Light 7mm bullets for Coyote?

98s1lightning said:

"Don't expect to find a lot at the impact site"

That's a red flag for me, I'm not looking for carnage, I'm looking for a clean entrance/exit. Or clean entrance no exit......not a big bloody mess of hamburger

Thanks for your input I am considering it

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There's probably information out there to contradict me, I just remember it being nasty. And the energy you're putting on a soft meat sack is very high. It's tough because you need some expansion on a very low resistance target, but not hamburger like you say. You're welcome. I hope you take some down.

98s1lightning said:

Maybe I already have a do it all load

I shoot the 150 partition @ 2800

Maybe it will zip right through and not make a mess.

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I was remembering that from your welcome post. I dunno. 2800 is still fast. Might get some and some depending on what you hit.

Every coyote I have shot has been with load suitable for a whitetail. Although, I don't shoot them for their pelts. I just want them dead.

Mark37082 said:

Every coyote I have shot has been with load suitable for a whitetail. Although, I don't shoot them for their pelts. I just want them dead.

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What kind of results did you see?

Years ago, I shot a few coyotes with .270 Win 130gr Core-Lokt and there were no runners. Blew out softball size exit craters when they were hit behind the shoulder.

I'm just getting started and I tried my match load for my 6ARC which is a 108 ELDM at 2530fps. I've shot whitetail with 6.5 ELDM and the loads were very explosive very quick, but mostly internal. I guessed 6ARC and this load would be roughly the same. It wasn't. I ended up getting a 35 yd shot and put a hole in the coyote the size of my palm. I picked up some Barnes LRX to try something that might not be as explosive.

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98s1lightning said:

Maybe I already have a do it all load

I shoot the 150 partition @ 2800

Maybe it will zip right through and not make a mess.

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I'd say you may have pay dirt right there. Go out and shoot a few and report back.

I think you're going the right direction with heavier, solidly built bullets at a slower speed.
Sure, they are made for bigger game but that probably means they won't blow a huge hole in a yote.

Small/fast= explosive, no matter what you do.

I shot coyotes for many years with a 120BT @ 3600 from a STW. Nope, no interest in saving pelts just liked the spray pattern left in the snow.

waspocrew said:

Never too much gun for coyotes - I think you'd be fine with anything except the FMJ. You'll have runners that will eventually die, but you likely won't find them.

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You seriously believe "do not use fmj's"? I guess my decades of using m193 on hogs and yotes that have only 1 time taken more than 1 shot/hit and ran off to die somewhere else can't be true? I've had to shoot either animal twice is as the yote dodged/zig-zagging thru sagebrush as I pulled the trigger hitting it in the backend causing it to sit and a follow-up shot to be administered. m193 has killed hogs up to 400# with 1 shot drt (unsure of distance it was taken as I was 13 at the time). Not a single thing wrong with using fmj's. how many animals have lived and taken more than 1 shot to kill using bullets designed for hunting.......................lots according to this forum and others as most say it didn't expand (hunting bullets) with a kill zone shot.

As far as lite weight bullets go, most any will work fine! Just get 1 that provides the best accuracy! I'm going to load up some 120's (flat-base hp's) for a 7-08.

Reelamin said:

I shot coyotes for many years with a 120BT @ 3600 from a STW. Nope, no interest in saving pelts just liked the spray pattern left in the snow.

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Ditto. If I only had a javelin missile…

Around last Christmas, I picked up 1200 Speer 110gr HP bullets for varminting.
I dialed in a load using pulldown IMR 7383 getting 2960 out of an 18" 7/08 AR10.
Haven't gone yote hunting yet, but I have my loaded cartridges down to 39¢ apiece (not amortizing brass).
I'll let you know how it performs, I should find time to go in June.

120g V Max with 72-73g of R#22, CCI 250 primers in the 7 RM in Rem brass is very accurate and fast, blows up crows and coyotes. The jacket on a 120g Nosler ballistic tip is thicker by design than a 140g Nosler ballistic tip.

Years ago, I shot my first coyotes with a flying trash can of a bullet, the 115g Speer HP, oddly enough they would not blow up jackrabbits, and shot a silver dollar-sized hole through coyotes...where is the fun in that?