Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles .243 VLS for coyote hunting????

Gents,
I’m looking at a Remington 700 VLS .243 for coyote hunting. Do you think they’re too heavy?
If not what’s available in the market place. If I buy new I’d like a faster twist .
What’s your thoughts? Also, I’ll be 75 this month
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration
Semper Fidelis
Soup

It will be heavy scoped up, probably 9+ pounds.


If I wanted a VLS it would be an original VLS with checkering and black forearm tip. Not the later beavertail forearm that's wide.

Go 6 ARC and never look back. Hint..................

Big Stick,
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I’m an old guy so not familiar with a lot of the newer calibers
What is the 6 ARC?
Thank you 😊 nice again.
Soup


Down South 68-69

As mentioned, the early VLS are the better ones. Blued steel, bdl style laminate checkered stocks, with the barrel cut back to 24”. Remington gold.

To heavy. You would be better off picking up a sporter weight gun. Might look at a 223 also.

Soup, for a lightweight yote rifle, look into the Tikka. A .223 rem, 22-250, or .243 would all work great, and they would probably be 2 pounds or more lighter than the VLS when scoped up. Good luck with your search.

Basic overview commercial - doesn't HAVE to be AR15 based.




Brownell's has the Howa Mini in 6 ARC Here

Grab a stock of your choosing here.

And you're basically into it pretty decently - financially with something fairly light if you select the right stock.

You can typically find a Howa 1500 Mini Action in 6mm ARC complete rifle, already with a very serviceable plastic stock, for $499. Most reputable gun shops will order one if they don’t have it.

I have 12 rifles chambered in 22-250 that run the full spectrum from light to heavy and long to short. If you're not carrying your rifle very far to your calling site, weight probably isn't a major issue.

I might walk more than a mile, each way, to a calling site, so I prefer a lighter rifle. In this regard my preferred 22-250 is a faux 700 LVSF parts gun that I put together in 2008. The only time that I carry a heavy barrel varmint rifle is when I shoot pdogs and gsquirrels on prairies where I can drive to the shooting site.

My favorite rifle to carry when calling predators since 2015 is a Ruger American Predator in 204 RUG. While not as light to carry as my faux 700 LVSF parts guns in 223 and 22-250, it is very accurate and being slightly muzzle heavy it is easy to maintaining a smooth/steady swing on a moving target.

The 6 ARC is basically an Improved 6PPC,with shoulder pushed forward,to yield more case capacity. It is an AMAZINGLY efficient chambering and I MUCH prefer it to an OEM 700 243 Win at 1-9"-ish. The ARC will make use of better bullets,with exceedingly modest recoil,that retains a pile driving ass. The Mini Howies are a nice path and I've a herd. I'm firmly in the path of aborting the issued plastic bottom "metal" and Dog Schit proprietary magazine,in order to upgrade to JO V2 BDL bottom. Integrity is gained,feed/function improves,rugged reliability is increased and you gain COAL latitude. Win/win/win. Hint.







6.5 Grendel brass is a single pass affair,to arrange ARC,just like others of the ilk. 224 Grendel,6PPC,ARC,243 Grendel. Hint.




I have 'em in Carbon and Walnut both. Let fit/balance dictate what your wallet likes best. Hint.




While I prefer the 224 Grendel,there are no flies on the 6 ARC. Hint.....................

Varmint bullets are usually light and short. You don’t need a fast twister to throw match bullets at 600 yard coyotes. If you do, you won’t kill very many anyways.

Clearly some here have zero reading comprehension skills.

243 will be just fine. Who cares if it isn't the best cartridge for throwing a 120 grain bullet? That's what bigger calibers are for.

Any good varmint bullet will do fine on yotes. Don't even need a fast twist to turn them.

Buy whatever rifle fits and feels best to YOU. If you move locations with a vehicle or ATV and shoot from a bipod, rifle weight isn't even an issue, and would be a benefit.

You are an Amazingly STUPID Fhuqk. Hint.







Just sayin'..................

The 6 ARC or the 22 ARC are fine varmint choices IMO. The cartridges can be AR based or turn-bolt based. I like the 22 ARC for varmints using 60-90 gr loads from 3,350 fps for lights and 2,850 fps for heavies. Can’t go wrong with either.

I've multiples of each,in both Turnbolt and Krunchenticker. Hint.

243 Grendel here,with 105 Smooches in a 8"(have 7" and 7.5" too). Hint.






Fhuqking HAMMER. Hint.................

I don’t need a lesson in killing coyotes from some linked YouTube channel.
Try harder.

Gals who "know" and "do" as "much" as you,will do MUCH better by asking questions,than giving "answers". No need to cite you've never even fhuqking "seen" an ARC,let alone "shot" one,with projectiles cited. Hint.

Fhuqking LAUGHING!.................

More coyotes will get shot without the Arc then with.
Fact.

You Brokedick Whining CLUELESS Fhuqks are a hoot! Hint.

Pardon my simply shooting it all and very often side by each,while you Pretend aloud with your GoogleFu. Hint.




Fhuqking LAUGHING!............