Originally Posted by Ben_Lurkin
Originally Posted by Sheister
There aren't too many bullets out of a 223 that won't kill coyotes long past 300 yards. I've pretty much only been loading 40 grain Ballistic Tips for years and they knock a coyote in the dirt right quick. Starting to test the 50/55 grain Bt's and a bunch of the 53 Vmax, and they seem to about as accurate as the 40's, but I'm not sure how they could be any more deadly.....

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I use that combo atop a case full of AA2200. Those 40 gr Noslers killed every Coyote I ever hit with them. That was with a 22” 12 twist barrel. One of my most memorable shots with that gun/load was with one of my buddies and his dad. We were out varmint hunting and a crow landed atop an old telephone pole about 500 yards away as we were driving a two track trail. I jumped out and used the truck door as a rest, gave it some Kentucky windage, and blew that crow off the pole shooting left-handed; I’m a righty. Even my buddies dad was impressed. He was a Korean war vet - sniper.


Reminds me of a story- We were elk hunting and four of us were scattered along a long ridge watching a canyon where elk had been moving just about every day. About an hour after light a crow must have spotted us and he landed in the top of a huge cottonwood tree down the canyon from us on another ridge and started squawking away. That darned crow wouldn't stop cawing the whole time we were there, so after about an hour we decided it was time to find another area to hunt. Walked down to the truck and that crow was still making a racket about 300 yards away in the top of that tree so I rested on a stump and shot that crow with my 338 WM with 225 Hornadies on board... I think I had enough bullet because before the crow fell out of the tree you could see a baseball sized hole through him to daylight and feathers flying every direction.... everyone in our group got a kick out of that one.....

Bob

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