What grain for 22-250!!!

[KSdeerhuntr]

What grain should I use in my 22-250 when I mainly shoot coyotes with it? I still want good velocities and I will regularly be shooting out to 400 or 500 yds.

[kinny]

You will want to shoot the heaviest bullet that your gun will shoot accurately. If you have the standard 1 in 14" twist that will probably limit you to 50-52 grain bullets. I have not had any luck shooting 55 grain bullets with that particular twist rate. You need to get out and do some shooting to find out for sure. Good luck.

[Wolf killer]

If you handload? I have had great luck with Sierra 52-grain Hollow Point Boattail MatchKings. The Matchking bullet was designed to shoot paper. I have used them with greatresults on coyote, fox,prairie dogs & gophers.

[Roskoe]

There are a lot of good coyote bullets for this caliber, but if you are going to be shooting at 400 or 500 yards - you want the bullet with the highest ballistic coefficient possible. In the 1:14 twist common to the .22-250, this would be a 55 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip, 55 Gr. Hornady V-Max, or 55 gr. Sierra Blitzking. Of the three, I would prefer the Sierra by a slight margin.

[blob]

The 45 grain bullet leaves the barrel at just over 4000 FPS and a coyote at 700 yards can't out run it!
Get a big scope though! I use the Speer 70 grain bullet with a good dose of IMR-4320 for about 3500 for deer out to 300 yards.