[HuntingFree]

Hey all, I've been having an issue with a large pack of coyotes/feral dogs (20-30 in number) on my ranch attacking my livestock and getting closer to my house/dogs. Three nights ago I shot one with my 20" AR and 55gr speer gold dots trying to get in the chicken coop.

That coyote ran off and I saw it the next afternoon out on the pasture in the pack roaming around with a large hole in its neck where it was hit. Needless to say, I'm looking for a better coyote round.

Any recommendations for bullet selection that would also work well for wild pigs on the property? 1:7 twist 20" barrel is my setup. Distances would be from 0-400yds max.

 

[gunslinger4519]

I don't have any personal experience, but I've seen several articles stating that 77-grain boat tailed hollow points are quite effective for taking out coyotes, not sure about hogs though, I think they have a tougher hide than coyotes.

 

[warbow150]

75 grain Gold Dots if you’re reaching out to 400.

That said, and with respect, the problem with your 55 grain was most likely shot placement rather than bullet selection. Put that 55 grain Gold Dot where it needs to go and I guarantee it’ll work. I’d use 55, 62, or 75 grain GDs for Coyotes with no hesitation whatsoever.

 

['Ol Grandad]

That wasn't the rounds fault.

 

[Scamp57]

With that twist go with the 77 gr Sierra Match King.
Aim for the thorax, (heart lung area) not the neck.

 

[HuntingFree]

75 grain Gold Dots if you’re reaching out to 400.

That said, and with respect, the problem with your 55 grain was most likely shot placement rather than bullet selection. Put that 55 grain Gold Dot where it needs to go and I guarantee it’ll work. I’d use 55, 62, or 75 grain GDs for Coyotes with no hesitation whatsoever.

Yeah, it was sort of a snap shot ,that was the only place I could aim so as not to hit my cows at the trough next to the coyote so it was either that shot or no shot.

 

[AK_Stick]

If you just want to kill them, and don't care if they run off or die in the pasture, just about anything you stick into the chest cavity will do. (We kill quite a few while hog hunting typically just shooting FMJ, but occasionally we'll see a hit dog run several hundred yards.

If you really want something dramatic, any ballistic tip will do the job. Yotes aren't tough.

 

[F14A]

Let the air out of them..

 

[I am Groot!]

If you just want to kill them, and don't care if they run off or die in the pasture, just about anything you stick into the chest cavity will do. (We kill quite a few while hog hunting typically just shooting FMJ, but occasionally we'll see a hit dog run several hundred yards.

If you really want something dramatic, any ballistic tip will do the job. Yotes aren't tough.

Yeah. A heavy ballistic tip "flesh disrupter".

 

[billorights]

Coyotes can choose their own bullets.

 

[Nannyhammer]

If you handload a Speer 52 gr HP will rock their world.........

 

[MarkCO]

77 TMK, SMK are my personal fav for Coyotes. Drops them now out to at least 750 yards.

Ballistic Tips won't do that. I prefer they die at the time of flight past the primer strike.

 

[harleypower69]

I used 62 grain HP In my AUG 3 and it worked great at distance in the desert.

 

[Big Bird]

55 grain Hornady V-max or Sierra Blitz King. You want varmint bullets to expand rapidly and fragment a bunch. A coyote body isn't much bigger than a loaf of sandwich bread once you skin one out...even a big one. You don't need or really want or need heavy bullets for coyotes..

I've killed a ton of them with 50 grain Blitz Kings hand loaded in my .222 Rem and 22-250...

Drops em like a rock.

 

[246203]

Do you want the fur or not is the real question. Just don't skin it and post on Facebook until you are sure it is a coyote.

 

[246203]

22-250 is hard to beat on a 'yote.

 

[wrenrj1]

Coyotes can choose their own bullets.

Anything from ACME will work just fine...

 

[AK_Stick]

Anything from ACME will work just fine...

I dunno, he kept getting back up no matter what they hit him with

 

[Phatso]

I loathe coyotes. Please blast them all.

 

[crkckr]

You could see a hole in the 'yotes neck and think it was bad bullet performance? If you want to nuke the stuffin' out of 'em you need something that will send the bullets much faster than anything that AR can achieve! A 22-250 or a .22 Cheetah will do nicely. Use the same bullet and a few extra grains of powder and watch parts of your crydog go flying!
Cheers,
crkckr