I have a Savage in composite with the stainless heavy barrel on it, and I wouldn't trade that gun for theworld, I love it. It has a redhead cheapo 3x9x40 scope on it, but it still takes birds off of limbs and fenceposts at 100 yards, with a body shot to the upper body. Any further distance accuracy isn't important to me, the area where I hunt is heavily wooded and I would never get a shot that far off anyway.
I agree with what was said earlier about being too destructive on rabbits and smaller, it leaves an exit wound about 3" across or just explodes the body part. I have never tried any other FMJ or game point though, I'll have to give that a world. As for game it takes, I have killed rabbits, squirrels, crows, doves, armadillos. I have killed 1 hog with it, but it was about a 25 yard shot, and I put it right through the hogs ear and it dropped where it stood, by no means would I recommend this gun for game that big, I just had the oppurtunity for the shot and took it. It dressed out at 95 pounds.
As for coyotes, I have a story for that too, as it is my favorite, albeit the hardest, thing I hunt. In 3 years, I have only been able to call in 2, so they are tricky around here. I shot the same coyote oncein the body, looked like through the lungs or in that area at least from about 80 yards, heturned and started to kind of jog in my direction, I don't think he knew where the shot came from, and I shot him AGAIN from straight on in the chest, and he still kept going.Needless to say, I am sure I hit him, but for coyotes, I think I am going to upgrade to that bushmaster varmint AR-15 in the future in .223. And for the record, I got the second coyote last year, but it was with a 12 gauge and buckshot, about a 20 yard shot.