Landyboy -
You are overthinking this whole thing, if you go back through the posts you will see one bullet consistently mentioned - 40 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip. They work, they do not destroy hides and they kill like a lightning bolt strike. While the the V-Max are great for PD and gophers they are to frangible for coyotes if you want to minimize hide damage.
Quite overanalyzing and just go shoot things.
As 'Stick would say - "you have been led to water".
drover
