Call it .. but it's not. Who, other than a nut, would attempt coyote hunting with a sidearm?

With my Weatherby .243, I can hold a five shot quarter sized pattern at 100 yards. However, I would not use that for coyote. An open sight lever action ... or semi auto work nicely. I preferred the 30=-30 as it didn't rip up the hides.

You're going to miss a few .. but, it's similar to shooting skeet ... or hunting quail .. you simply have to get your lead corrected. It ain't rocket science. Although, it might be considered nuclear physics to someone that actually hunts coyote with a side arm.

Again, it's not being the best shot .. it's knowing the lead. I shot skeet with Boyd Wickham, back in the eighties ... I believe he held the .410 world record, established during a shoot-off, at the NSSA in San Antonio .. in the late seventies. I don't know about it now, but it still was the record in the late nineties. At many a tournament, I've run 100 open bore .. twice in 28 ... NEVER in .410. Wickham''s record shoot off .. was 243. So, even the second place went to someone that nailed 242.

A sniper, with the proper sights and adjustment, can pick a small target at five hundred yards (plus) but I know a sniper (rated as such) that cannot even run the full 100 in international skeet? The day that I shot with him .. he didn't even run a round (25). Why? Because he is not trained on lead.

I used to know a man that, with a .22 rim fire, that could break 22 out of 25 shooting skeet. That's a shot .. remember those clays are flying at around 55 mph, American skeet and around 65 mph for international skeet.

Call bullchit all that you desire ... I am nowhere as good as the man with the .22 on hitting the eight stations, but dropping a coyote from a moving vehicle ain't that tough.