The great rifle debate

I’ve killed lots of coyotes with a 50 ballistic tip out of a 223. These were all daytime kills. For night time I like 300 fps with that same 50 ballistic tip, out of a 22-250. If hit in the chest, the “run” is very short or zero.
 
Animalaxe said:
I don’t use the 6.5’s for coyotes, but both rifles shoot the Federal varmint load with the 95gr Vmax bullets lights-out. If you’re looking for a good off-the-shelf round for 6.5 CM and coyotes, that would be my suggestion.
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I agree with those 95g V max bullets. I’ve used 22-250 50g Superformance for years and it just seems like more and more I was getting spinners or runners. The second half of this season I gave the Varmint Express Hornadys and my 6.5cm a try and had zero runners…..more times than not the dog just dropped in its tracks. It’s not fur friendly most of the time but it gets the job done.
 
JB338 said:
I agree with those 95g V max bullets. I’ve used 22-250 50g Superformance for years and it just seems like more and more I was getting spinners or runners. The second half of this season I gave the Varmint Express Hornadys and my 6.5cm a try and had zero runners…..more times than not the dog just dropped in its tracks. It’s not fur friendly most of the time but it gets the job done.
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My son traded some wheels and tires for a Seekins PH2 in 6CM. The only bullets he could find in his neck of the woods were 108 ELD-M, so he swapped his thermal from a B14 22-250 to the Seekins and took the new kid out for a spin. The first two kills folded up like puppets with the strings cut and barely twitched. So he did a little research. I guess the match bullets aren’t crimped mid-length so the top half just disintegrates in all directions inside the yote and what passes through looks like a cigarette butt coming out the other side. Small entry, small exit, big mess in between. He hasn’t gone back to the ‘250.😁 So maybe if you have a box of 140 ELD-M’s laying around, they might be worth a try too.
 
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