Is there a fur friendly 6 mm?

[David Milisock]

I won a coyote contest which awards me a custom rifle. I’ve been looking at 6 Creed and 6 ARC but I have no experience with 6mm. How many of you guys hunt coyotes with a 6mm? Currently, I’m a factory ammo shooter, but I’m going to be getting into hand loading this year as well.

I will never shoot more than 300 yards in my area

I’m trying to tow the line of dropping them like a sack of yams and keeping nice pelts.

Any 6MM will do the job, shot placement, ACCURACY, a tougher bullett and a decent velocity. I did coyotes at 400-600 yards with old Hornady 90 grain FMJ projectiles at those ranges under 3,000 FPS.

Today an all copper/monolithic hunting bullet might suffice as the body structure of the coyote shouldn't force expansion at 20" barreled 6MM ARC velocities.

 

[AWS]

You can always down load a 243. I have no problems finding components for the ARC. I shot a 6mm-204 for a number of years and have a 6x45 and 6mm ARC now. 55gr NBT, 58gr Vmax and 60gr Sierra have been pretty fur friendly as long as I stayed away from the edges. I'm shooting 75gr Speer HPs out of the ARC right now but have only killed three with it, all facing me and no exit, still waiting for shot cross wise to see how it does.

 

[mike243]

I don't think we are allowed to shoot fmj to do any hunting with, when I was a young man I shot whatever was most accurate in my 22 mag rifle, still not sure I would get a ticket with it but a centerfire might not get a pass. hate to pencil through on any critter, hate tracking jobs.