View Full Version : SIG 556 Nails Another 'Yote
Hot Damn, it simply does NOT get any better than this!:D
Got off work early this Friday afternoon at 2:30PM and drove home.
Got my rifle and went to the barn to get my FoxPro SpitFire and Jack-In-Box and walked down and set up the caller and decoy about 30 yards out in front of me at 4:00PM in the backyard.
Turned on Rabbit Distress on Volume Level #3 and within ten seconds a female 'yote coming running out of the woods straight at me and the caller.
Fortunately I had a round in the chamber and when she ran right up on the decoy I shot her head on between the eyes @ 30 yards.
She dropped dead as a door nail at 4:01PM.
I had not been hunting for 30 seconds and it was all over for this 'Yote!
On top of that, this morning I ordered another FireStorm caller and external speaker to compliment my current setup!
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/Pig%20Plex%20Snacker/Coyote%207.jpg
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/Pig%20Plex%20Snacker/Coyote%207a.jpg
handlebar1980
08-27-11, 12:31
Nicely done. It's still 108 at 4pm here in Oklahoma. It will cool off soon and I'll be out there laying them out to.Very soon
Very nice!
Do you call coyotes very often from your back yard?
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Nice!
Do you keep a flea collar on your rifle? ;)
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Very nice!
Do you call coyotes very often from your back yard?
About once or twice a week.
I shot this super nice black 'yote last time I went out the other week.
Here he is about two seconds before I put a sizzling handload through his heart with my SIG 556 from a laser measured 175 yards out (my blind is adjacent to the large oak tree with the V-shaped trunk straight across in the distance from the game cam)
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/Pig%20Plex%20Snacker/Black%20Coyote.jpg
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/Pig%20Plex%20Snacker/Black%20Coyote%20Watermelon.jpg
Here is the one I got when I went out the time before about ten seconds before a scorching handload burst his heart:
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/Pig%20Plex%20Snacker/Coyote.JPG
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/SuperPerformance%20Coyote/Coyote%20SuperPerformance.jpg
Shot this nice bitch last month @ 195 yards with my old 1972 T/C Contender using a custom 20" 1:7" twist MatchGradeMachine barrel:
http://www.phossil.com/thom/Game%20Cam/Coyote%20Hog/Coyote%20Hog%203.jpg
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Nice!
Do you keep a flea collar on your rifle? ;)
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Nope, but a little tick repellant never hurts:D
That's cool that you have a good spot, so accessible.
gotta do our part to keep the 'yotes in check ;)
We live on a 2,000 acre ranch in North Central Florida not too far from the Suwannee River. I have a conservation easement over the property to protect the Sandhill Cranes, Whooping Cranes, Gators, and such.
The only things that I hunt here are vermin, ie Wild Boar and Coyotes.
We have 175 cows and the coyotes ate 15 calves this past spring, so I shoot them on sight.
I've killed over 200 wild hogs the past two years too.
In Florida, on private land, you can hunt hogs and coyotes all year 'round and at night with a Night-Gun permit, no limit and any legal weapon, no limit on rounds in a magazine either, but I'll have to say that 99.95% of all my kills are one shot.
Shot this one at night while I was coyote hunting and he's in the freezer whole for a nice BBQ:
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/Pig%20Plex%20Snacker/Snacker1.jpg
handlebar1980
08-27-11, 20:26
Skypup. I love that setup you have there. Does that holagraphic sight ever come in handy? Please give us the spec on the whole thing.
I'm really envious.
How well does your WML aid in night hunting/shooting?
About how far out into the night can you shoot with it?
Skypup. I love that setup you have there. Does that holagraphic sight ever come in handy? Please give us the spec on the whole thing.
I am using the Leopold VX-R 1-4-32mm illuminated reticle scope with a 30mm tube on Burris XTR rings with picitanny rails on top of the rings. On top is a Burris Fast Fire Red Dot holographic sight with a 4MOA red dot with zero parallax.
