270 ammo
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fishing4sanity
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I don't have any first-hand experience with these, but if you can find Remington Managed Recoil 115 grs they might work for you. If you reload there are several bullet choices that would most likely be better.
RobertR
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If you reload or could get a friend to reload there are some good rounds. I have used both Speer and Sierra 90 and 100 grain leads and both are highly accurate and are devastating rounds. I use hornadys 110 grain vmax leads and they perform excellent.and the terminal effect is scary. Last year I decided to try them on an antelope. I shot a doe at 300 yards and dropped her where she stood. I hit her high in the lungs and the hydrostatic shock was unreal and just a small hole. You would have to experiment with loads to get the effect you want. The Speer 100 grain jacketed hollow point on gophers or rock chucks is a devastating round and not what you want for coyotes if hole size is an issue.
T Bone
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no such thing as a fur friendly .270 round.
Topgun 30-06
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Any bonded bullet you would use for elk should give a complete passthrough with out much of an exit wound on a coyote.
RobertR
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T Bone no such thing as a fur friendly .270 round.
I beg to differ on this one because I have reloaded the 270 for nye on forty years and I know what it takes to either make a bullet fragment or hold together. I have loaded 90 to 170 grains for the 270 and the premium bullet out of my gun is a 140 nosler ballistic tip. Everyone told me how bad the ballistic tip would fall apart and they were wrong because they didn't know how to load it. I have never had one fall apart and only lost the poly tip. I have never had a hole bigger than a quarter. I think the whole thing is that I was loading reduced recoil loads long before the term was even around.
Good luck in finding the round that works best out of your gun.
I beg to differ on this one because I have reloaded the 270 for nye on forty years and I know what it takes to either make a bullet fragment or hold together. I have loaded 90 to 170 grains for the 270 and the premium bullet out of my gun is a 140 nosler ballistic tip. Everyone told me how bad the ballistic tip would fall apart and they were wrong because they didn't know how to load it. I have never had one fall apart and only lost the poly tip. I have never had a hole bigger than a quarter. I think the whole thing is that I was loading reduced recoil loads long before the term was even around.
Good luck in finding the round that works best out of your gun.
Elkmagnet
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I would probably load down a lightweight tsx. Getting it to go as slow as I can while maintaining accuracy.
sbhooper
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Velocity does as much damage as the bullet when you are talking fur destruction. If you are shooting long range, then the download would not be too good. If you are calling them close, then download as far as is safe with a standard bullet and it will be OK. A downloaded TSX may pencil through like a solid-lost coyote.
I downloaded a .243 years ago for close-in coyotes in the Az desert. It was a 70 grain SX at 2300 fps and it was fantastic out to at least 100 yards. It killed great and did not leave big holes. It will take some experimenting to see what will work for that big of a rifle.
I downloaded a .243 years ago for close-in coyotes in the Az desert. It was a 70 grain SX at 2300 fps and it was fantastic out to at least 100 yards. It killed great and did not leave big holes. It will take some experimenting to see what will work for that big of a rifle.
T Bone
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I base my previous statement on a few years of calling dogs using a .270 win with 150 grn Partitions.
A solid body hit usually tore them mostly in half. A fringe hit left baseball size holes. The best sewing work isn't going to help.
If you're hunting fur, .270 is not the round.
If you're looking to kill dogs, .270 is highly effective.
Go buy a .223 for fur.
A solid body hit usually tore them mostly in half. A fringe hit left baseball size holes. The best sewing work isn't going to help.
If you're hunting fur, .270 is not the round.
If you're looking to kill dogs, .270 is highly effective.
Go buy a .223 for fur.
Mthuntinfool
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If you reload, sierra 90 gr. hollow points in .270 are accurate, but leave a fair sized hole on the off side. like T Bone said, if you want to kill 'em, a 270 works great, but if youre selling them, get a .223 or 22-250
Pinecricker
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Maybe an FMJ?
MinnesotaHunter
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My coyote gun up until recenty has been a .270, and I used to shoot FMJs, and it worked pretty good. A solid hit to the vitals and they were plenty deadly, without significant damage coming out.
VAspeedgoat
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I don't know if I completely agree with this, but my taxidermy friend says shoot em in the guts for anything about fox size because he says bone will open the bullet faster and more violently than soft tissue. I don't like the sound of it though. He did say you gotta hit vitals on coyotes.
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Southwind
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There is less than a 1/16th of an inch between .223 and .277 so I wouldn't worry about the hole difference. Go with one in the 90's range and preferably a bonded bullet and you should be fine.
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You'll probably just have to try a few. I'd be looking at the copper bullets. I've seen a few Accubonds make large holes in deer, especially when pushed above 3000 fps.
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Elkmagnet
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This is kind of a misleading way to look at it, it's more about the force of the impact and speed than bullet diameter.
Southwind
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Not misleading at all, the right constructed bullet at the right speed for the intended game.
A .223 has plenty of potential to tear up fur depending on load and where it's placed.
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