I can see the point of there being more efficient ways of killing a fox or coyote and it will be no more dead if the bullet is travelling 300 ft/sec faster BUT ...... Where does that end as why bother doing the Ackley as that will be no more dead than if you used a 22-250 . The only reason you ever need for doing these wildcats is that you want to !
One flaw with that logic: You need to hit them first!
1) I live in South Dakota, and our dogs are TOUGH when they've got their winter coat on. Speed kills. Ask lazeroni!
2) My typical shots on a set are from 50yds to 400yds. Most are in that 100-150yd range.
3 ...and most important) I call in doubles quite a lot, and when I drop dog #1, the second coyote lights a rocket. Running coyotes are easier to hit with a faster bullet. Period.
4 ...and also very important) I hunt the farmland in eastern SD, as well as the rolling rough cuts in western SD. When I go west, it gets really hard to judge distance. The flatter trajectory I have, the more hits I achieve. I noticed this when I went from a .223 to a 22-250. I killed more coyotes because
I hit more coyotes, and it didn't seem to matter where I hit them with the 22-250, I recovered them. Bang-flop, even on bad hits on running dogs. With a .223, I was lethal on dogs out to about 250-300yds. With my 22-250, I stretched that to 350-400yds. Didn't much matter what activity they were engaged in at the time the shot broke either.
Well my thought is, more speed Scotty!!!!! I don't view my barrels as houses, that I want to keep until I die. I view my barrels as tires on my truck. So I'm not afraid of what the speed will do to my kit. I WANT what the speed will do to my quarry.
