Up here the cover is thick as well as the coyote hides, we are lucky to get a coyote to stop moving with a bark.
I've killed coyotes with vmaxs for a couple years and I wounded coyotes and damaged pelts for a couple years, vmaxs can kill coyotes but so can 22 rimfires. I switched to soft points and haven't had a coyote go further than 20 yard from where it was shot and no ruined pelts. And we get shots at red and grey foxes up here too, my coyote vmax load destroys a fox, my soft point gives the same entrance and exits on a fox as it does coyotes. Sierra game kings have been superbly consistent for me, weather I hit them in the chest straight on, quartered to me through a shoulder, perfect broadside, fox or coyote .223 entrance and about a half inch to 3/4" exit.
I fully understand and endorse shot placement and discipline but I have a hard time understanding backing up a bullet that you know wont work in certain situations. I know some guys only take head shots or other perfectly placed shots 110% of the time but I need a bullet that works no matter how the stars and sun are aligned or if I hit 3" off of perfect placement.
