Ultimate Coyote Rifle

[AP2020]

Awesome velocity for a 6mm ARC!

 

[K22]

Makes my Tikka Lite 223 Rem with VX3 4x14 Leupold, 60 Vmax's, and homemade cross sticks look like I am in the stone age of predator hunters. Probably because I am.

But seriously, the biggest challenge I've experienced is calling them in and avoiding getting winded, not hitting them.

 

[AP2020]

Makes my Tikka Lite 223 Rem with VX3 4x14 Leupold, 60 Vmax's, and homemade cross sticks look like I am in the stone age of predator hunters. Probably because I am.

But seriously, the biggest challenge I've experienced is calling them in and avoiding getting winded, not hitting them.

Thermal optics are a gamechanger here in Ohio.

 

[Richard Jones]

Steering away from anything with the word 'ultimate'....

 

[WyleWD]

Thermal optics are a gamechanger here in Ohio.

Them and suppressors..... Totally agree with that. WD

 

[RabbitSlayer]

The ultimate is always the gun in your hand when you see one!

 

[JSH]

A better mouse trap and SAMMI a cartridge and folks think it new.
Just like the 25 Sharps, the TCU’s were around also. Now for all practical purposes folks think the grand old220Russian/ PPC is new.

 

[servant403]

I defer to the most experienced predator hunter I know, my son in law. He has killed more coyotes and fox with all kinds of calibers. But he says everything he has used takes a back seat to his old time cartridge of .243 win. He has a very similar setup shown in the video with those heavy tripods and thermal scopes. I believe almost all of his coyote hunting buddies have abandoned the 22 cals for various 6mm variety cartridges. And using most are using 70-80 grain bullets. He says they are just much more efficient killers for long shots.

 

[AP2020]

I defer to the most experienced predator hunter I know, my son in law. He has killed more coyotes and fox with all kinds of calibers. But he says everything he has used takes a back seat to his old time cartridge of .243 win. He has a very similar setup shown in the video with those heavy tripods and thermal scopes. I believe almost all of his coyote hunting buddies have abandoned the 22 cals for various 6mm variety cartridges. And using most are using 70-80 grain bullets. He says they are just much more efficient killers for long shots.

Indeed.

My 1st centerfire cartridge was the .243Win in a Ruger M77 round top.

 

[servant403]

The 6 mm ARC was designed to be shot in AR style rifles wasnt it? So it might not be fair to compare it to a .243 win because of the .243 win larger case capacity. My son in law has had 223s ,220 swift, 22-250, and 204s. His says none are the devastating killers the .243 is at long range for large coyotes. Were here in western NY and hunt here and the southerntier. Winters are really cold snowy and windy. And he states the larger bullets are just better in the wind to boot.
I just bring this up because the latest and greatest might not really be better than what is in the gun safe already.

 

[AP2020]

The 6 mm ARC was designed to be shot in AR style rifles wasnt it? So it might not be fair to compare it to a .243 win because of the .243 win larger case capacity. My son in law has had 223s ,220 swift, 22-250, and 204s. His says none are the devastating killers the .243 is at long range for large coyotes. Were here in western NY and hunt here and the southerntier. Winters are really cold snowy and windy. And he states the larger bullets are just better in the wind to boot.
I just bring this up because the latest and greatest might not really be better than what is in the gun safe already.

In my Howa Mini Action, 24" Carbon Six Barrel, I am pushing a 75gr Hammer HHT at 3,338 fps using IMR8208 XB-R. Essentially duplicating the 243Win ballistics. Now, this load is NOT SAFE in an AR-15 since it makes pressures at 62,500psi per my Quickloads data.

 

[AWS]

Some of us old timers remember when a single coyote was worth a hundred gallons of gas or a days wages. Funny, we killed them with our lowly 222s, 223s and 22-250s we sure didn't want them blown up or loose them. With what you read and see today it's a wonder we could kill anything.

I still kill a lot of coyotes with my 222 Rem and Leupold 1-4. I shoot a lot of different cartridges for coyotes from 22H to 6.5G, my favorites are still my 222 Rems and going on 20 years now a 22-204.

 

[servant403]

Some of us old timers remember when a single coyote was worth a hundred gallons of gas or a days wages. Funny, we killed them with our lowly 222s, 223s and 22-250s we sure didn't want them blown up or loose them. With what you read and see today it's a wonder we could kill anything.

I still kill a lot of coyotes with my 222 Rem and Leupold 1-4. I shoot a lot of different cartridges for coyotes from 22H to 6.5G, my favorites are still my 222 Rems and going on 20 years now a 22-204.

Oh to be sure those are rounds are still being used everday for that purpose of coyote hunting. No dispute here. Im just relaying info from someone that I consider a coyote hunting fanatic.

 

[alf]

Oh to be sure those are rounds are still being used everyday for that purpose of coyote hunting. No dispute here. I'm just relaying info from someone that I consider a coyote hunting fanatic.

And there's a guy I know that shot 552 coyotes last year, & is over 400 for this year.

His cartridge of choice is a 22-250 with 52 Bergers.

 

[drags]

And there's a guy I know that shot 552 coyotes last year, & is over 400 for this year.

His cartridge of choice is a 22-250 with 52 Bergers.

What state does he hunt in?
Drags

 

[Pawnee Bill]

My ultimate coyote rifle would be the .505 Gibbs double rifle. With that you don't have to worry so much about shot placement, which everyone know is the key to a successful one shot kill.

 

[alf]

What state does he hunt in?

ND

 

[drags]

ND

Thanks Alf.
Drags

 

[drags]

And there's a guy I know that shot 552 coyotes last year, & is over 400 for this year.

His cartridge of choice is a 22-250 with 52 Bergers.

Hello Alf, hunters like that always interested me and people like you with lots of rifles. I have been a Penna. groundhog hunter for 62 years and I thought I was doing good by shooting over 500 groundhogs in the last 6 or 7 years, I only kept records for the last 6 or 7 years but I wish I had kept records for the whole 62 years.
Drags

 

[Clancy]

I’m a pretty successful predator hunter/caller, and I think a coyote rifle should be short and somewhat light, with the weight in the barrel and a high end optic like the Swarovski z5-Z8i.

I’ve shot a lot of 22s and they all give things up to a small or medium 6mm shooting a bullet weighing 60-80 grains.

If you think it’s cool to shoot them at hundreds of yards, then just take whatever you can shoot the best at 600 with, but that’s far from my cup of tea.