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Scored a stainless/brown laminate Ruger M77 17 Hornet today! Do any of you shoot coyotes with this cartridge? If so, what ammo/bullet do you use? I don't have any reloading components yet, but they will soon be purchased.
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I've kilt a few with the 20 gr vmax.
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Great! Got three boxes of loaded ammo with the gun. 20gr Vmax is saddled up!
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I'd suggest limiting your shots to inside 150 yds and stay away from the front shoulder bone on a coyote with the v-max.
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Yep, wouldn't expect a 20gr Vmax to do much on bone. Wish I could shoot today. Guess East Texas is in the monsoon season! Been raining for what seems a week, with more to come.
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Probably don't want to shoot the rear shoulder bone either.
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Probably don't want to shoot the rear shoulder bone either. 
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Probably don't want to shoot the rear shoulder bone either. You guys are a hoot! 
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Rear shoulder bones are harder to hit, anyway. 😜
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Who was the knucklehead around here that bragged about shooting deer in the front ham?
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17 Hornet will work, but I would rather use something bigger, like a 17 Mach IV or 17 Rem. Probably a good fox and bobcat cartridge. I would use a HP bullet also instead of a vmax.
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I wouldn't use the hornet for coyotes unless I had tracking snow. The little 20 grain v-max bullet can't even get all the way through a full grown prairie dog at 100 yards. That tells me all I need to know.
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17 Hornet will work, but I would rather use something bigger, like a 17 Mach IV or 17 Rem. Probably a good fox and bobcat cartridge. I would use a HP bullet also instead of a vmax. This^^^
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Who was the knucklehead around here that bragged about shooting deer in the front ham? That is funny!
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I wouldn't use the hornet for coyotes unless I had tracking snow. The little 20 grain v-max bullet can't even get all the way through a full grown prairie dog at 100 yards. That tells me all I need to know. This ^^^^^^^ 17 Hornet will work, but I would rather use something bigger, like a 17 Mach IV or 17 Rem. Probably a good fox and bobcat cartridge. I would use a HP bullet also instead of a vmax. And this ^^^^^^ cept I'd take Bobcat out of the equation,,, but a BIG +2 on the HP.. Depends on where you live but Bobcats can be every bit as big and certainly as hard to kill (if not harder) than a Coyote.
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Yep, I have some HP's on order. There are a lot of bobcats in my area. I'll be using this rifle mostly for them, coons, and crows. But if the occasional coyote comes by, I'll pop it.
When I lived in Virginia, we killed a pile of fox with the HMR and 20 grain HP's. Never saw a coyote out there though.
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