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Fiftydriver & Others...recommend a coyote-deer setup, what cartridges?
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<blockquote data-quote="Fiftydriver" data-source="post: 180018" data-attributes="member: 10"><p>The 270 AI is a great round, will get you dang near the same ballistic performance as the 270 Wby Mag. I would not say its a pelt friendly round under 300 yards or so and even at long range, you would need to be very selective on bullets to prevent large exit wounds. </p><p> </p><p>If you hit any sizeable bone, you will get a large exit, no way around it with that level of energy.</p><p> </p><p>To be honest, for a true pelt rifle, a 25-06 AI with a 100 gr TSX would be an interesting combo if the bullet was accurate enough for long range shooting. This bullet will not produce the large exits with most hits but again, you hit bone with these large calibers, you will get a large exit wound.</p><p> </p><p>Thats where the challange comes, having the ballistic performance to get out to the range you want but with a level of energy that will not cause bone explosion if one is hit.</p><p> </p><p>My choice, I would build something like a 6mm-250 or the mentioned 243 and but I would go with a 1-8 twist barrel and drive the heavy VLD bullets to around 2900 to 3050 fps. Ballistically, these will buck the wind better then any other 6mm caliber bullet out there, even the ultrahigh velocity loads. Yes, they drop more but bullet drop is easy and consistant to predict, wind drift is what will make you miss.</p><p> </p><p>There would be no recoil and accuracy is amazing.</p><p> </p><p>While these are a little light on deer put past 400 yards or so, they would work. Its hard to get one round to hammer deer size game but also be pelt friendly on yotes as well....</p><p> </p><p>Kirby Allen(50)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fiftydriver, post: 180018, member: 10"] The 270 AI is a great round, will get you dang near the same ballistic performance as the 270 Wby Mag. I would not say its a pelt friendly round under 300 yards or so and even at long range, you would need to be very selective on bullets to prevent large exit wounds. If you hit any sizeable bone, you will get a large exit, no way around it with that level of energy. To be honest, for a true pelt rifle, a 25-06 AI with a 100 gr TSX would be an interesting combo if the bullet was accurate enough for long range shooting. This bullet will not produce the large exits with most hits but again, you hit bone with these large calibers, you will get a large exit wound. Thats where the challange comes, having the ballistic performance to get out to the range you want but with a level of energy that will not cause bone explosion if one is hit. My choice, I would build something like a 6mm-250 or the mentioned 243 and but I would go with a 1-8 twist barrel and drive the heavy VLD bullets to around 2900 to 3050 fps. Ballistically, these will buck the wind better then any other 6mm caliber bullet out there, even the ultrahigh velocity loads. Yes, they drop more but bullet drop is easy and consistant to predict, wind drift is what will make you miss. There would be no recoil and accuracy is amazing. While these are a little light on deer put past 400 yards or so, they would work. Its hard to get one round to hammer deer size game but also be pelt friendly on yotes as well.... Kirby Allen(50) [/QUOTE]
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