I got to play with my steel coyote silhouette this weekend, and it's a blast ranging, adjusting and shooting, then seeing how far off I was. I've got a Redfield Accurange on the 25 wssm, and it actually works pretty well for ranging, as do mil dots. But it became pretty apparent that at longer ranges the room for error is large, and it's hard to hold steady enough w/o a benchrest to get a good reading. It worked really well out to 350 or so, which is further than you should have to shoot at a called coyote anyway.
The best thing about the Accurange is that the circle happens to be the right size to bracket a coyote (11") at 250 yards. So a quick check will tell you if he's as large as the circle or larger, then no holdover needed. If he's smaller, well (keep calling!) then you need to adjust. Same with mildots, if he's larger than 1 mil, he's closer than 300 yards.
What really surprised me, comparing the Redfield to my Mark AR, both 4-12x, the Redfield was noticably clearer. Which is weird bc the Mark AR is a $500 scope, compared to $219 for the Redfield, both made by Leupold. Also impressed with how hard a 75 vmax out of the 25 wssm hits, makes a pretty good dent even out to 350 yards.
