your coyote gun
#14
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004
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RE: your coyote gun
What ever gun i have in my hands when one comes along, is my coyote gun!!
I've shot them with 7x57 mauser, 7 Rem. mag, 8x57jrs, 338-06 imp., 240 wby, 243, i'm not eating them, so i don't care how big a hole i blow through one!!
I did build my 240 Wby. to be my "long range varminter" though. It's a LH Rem. 700 action with a 26" bbl. that P.O. Ackley made and installed for me. It shoots quite well, and "long ago" i managed to win a few "magnum class" bench rest shoots with it.
Drilling Man
I've shot them with 7x57 mauser, 7 Rem. mag, 8x57jrs, 338-06 imp., 240 wby, 243, i'm not eating them, so i don't care how big a hole i blow through one!!
I did build my 240 Wby. to be my "long range varminter" though. It's a LH Rem. 700 action with a 26" bbl. that P.O. Ackley made and installed for me. It shoots quite well, and "long ago" i managed to win a few "magnum class" bench rest shoots with it.
Drilling Man
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Gypsum KS USA
Posts: 1,289
RE: your coyote gun
I use several different guns for coyotes, pretty much anything that I feel like using. I've got four dedicated varmint rifles, but I'll use any of the list below during any given year:
Bushmaster AR-15A4 Stainless target rifle .223 with a 6.5-20x42mm Nikon. (I've got two other AR's that I commonly use for coyotes)
Savage 12FVSS with skeletonized Dragnov target stock .22-250 wth a 6-24x42mm Leup.
Winchester Coyote in .223WSM with Laminated wood stock with 4-16x42mm Nikon
Remington 700PSS .308win with 6.5-20x42mm Nikon
Ruger Single Six .32H&R mag Stainless birdshead 4 5/8"
Savage combo gun .222 over 20ga with Williams receiver peep rear and globe frontsight
Marlin Mod 60 .22lr semiautomatic with 3-9x40mm Bushnell.
Ruger Mark II .22semiautomatic pistol
I also use basically any other gun I feel like...I've even used my CZ550 .416Rigby and a .45-70 Marlin 1895 Cowboy for coyotes.
Bushmaster AR-15A4 Stainless target rifle .223 with a 6.5-20x42mm Nikon. (I've got two other AR's that I commonly use for coyotes)
Savage 12FVSS with skeletonized Dragnov target stock .22-250 wth a 6-24x42mm Leup.
Winchester Coyote in .223WSM with Laminated wood stock with 4-16x42mm Nikon
Remington 700PSS .308win with 6.5-20x42mm Nikon
Ruger Single Six .32H&R mag Stainless birdshead 4 5/8"
Savage combo gun .222 over 20ga with Williams receiver peep rear and globe frontsight
Marlin Mod 60 .22lr semiautomatic with 3-9x40mm Bushnell.
Ruger Mark II .22semiautomatic pistol
I also use basically any other gun I feel like...I've even used my CZ550 .416Rigby and a .45-70 Marlin 1895 Cowboy for coyotes.
#17
RE: your coyote gun
An H&R Handi-Rifle .223 with a Leupold VX-1 Scope on top. Handloaded 45 grain Speed SPT @ about 3200 FPS. Have taken several jack-rabbits with this, but no coyotes to date. Also looking to replace the scope with a 42-50 mm objective when I get the money to do so.
#20
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Posts: 321
RE: your coyote gun
700 Rem Mountain Rifle w/ Shilen 22 inch tube in 280 Rem... 100 gr Hornady HP's moving out at just shy of 3700 fps on a warm afternoon... I've since replaced the 4.5 - 14 X 40AO Leupold with a 6.5 - 20 X 40 AO... old eyes ya know...