hearing
• Not disturbing landowners at night
• Higher chance of follow up shots