alright, that's all I needed to hear.

It will primarily be a have fun on the weekends rifle but also used for coyote as I'm not interested in blowing the side out with my .270 (or so I hear it'll do to 'em) so I suppose from those two responses the .223 is the way to go. The guy at the shop and a friend, for some reason, almost had me sold on the 7.62 simply because it's bigger but now that I think about it, I'm not really needing power...