Anyone use 6mms for predators

[Daniel__]

I looked over the post and haven't seen to many people in favor or use a 6mm for predators...I use to use a 223 and after I won a bull barrel 6mm in a 5$ chance ticket I was very impressed by it...It seems to shoot flatter and tighter groups on the paper from factory loads..Just was wondering if anyone else ever used this caliber and how it compared to other calibers?To me this is a sweet shooting caliber for long distance chuck hunting but haven't had the chance to try it on yotes yet...Actually I wanted to know if anyone have used this on yotes and how it did for them so I know what to expect if they do or don't fall over in their tracks...

[Lanse couche couche]

I've never used a 6mm, but I know someone who does. He has dropped coyotes at 500 plus yards.

[SCOTT78]

I just bought one this spring and i am hoping to take some yotes this winter. What bullets does your gun like?

[North Texan]

The coyotes should drop dead in their tracks with correct shot placement. It's capable of killing coyotes at any range you can hit them at.

[Daniel__]

I only shot like5 boxes out of it this year and last...It was factory rem 80 sp ammo..Furtherest I scrambled a chucks brainwas 283 yrds with that load..Actually that is the furtherest I have ever shot anything other than a doe that was on the other side of a strip mine at 378 yrds with a 7mmRM..But a chucks head is about the size of a soft ball...I don't know if this would be the right gr. for yotes or not..But it does lay the chucks out...It seams to shoot better if I don't clean the barrel ..When I first got it I shot box out of it...Cleaned it and it was off a bit when we went back out to the range again..After about 6 shots thru it,it started to settle down and the pattern tightened up on it again..I didn't clean it out this year after shooting each time and it seams the cleaning of it did loosein it up and thru it off a bit..Not enough to be drastic at100yrdsbut enough for 200 yrds for me to know the difference after cleaning it...

[REM7MMAG]

6mm is very close 2 a 243 in size and performance

[Rammer]

I use my 243 and I absolutely love it on predators. I've done alot of load experimentation with mine looking for the perfect coyote load (anchor them and not make a mess out of the hide). I found that the Hornady 75gr HPs work very well, and the Sierra 70gr Blitz Kings work equally as well. I'm going to work on a 60gr Sierra HP load this summer and see what that can do.

[Rebel Hog]

I use .243

[hardcorehunter]

Awesome round

[HighDesertWolf]

I use a 6mm and absolutely love it, I use it mainly for target shooting and sometimes ill take it yote hunting just being a heavy barrel Rem M700 VLS weighing in at around 11 lbs glass included can get to be a problem carrying it around all day in the scorching heat so normally I favor my savage american classic in 22-250 for coyote hunts.

the load i use in it is very versatile works for everything from targets to coyotes and will even work for the pronghorn hunt i might go on in the fall.
its a 85 grain Sierra BTHP gameking over 38 grains of H4895 in hot tempatures its chronographing a average velocity of 3209 fps have not had a chance to see what it will do in colder weather Im hoping there wont be too much of a velocity drop. I'm affraid any dramtic velocity change might seriously affect my nickle size groups at 200 yards.

I love the fact the 6mm flies so flat I have the gun zeroed 3 inches high at 200 yards which should be about zero for 300 yards and at 100 yards its hitting just under 2 inches high. Its awesome to beable to put the crosshairs dead on with a coyote and beable to know that you will hit it from 0 to 300 yards. I have taken a coyote out to 500 yards with it but even as flat flying as the 6mm it gets a little tricky my first shot must have went right over it I never did see any dirt kick up and the yote didnt even move my second shot was dead on the money the yote folded up right on the spot. when I retrieved the yote the entrance was behind the jaw in the neck.