I have killed a lot of coyotes with every rifle and handgun that I own including both .22 pistols and rifles (.22 Long Rifle) and while it is certainly adequate, it is not ideal.
If you are anticipating close range engagements with coyotes, a shotgun or carbine would be of much better service...
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All brass brand new, never used.
200 pieces of .30-06 Springfield ($110 shipped)
100 pieces of .308 Winchester ($60 shipped)
100 pieces of 7mm-08 Remington ($60 shipped)
Or take all of it for $215 shipped OBRO. Willing to deal more on the whole than the individual lots.
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When it isn't cloudy, windy, snowing, or raining the ground squirrels and rock chucks have been out here in Eastern Oregon.
Got the squirrel pictured below with my High Standard .22 pistol at about 30 yards. I rested over a fence post and got him with the first shot.
The rock chuck was a 200...
Leupold mostly. I do use some Weaver, Burris and Vortex optics as well though.
I have several fixed power scopes still in regular use but have mostly switched to variables. I only have one turret dial scope and that is on the .264 Win Mag but am considering getting another for my .220 Swift.
I’m a sixth generation Oregonian. My father’s side of the family, a French-Canadian trapper homesteaded near my hometown before Oregon was even a state. I have very deep roots here.
So believe me when I say that we have struggled with the idea of leaving our home behind to move to another...
Going to work up a 110 Accubond load for my Remington 700 .25-06 as its getting a new Douglas tube put on. Decided to go with it instead of the Roberts.
My Ruger M77 .22-250 is going to give the 50 grain Hornady VMAX a try once the weather clears.
What will or will not get to go hunting...
I would start with the book recommended OAL and go from there. Nosler’s OAL recommendations have been pretty close if not right on for me in pretty much every cartridge I have used their bullets with.
I used my fathers New Haven M70 in .300 WSM to take my elk last season. It worked very well. Being as I am starting to collect Model 70’s, I hope to end up with both it and the Push-feed .264 Win Mag a long, long time down the road when Dad doesn’t need them anymore.
The .300 WSM is a fine...
Small game hunting is a very under appreciated endeavor. I was elk hunting with my father in law ten or so years back in Eastern Idaho. Fresh snow but not a single fresh elk track in the area. But there were cottontails everywhere. After trading my .30-06 for a .22 in the back seat of my pickup...
The 6.5x55 is the cooler version of the 6.5 Creedmoor! Nice work.
My current only Mauser is a 98 sporter build by JP Sauer and Sohn that was rebored to .35 Whelen!
We recently had a new Douglas tube threaded onto the .264, with a 1-8” twist. It shoots our 140 grain Accubond handloads with H4831 powder into 1/2-3/4” groups at 100 yards.
My experience with the .270 is somewhat limited compared to others here. You could say I’m late to the party as I’ve typically preferred the .30-06 and .25-06 cartridges.
Like Don said, the .270 and 130’s go together like bread and butter. Try 4350 and/or 4831, with any good 130 grain bullet...
Ditto the Accubonds. I have used them in my .30-06 extensively for deer, sheep and elk. They are all I use in the .30-06!!
I have no doubt (and the experience of well seasoned hunters like Guy and Scotty back this up) that the BT’s will perform admirably at the distances you described.