Not to start a war by any means but I have tried many dif bullets on coyotes and the most failed results were from ballistic tips...v max was the worst...
My go to in 223 and 22-250 is a 55 gr sp...not even sure the make...I bought an ammo can full of them years ago and have shot just about everything with them...
Around here coyotes never give a clean shot...they hide in brush coming to a call or grass and weeds...they never stand still...the sound of the safety will send them into turbo...so it's usually a tactic of getting a bullet in them spot slow them down enough to get a kill shot...
The 55 gr sp will break bone the v max would just make them run faster...if poorly hit....
Sorry I'm not that great of shot at running coyotes
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