I was doing some research recently on the best caliber rifle to consider using for coyote hunting.
Some of the articles and forum posts that I read seemed to indicate that the 204 Ruger caliber was possibly not the best choice for coyote medicine and they tended to suggest other calibers such as .223, 22-250, or .243 and others.
However, I just looked at the listing of stats on a number of various calibers in my Remington's listing of ammo data and unless I am mis-reading this, it looks like to me that as long as .204 Accutip V boattail is used, that the .204 would be a better choice since the .204 energy at 100 yards is listed as 1058 ft/lbs., whereas the .223 energy at 100 yards is listed as only 992 ft/lbs.
Is there something that I am not looking in these charts that would make the .223 (or other calibers) better choices than the .204, other than possibly that the .223 is 50 grains, whereas the .204 is only 40 grains in weight ?
I want to have a rifle that I am sure will do the job on coyotes but I don't want to have to purchase another caliber rifle just for this purpose when I already have a perfectly good Remington brand .204 Ruger.
Thanks.
Some of the articles and forum posts that I read seemed to indicate that the 204 Ruger caliber was possibly not the best choice for coyote medicine and they tended to suggest other calibers such as .223, 22-250, or .243 and others.
However, I just looked at the listing of stats on a number of various calibers in my Remington's listing of ammo data and unless I am mis-reading this, it looks like to me that as long as .204 Accutip V boattail is used, that the .204 would be a better choice since the .204 energy at 100 yards is listed as 1058 ft/lbs., whereas the .223 energy at 100 yards is listed as only 992 ft/lbs.
Is there something that I am not looking in these charts that would make the .223 (or other calibers) better choices than the .204, other than possibly that the .223 is 50 grains, whereas the .204 is only 40 grains in weight ?
I want to have a rifle that I am sure will do the job on coyotes but I don't want to have to purchase another caliber rifle just for this purpose when I already have a perfectly good Remington brand .204 Ruger.
Thanks.