After dropping a deer Friday night, the thicket across the field went crazy with howling and baying from coyotes. As I dragged the deer out of the bean field, I ' felt ' something watching me. I turned around and my headlamp fell on two bright yellow/orange eyes watching me. It watched and never really did run off. Although I couldn't positively id it, I feel like that was a coyote in the woods behind me. Anyway, this all has led up to me deciding to attempt to alleviate this farm of a few of its problems.

All this brings me to this....in looking at the ballistics on federal's website, it appears that 22-250 might be the optimum caliber for coyotes. I was thinking either 223 or 22-250 and that's what my buddy and I came up with. At least that what we think by ballistics.

What are some of your thoughts here as seasoned coyote hunters?

Is it so large that it will damage the pelt?

Thank you for taking time to read this post and for responding.