[quote]Varqanir wrote:
“Dedicated coyote rifle”: a rifle for dedicated coyotes.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Shit, I honestly think we scared Quasi-Tech off.
I warned him not to get me started talking about guns. [/quote]
Varq, I posted earlier about your opinions on the DPMS Panther Arms LR-.243 and the AR-10 in .243. It is going to be a dedicated coyote rifle, and I have no experience with semi auto rifles outside of a Remington 7400 that I was given as a kid. I wanted a little more pop than a .223, but stepping up to the .308 would be overkill. Looked into the .25/06 and the .22/250 but ammo is a great deal harder to find in those two. If you don’t like the DPMS brand that criticism would also be welcomed.[/quote]
That’s right. Sorry about that. I didn’t mean to ignore your post.
As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I don’t have any strong opinions regarding the various brands of AR rifles. There really are too many to keep up with, and aside from the SIG 716, I just don’t have a lot of interest in the platform.
That said, the AR is a great varmint rifle, capable of fantastic inherent long-range accuracy if you put enough money into it, and don’t care so much about weight. I’ve heard good things said about DPMS Panther Arms, so I wouldn’t worry that you’d be getting a piece of crap.
As to caliber, coyotes are tough little bastards. Pushharder once told a story about shooting a coyote with a .338/378 Weatherby at 225 paces. It failed to kill him, and Push had to track the animal to a frozen river, where he ended up dispatching him with a .45 automatic. So I don’t think .308 is overkill by any means.
It really depends on what calibers you already have, and whether you can get an AR chambered in one of them. I will always suggest the military cartridges, simply because I know that they will always be around, but if you have a rifle chambered in something else (and a supply of ammo for it) then it pays to standardize. Do you still have the 7400? Is it chambered in .243? If so then there you go (then again, if you already have a rifle chambered in that round, why not use that one as your coyote rifle?). If not, then if it were me, I’d get the 7.62 (.308) and load it with something like the Hornady 110 grain VMax I mentioned before.
Well, that’s not true. If it were really me, I would probably wouldnt have a dedicated coyote rifle (i’d rather have one rifle that does a lot of things includi g kill coyotes) but you know what I mean. [/quote]
The 7400 is a 30/06 that I usually let my wife use for deer hunting. I also have a bolt 30/06 that I use personally, or a 30/30 lever that I use as my all purpose gun. Inside 100 it will devastate a 'yote. My major issue here is that I don’t want to tinker with my rifle once I get it set to a particular deer load and would like something a little hotter and faster to bridge the gap between my big .30 cals and my .22 rimfire.
Plus I always want another gun, and since I don’t handload, finding different grain factory ammo that will have a similar points of aim is next to impossible. So I am left treating my guns like golf clubs. I did read somewhere that the DPMS LR line is based off of a SASS type rifle and has some compatibility issues with the AR types.
