Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Ok - one rifle for coyotes?

when we’re you out there? I live right by the gate.

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ok... my 2 cents worth

.17 Remington with 29 gr Kindler Golds.... or the recently discontinued Hornady 25 gr HP

222 Remington with 50 gr bullet...any 50 grain bullet

.223 with a 50 gr bullet.... like the NBT but all work

.22-250 with a 55 gr bullet..... or a 40 gr V-max pushed HARD

.243 with anything up to & including a 105 Amax

.25-06 with a 100 gr NBT

.270 with a 130 gr NBT

.280 AI with ….. pretty much whatever I happen to be carrying.

I am experimenting with Seafires Blue Dot Loads in a second .22-250 just to see what fun they can be in more 'confined' areas

Try them all & take pictures...…

burt2506

250 Savage topped with Hornady 75 grain VMax fueled by Varget or 3031----87 grain Speers with either powder too. Shoot em out of a Ruger 77 top tang safety with Leupold 3x9. Can get 1" MOA less using a rest, cover 5 shots with palm of my hand shooting off hand at 100 yds, not far off the mark at 200. Like the heavier bullet vs a .224 diameter bullet, distance and wind. Wouldn't mind getting a .223 bolt gun, once in a while take a scope mounted AR out, deadly. Even take my Savage 99G takedown 250 Savage out once in a while if feeling old timey. Same bullets, different powder weights. Stith scoped with a Weaver 330. It'll reach out with good accuracy at shorter ranges.

Just One ,not happening ,223 ,50V/Max 3425 fps ,40V/max,3800 fps. 220Swift,50V/max 3750 fps both sport 26inch bbl's, 243 is always Fantastic 55to 87 grainers ,& don't forget the 25/06 with 100 Nbt's 3500 fps ,26 inch bbl . Great post thks!!!.

Outta of the box Tikka 223......spare mag or two....

Sporter weight 22-250 pushing 50BT as head as possible. Absolute death ray. 22 hole going in and nothing but solid base 22 cal hole coming out. Jelly in between.

I was just gonna type this, but with any 50 grain, plastic-tipped bullet, pushed as fast as possible.

I used the 50 grain Ballistic Tip and it worked but for some reason I preferred the 55 grain Ballistic Tip.

Same kind of kills and same type of exits.

Just one ? Glad i don't have to make that decision. But sometimes i get an urge where i want
to destroy one and turn it into a rag, the one gun and load I would pick is my rem 788 in 308 shooting 110gr v-max with a max load
of CFE 223. Kwooop.

221 Fireball and a Nosler 40 gr BT has always worked for calling. Have kills to 450 yards but obviously closer is better.

22-250. 1in8 twist, 62 grain TTSX Or 62 Bear Claw

IMO coyote shooting is an AR game. Light, fast and handy especially on running game

I live in farm country and in the ‘80’s I figured out the 17 REM was about perfect for fox here as you rarely got a close shot but you could reach out with it a bit, it wasn’t too noisy and the frangible bullets broke up well on frozen ground and snow with a miss. And at 200 yds and beyond it wasn’t destroying pelts.

Our fox are mostly gone now but with a commensurate increase in coyotes, and under the same conditions, the 204 seems about right but you need a boiler room hit from 250 and beyond. I’ve gone to Fiocchi and Federal 32’s both of which my little CZ likes.

If windy, which is often the case, I step up to the 243. Hornady Super Performance 75-gr V-Maxes are very accurate and even more so, though slower are the plain Win 80-gr varmint. The 22-250 would be as good as the 243 but in cutting back on firearms, I’ve chosen cartridges with overlapping application also.

Oh yeah, I do have an AR in 223, and often have three rifles in the truck, and upon spotting a coyote choose one according to wind, whim and conditions, how close or far I think I can get, etc.

Golf bag Theory never lets you down.

we save the coyote hides for money so we don`t try to blow big holes in a coyote we use 60 gr. Nosler Partitions in our 220 Swifts running dogs or calling.

Up here in the high plains of ND, the .22-250 REM is my king.
I have 3 of them that get regular workouts on coyotes. A Model 70 Coyote, Model 70 Sporter, and Model 70 Lightweight.
50 gr. V-Max over Varget @ 3835fps (24" bbl) is big medicine. I have .17, .222, .223 and .243 's in my arsenal. But when I get serious on coyotes, it's the .22-250 hands down.

WB

Preferably a long heavy barreled AR 15 .223 with 45gr jhp
Tournament hunting 7mm rem mag

.243, 49.0gr Superformance, Speer 75gr HP, CCI-200, coal 2.640". Supremely accurate, fast (3,500fps+), and knocks coyotes into next week. Al least it takes me that long to find all the pieces. They also are great for piggies.

I do control work and don't (can't) take hides so that's not an issue for me. If I did hunt for hides, I'd be using a Speer 50gr TNT in my .223. That one doesn't even exit on a broadside body shots on Bobcats. Tiny entrance hole, no exit, and jelly in between.

Ed