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I am considering picking up a savage axis for, well why not, but seriously thinking about doing some coyote control. I could use my various .30 calish milsurp rifles, but I am not confident in their accuracy potential on smaller targets at longer ranges. My .35 Whelen is just too much gun at closer ranges.

My caliber choices then come down to .22-250 and .243 Win.

Does anyone have a preference with some practical experience? I will be using factory ammo at first, but then rolling my own as I pick up dies and brass.

I MAY take a crack at foxes over the winter as well, but coyotes would be my primary concern.
 
If you are only doing yotes with it, either of those calibers will work.... .243 also gives you a decent backup deer rifle as well.... If you want to do foxes as well, I would suggest a .223 instead, great for yotes and wont cause too much pelt damage on the foxes.....
 
lets try to call them cartridges, boys! My choices would be 6mm or 243 for this purpose. The 6mm having a slight advantage with roll your owns.
 
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I use and Axis in .243 with 55 grain Varmageddon and/or 58 grain V-max. I also have a few loaded up in 95 grain SST for deer. The 55 and 58 grain are smoking fast, just watch the wind.
 
I have a stainless one in 22 250 and it is a laser.I have always leaned to the 22 250.for coyotes. Never lost one that was hit..a thy work for deer as well bit yoy will not get a exit hole moat times.It goes in and just destroys every thing inside. Thy never go to far after taking a 22 250. In the ribs ...Dutch
 
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I have a stainless one in 22 250 and it is a laser.I have always leaned to the 22 250.for coyotes. Never lost one that was hit..a thy work for deer as well bit yoy will not get a exit hole moat times.It goes in and just destroys every thing inside. Thy never go to far after taking a 22 250. In the ribs ...Dutch
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but but but what about those gusts of wind and the noise?
 
No problem with wind and the coyotes are dead before thy hear the boom...lol its not like I am firing hundreds of rounds well coyote hunting.so noise is not a problem. Best shot for me was on a sitting coyote at 500 yards of the hood of the truck.He came out if the woods and stopped sit down and was looking back for the hounds. I put the cross hair on the top of his head and hit him right between the shoulders dead center chest ..stoned him .. I was pretty impressed with the shot.lol Love the 22 250. Dutch
 
Well, it seems like it will come down to the best deal I can find locally. So far it is a gently used 243 with a bushnell 3-9x from the hock shop for $300 plus government mandated theft fees (taxes)
 
243 70 grn Nosler ballistic tips, and nothing will walk away from one of these. Home rolled they shoot 2" high or low from 0-250yds I shoot the same load out of 3 different guns
 
I have shot coyotes with both.
The 243win with 100g partitions had minimal pelt damage.
Also gives room for less then ideal shot placement.

The 22-250 sure whoops them. 55g v-max hammer them but in my experience make a mess of things.

Thant being said I believe a 243win with light bullets would probly do the same thing.
 
22-250= flat shooting, pelt damage(lower hits and further back) Loud. Price of ammo. good on yotes and fox.

243= fairly flat shooting, pelt damage(lower hits and further back)less loud. About minimum cal. on wolves. Good on yotes/fox. Price of ammo

For a yote /fox /gun, 22-250 is a good choice.
For a yote /wolf/fox/ deer gun, .243 is a good choice.

When I hunt where there is an overlap of wolve/yotes, I always carry .243 or 6.8 SPC.

Buy one of each..........
 
well I have both the 22-250 (stevens 200, with savage 12 barrel) and 243 (savage 10)

I use the 22-250 for yotes, it weighs over 11 lbs with that heavy barrel on it and shoots little groups.

the 243 I intended to use a a lighter back up for yotes and potentially deer but it seems to not like the light bullets and shoots the 100grn bullets best. I'm working on it. but it won't replace teh tikka 25-06 as my main deer rifle.
 
I ended up picking up a .243 for $299 at the hock shop with scope and sling. Bought a box of Winchester 100 gr loads because that's all I could find. I'll be loading for it eventually, but it's factory for now. I need to get out and sight it in for now.
 
I agree with those that prefer the 22-250 for 'yotes. 243 is a good round but in this application the 22-250 would be more suitable I would hazard to guess. For those who like to experiment with calibres the 22-6mm would be an interesting choice also. For a long range deer/varmint combo set up the 240 Weatherby would be another alternative.
 
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