Lots. Rifle's and shotguns. None with a bow (yet).

I've seen a handful thru the windshield but only one with gun in hand, on a deer drive. Trying to hit that thing with a bullet would have been something akin to trying to hit a jet plane with an arrow, I didn't even try. My son killed one several years ago with a 7mm Remington magnum, huge hole thru the boiler room and it still ran another 15-20 yards. They must be tough.

My son shot one Sunday with a .22.

.22 is good to use

Mostly .243, a few with what ever else I was carrying, going to pick up my newborn and wife a few years back I took one with my .357 S&W, all I had in the car, had to take out the long guns to make room for the baby stuff....

2Poppa, What have you found?

I've killed them with a 6.5MM Italian Carcano, a .223, a 25-06, a .270, a 12 guage with #4 buck and with #4 birdshot (very close). I have shot but not killed a couple with a .22 long rifle 40 years ago... I would never do it again because they are too tough... chest shots don't even slow them down and certainly don't kill them cleanly. I respect them too much to shoot at them with a .22. By the way, the #4 birdshot was at 6 yards to the back of the head and he died instantly.

I've shot 15-18 with a Mauser 25-06 and 4 with a 22 Mag., three of the mag. ones last winter. I've never shot one with a shotgun and can't remember trying. I have tried to shoot one with a bow and My hats off to anyone who's pulled this stunt off, very difficult indeed. The 25-06 is definitely more gun than you need and the 22 Magnum is only for the patient close range hunter.

30/06 in south texas

Teodoro-
In one coyote, I found,a ball of fur and feathers mixed together,bigger than a softball,a rabbit and squirrel totally intact,just as if someone had just skinned them,and the upper neck vertebrae of a digested turkey, and a whole field mouse!

That was in just one coyote, that I had shot getting ready to catch another turkey in mid-flight from the ground.

Those predators have a relentless appetite. That's why I shoot one everytime I see one. I opened one up and it had a house cat in it,and there wasn't a house around for miles ...

With my Thompson and Center Muzzleloader

I have shot them with .22/250, 12 gauge slugs(makes a little bit of a mess at 10 yards), .30/06, my favorite to shoot them with is the .22/250 it drops them with a well placed shot.

I've relied on the Rem. 700 Varmint in .22-250 and Win M70 Featherweight in .223 for the past 18+ years. Prior to that, I used a Sako L461 in .222 Rem. For a time in the late '60s, I used a .308 Win., and before that (pre-1965), a .30-'06 topped with a Weaver K10 and using 125-grain bullets. In truth, any accurate reliably accurate rifle I've owned did a decent job, but these were my choices based on their proven performance.

.223 would probably be your best load but a 12 gauge with a coyote load would do well too if you did not want to damage the fur too much.

I killed several. with anything from a .22 rifle, 30-06, 12ga, one with a 9mm pistol and another with a Judge using .410 #4 shot