Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles 75 gr 6mm Sierra HP for yotes?

Anyone have any experience with this bullet on coyotes at 243 win or 6mm Rem velocities? Got a killer load with VN-160 in my 243 win going and just want to make sure they don't just pencil through. Appreciate it.

bludog

Are these the match king, or game king? Match kings have a thicker jacket, and don't expand as well as the gamekings. I shot a lot of coyotes, wolves, and deer with the 6 mm 85 grain Sierra gameking. I always got good penetration and reliable expansion. Not many exit holes in deer, but they died very quickly. I shot quite a few deer using the 52 grain match king in my 222. They didn't open up much, and actually had one to through both shoulders, with a small exit hole. I went to the game king in the 222 and had much better expansion.

Well, I just found out that these are now marketed as "Varminter" bullets so I guess they're designed to take yotes. Mine are older, and the box doesn't specify whether Match or Varmint.

If you are using the non match version, they have a fairly wide hollow point..

I shoot them as they are real accurate... and are capable of being a nice deer bullet on Oregon blacktails..

Like the Speer 75 HP, their wide HP, I'd think would really get a little overly explosive on a coyote.
so I'd think twice about it if I was wanting to retain the hide...

but someone else may sign in and have a different opinion...

I haven't shot a coyote with one.. but shooting smaller stuff and larger stuff, the bullet always really opened
up and there was a fair amount of peripheral damage .. so it would be easy to conclude it would do the same on
a coyote or another animal that size. it sure will explode a prairie dog big time.

might be fine in a 6 x 45, but not a 243 or 6mm Rem, for saving the hide.

They explode groundhogs. Explode.