22-250 vs 243 for coyote?
02-10-2006, 05:28 PM
#14
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cheyoming
Posts: 870
RE: 22-250 vs 243 for coyote?
I'm going with the .243 as well. I will put a muzzlebreak on it so I can shoot 200 - 300 times a day and not need surgery.(lol)
I will want to experiment with 75 - 100 gr bullets because I will want one that disintih=grates and does not cause an exit wound.Moneyfor yote hides around here.
~AND~ . . . .243 is legal for deer and Antelopes here.
I will want to experiment with 75 - 100 gr bullets because I will want one that disintih=grates and does not cause an exit wound.Moneyfor yote hides around here.
~AND~ . . . .243 is legal for deer and Antelopes here.
02-10-2006, 05:41 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,695
RE: 22-250 vs 243 for coyote?
Good luck trying not to get an exit wound. For myself with about a 100 kills with the .243 i think I have only had 2 that didnt exit, and this was on deer.
Coyotes are a lot smaller, it's gonna exit everytime.
Coyotes are a lot smaller, it's gonna exit everytime.
02-10-2006, 05:49 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 2,862
RE: 22-250 vs 243 for coyote?
I have been experimenting with coyote loads for 3 years with both my 243s and this is what I have came up with.
3 years ago I was loading Hornady 75gr V-Maxs at max load and the 75gr HPs, blew thru everytime I shot a 'yote.
2 years ago I was shooting Sierra 70gr Blitz Kings, I had about a 50 percent exit wound.
This year I switched back to the 75gr Hornady HPs (they redesigned them with a bigger HP cavity) loaded them around 3200fps (advertised I have no chrony) and I have shot 17 coyotes with them this year, not a single exit hole yet.
I decided to test them on smaller critters to see what happens. The smaller critters were in the form of jackrabbits. They all exited, no matter where I shot them, anywhere from a nickle size to baseball size hole, depending if I hit bones or not.
As long as you load the 243 down a ways exit holes will not be an issue on 'yotes, fox I am not so sure about. I have my gun sighted 1.5" high at 100 yards and I can hold dead on the back of a yote at 300 yards and drop 'em in their tracks.
What do you need a muzzlebreak for? The 243 doesn't kick!?!?! You would be better off buying that pachmeyer (sp) slip over the shoulder pad in my opinion if recoil is that big of an issue.
3 years ago I was loading Hornady 75gr V-Maxs at max load and the 75gr HPs, blew thru everytime I shot a 'yote.
2 years ago I was shooting Sierra 70gr Blitz Kings, I had about a 50 percent exit wound.
This year I switched back to the 75gr Hornady HPs (they redesigned them with a bigger HP cavity) loaded them around 3200fps (advertised I have no chrony) and I have shot 17 coyotes with them this year, not a single exit hole yet.
I decided to test them on smaller critters to see what happens. The smaller critters were in the form of jackrabbits. They all exited, no matter where I shot them, anywhere from a nickle size to baseball size hole, depending if I hit bones or not.
As long as you load the 243 down a ways exit holes will not be an issue on 'yotes, fox I am not so sure about. I have my gun sighted 1.5" high at 100 yards and I can hold dead on the back of a yote at 300 yards and drop 'em in their tracks.
What do you need a muzzlebreak for? The 243 doesn't kick!?!?! You would be better off buying that pachmeyer (sp) slip over the shoulder pad in my opinion if recoil is that big of an issue.
02-11-2006, 07:38 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,695
RE: 22-250 vs 243 for coyote?
You dont need a muzzle brake on a .243. I have a heavy barrell .243 and you can see the animals drop in the scope when you pull the trigger.
Has no recoil, or not much if any.
Has no recoil, or not much if any.