The SIG 556 is an AK-like piston gun, so I am able to fold over the Magpul CTR stock for CQB and use the carbine like a large handgun in the thick stuff, ie stomping after wild boar in chest deep palmettos and scrub brush. That is when I use the Red Dot for less than 50 yards instant shots with the stock folded over
I limit my kills to about 225 yards as that is the max at which I am most accurate shooting unsupported and about the max single shot lethal range of my handloads (Hornady 75 grain BTHP or Barnes 70 grain TSX in LC '09 Brass over 25.0 grains Hodgdon BLC-2 with Wolf SRM primers) in my experience.
The Leopold is a superb illuminated reticle optic for night hunting, as is the Burris Fast Fire, combined they are the best of both worlds day or night!:D
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/Leopold%20Pig%20Plex/Pig%20Plex%20Right.jpg
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/Leopold%20Pig%20Plex/Pig%20Plex%20Right3.jpg
I'm really envious.
How well does your WML aid in night hunting/shooting?
About how far out into the night can you shoot with it?
Using the new Olight M-20X LED with the Cree XM-L U2 bin emitter with 500 lumens, I am able to nail any hog or coyote out to 225 yards and light up their retinas out to 350 yards.
http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG%20556%20Commando/Leopold%20Pig%20Plex/Olight%20M20.jpg
Don't believe anyone that tells you an accurate 5.56mm is not a lethal round, I have killed dozens of hogs over 450 pounds with one shot through the lungs, none made it more than 30 feet from POI.
It is all about shot placement with this caliber (or any other caliber for that matter....).
http://www.phossil.com/thom/TC/Monster%20Hog%20II/Monster%20Hog%20IIA.jpg
BTW, that is NOT a shrunken 556 on that boar!
Excellent! This inspires me to make my SIG 556 a hog gun. How is the HOGplex reticle for holdovers and target acquisition?
I am really enjoying the Leopold Hog scope with Pig-Pex reticle for fast target acquisition and hold overs once you get it dialed in on target @ 50 yards it is right on the money out to 225 yards. It is a superb optic for hog hunting and anything else out as far as you can see day or night. Just pattern it with your hunting rounds on paper out to 250 yards (50, 100, 150, 200 250) and you will be good to go.
I am using the low Burris XTR rings and there is less than a millimeter clearance between the rail and the scope, keeping it as low to the bore as possible.
I had a real nice Burris XTR 1-4 scope with a true ballistic reticule for the 62 grain NATO round, but I replaced it with the Leopold VX-R because the Leopold is about 2 inches shorter and much lighter to handle. We can use any magazine size for hogs, but I just use Lancer's that hold ten rounds for keeping the weight down and magazine interference in the woods. I've never shot more than twice at anything I've killed anyhow.
handlebar1980
08-31-11, 20:48
I am using the Leopold VX-R 1-4-32mm illuminated reticle scope with a 30mm tube on Burris XTR rings with picitanny rails on top of the rings. On top is a Burris Fast Fire Red Dot holographic sight with a 4MOA red dot with zero parallax.thats awsome
SkyPup,
How do you manipulate your weapon light?
with it mounted on the right side, it appears that you are left handed?
No, I am right handed. The controls are on the rear of the torch, I just use my left thumb underneath the forearm.
I have the remote switch control for it, but I hate having the wires laying around and getting stuck on branches when I am walking through the woods, besides it is really easy to operate with your left thumb anyways.
The 500 lumen Olight M-20X is a super sweet torch, I use both red and green filters at night and they work excellent on retinas out to 250 yards.
Here is a review of the Olight M-20X:
http://www.cpfmarketplace.com/mp/showthread.php?255159-Olight-M20S-X-and-M21-X-Warrior-Models-Featuring-the-CREE-XM-L
You can get them from Battery Junction:
http://www.batteryjunction.com/olight-m20s-x.html
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