.270?

[lenny 308]

I was wondering if anyone out there uses a .270 for shooting coyotes.  The reason I ask is that I already have a .270 and if I could get away with using it I would be able to save the cost of a new gun.  I have heard that premium quality big game bullets don't do much damage to hides but not sure if I believe it.  Any help or suggestions would be great.

[Dusty Wheeler]

Use it!  I use a .308 for varmints...

[Siskiyou]

In my younger days a .270 was my woodchuck, jackrabbit, coyote, deer, and bear rifle.  I used the 130 grain Remington Bronze points, and C-L and they created major damage on coyotes and there was never the thought of saving a hide.  I tried WW factory 110 grain hollow-points.  Again it took time for all the hair to settle to the ground. 

Graybeard Sponsor, Mid South Shooter Supply list Remington FMJ 115 Grain bullets for the 6.8/.277.  These maybe good for the hide hunter. 


 

[Kal52]

I know more than a few guys that bring them, primarily on windy days, drifts less im guessing. Up in ND its windy more days than its not. I would use it, I think they said the heavier bullet the better, but dont quote me on that. I used one for many years on deer and I think it would be a fine choice if you didnt want a different gun, your familiar with it and know how it shoots. I say get some different loads together and see what works for ya, really the only way to find out.

good luck

Dave

[~Ace~]

The 90 Grain bullets were recomended to me for the .270 and Yotes... I have some to try, but have not as of yet. To Damn Hot ! 

[FourBee]

I just like the .270 as an all around gun for game and preditors.   It can reach way out an touch'em well enough to suit me.
Never noticed any outstanding  damage on the coyotes I've taken with my .270 Rem 700,with heavy loads.   I've bought some Remington 100 gr. Soft Point  just for coyotes.    Haven't been given the opportunity to pull the trigger on one yet.

[Dee]

I think your 100 grain soft points are going to ruin any chances of making a nice cap out of a coyote hide. They would however make a good deer load.

[FourBee]

Yep, I think you're right.    I want to see what it does though.    At the time I was thinking of less noise and recoil.   

[Dee]

Let me give you a little tip concerning rifle report. I don't know what a coyote thinks it is (the part that goes bang real loud), but I have shot one and called back the other. I have shot and missed and called him back. I have shot and hit, and called another in from the same stand, and I have shot and missed, and called another in from the same stand. And I don't know how many times I have shot and missed, and got him to stop for one more shot. Like I said, I don't know what a coyote thinks a rifle's report is, (thunder, sonic boom, back-firing tractor), I don't know. But your 270 will not disturb them anymore than my 2506, or 223, or some body's 22-250.
Now this information could be just my good luck but, if it is, I have been lucky since I started calling, and I started in about 1965.

[FourBee]

Animals are probably more cautious about noise than being scared by it.    It's humans that get over excited when they hear gunshots or smell smoke.
   My concern about the noise is the growing neighbor population to the south of my ranch.    These people are coming out of the cities, and some are very alarmed the way country people behave, burning brush, the three days of bawling cows seperated at weaning, shooting marauding varmits in the middle of the night, or the noise of target practice.
   So, for their sake, what they don't hear, see, or smell, the better off we all are.  Kind of keeps the peace in the community. 

[Dee]

Let me top that one for ya. This can be a wet or dry climate down here in North Central Texas, so famers plow when they can, to get things done.
Some kids inherited the family farm and sold it off  a piece at a time to Dallas people, in one and two acre tracts, whom want to LIVE IN THE COUNTRY!
Some of'em told a farmer friend of mine he could not plow at night as it made their dogs bark, and the tractors kept them awake. Others said he couldn't plow in the daytime because they worked at night, and the tractors kept them awake.
My attitude is, that if I am hunting legally, to hell with the city folk. But that's just me.

[FourBee]

I've got alot of Raccoon on my place.  My Blueticks ran the creeks and ridges around here freely for years before people began moving in.   We had some mighty fine hunts back then.      A neighbor sold his farm and the new owners hadn't been there notime when they killed my best hound one night.   
That was my first sign that times were changing.   Used to be ~ the nights here were dark under the beautiful starry skies.   Now ~ except for the family ranch and the farms north of me, the whole region is lit up like a Christmas Tree.

[Dee]

Same here on the coon huntin, and it's beginning to get dicy on the hog dogs. Especially when they chase a hog across someone's lawn. Then they call animal control because the hogs completely destroyed their front yard in one night of rooting up grubs.