I keep reading about questions of caliber and yardage. I read about head shots only with this caliber or that caliber. I read rebuttals of "you cant always do a head shot". I have a few things to say about that.

I hunt a lot of things. Some of those things being squirrels. 99% of my kills are head shots on the squirrels. The 1% that is not a head shot is a neck shot that removes the head. I am not an olympic champion shooter. I do not have a $3000 rifle set up.

Head shots are VERY possible in most hunting situations. When they are not, wait. If you have a doubt about making a clean kill, wait. The experianced hunter does not pull the trigger on first glance of a moving target.

Back in my youth, my father would give me five rounds to go hunt with. For each kill that I brought home, he would give me one more round. We became very conservative with our ammunition and developed our skills early.

I am no better shot than the next guy in the field. I think I might have more patience than some though.

Now with all that being said. When it comes to Coyote hunting. If you happen to see one while out squirrel or rabbit hunting, and it is close enough to chose which eyeball you want to enter into, by all means, take that shot with your rimfire. But if you are out HUNTING for a coyote, you should probably have a 22 caliber centerfire in hand.

The local yotes have a serious dislike for the HBAR15 and mini14 (both in .223 caliber) but my personal favorite is the 22-250 for a mid-western hunt.

There are LOTS of rounds out there. Some people like one round better than the other for this reason or that reason. this one is flatter. This one is less expensive. This one has better grouping. This one is made by orphans in gondaloushipia and all proceeds go to get their piano lessons paid for. I could list all the calibers and the pros and cons of each as I see them. We would then hear from Al, Bob, Charlie, David, Elmer, Frank, Gunther, Harry, Iomus, Jerry, Ken, Larry, Mark, Nathan, Opus, Paul, Quinten, Raul, Sam, Tiberius, Ube, Victor, Walter, Xander, Yan, and Zaiver about how each of my points are not valid because of this reason or that reason or because they know of a cousin who did this or that and came up with this and that results different.