Howa

Well I think I found a gun I'm gonna get to start out with. I spoke with the gun sales manager at Sportsmans warehouse yesterday who happens to travel all over the country coyote hunting and he recommended that I get the Stevens model 200 in 22-250. They have it on sale for $299 and he said it is a great gun to start out with. It's got a standard barrel and the gun only weighs 6.5 lbs so it's pretty lightweight. The stock is kinda cheap and ugly looking in my opinion so I will probably paint it camo anyway but the guy said it's a good gun, shoots good and can take some abuse which is what I like. I like the fancy looking wood stock guns but they arent practical for me cause I dont want to have to worry about beating them up when I'm out hunting. Looks like I will get this gun to start out with and if I don't like it or coyote hunting then I'm not out alot of money!

http://www.savagearms.com/st_200short.htm
http://www.shootingtimes.com/longgun_reviews/stevens200_041106/index.html< review

If you're gonna use a bipod on that Stevens, you're gonna need to stiffen the stock up to keep it from flexing where the bipod mounts.
Some guys use an aluminum bar and epoxy it in the bottom of the stock, and then some guys just use an epoxy.

For a strictly coyote rifle, I'd opt for a sporter-weight barrel, especially if shots are going to be <300 yards. It'll be a lot easier to carry around, and will allow you to more easily move the rifle if the 'yote comes in from an unexpected direction. Heavy barreled rifles are USUALLY more accurate, but because of the weight and bulk are best suited for static shooting scenarios where you have time to bag it in or set up on a bipod (like prairie dogging).

Also, Minute-of-Angle is a unit of angular measurement. There are 360 degrees (°) in a circle, 60 minutes-of-angle (') per degree, and 60 seconds-of-angle (") per minute. You most often see this form of measurement used for coordinate systems on a sphere (Longitude and Latitude). For instance, the Statue of Liberty sits at 40°41'21.23" North Latitude X 74°02'39.93" West Longitude. The Minute-of-Angle measurement is useful because it is very close to 1" per 100 yards (one MOA @ 100 yards is 1.047197580733"), and can be easily used to describe absolute accuracy without the need to include the range, and to predict group size at any range. So it your rifle shoots 1 MOA that will be a 1" group at 100, 2" @ 200 yards, 3" @ 300 yards, etc... If I said that I shot a 1" group, without stating the range, the information would be useless because I could have shot the group at 25 yards (4 MOA, which is barely adequate, IMO, for a 100 yard deer rifle), or at 400 yards (1/4 MOA, which is outstanding accuracy). But if I say my rifle shoots 1/2 MOA, it doesn't matter how far I was from the target, you still know that it's a very accurate rifle.

Mike

Make sure you are wearing hearing protection because the 22-250 will ring your ears.