RE: Anyone use 6mms for predators
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.