Hunting & Fishing Whats good 223 ammo for predator hunting

[a1-equipment]

Looking to set up one my 223 ars for predator hunting. Any recommendations for a good factory ammo that works well on predators?
will be out of a 18” bfs barrel 100-200 yards for most shots

 

[Softtail103]

PMC Bronze. Cheap but very consistent. If your AR likes it. My Remington R15 is a .25 MOA with cheap PMC ammo.

 

[sodakhunter]

Some of the Fiocci stuff is ok as well as the ones listed above.

 

[a1-equipment]

Full metal jacket?

 

[sodakhunter]

I use ballistic tips. Our dogs are pretty tough around here and fmjs just seem to slow them down.

 

[Liberator52]

You'll lose dogs with FMJs. Use any good expandable bullet in 50 - 75 gn. range your rifle likes.

 

[Cofercr]

Australian Outback 55gr Sierra Blitz King.

 

[deersniper]

Australian Outback 55gr Sierra Blitz King.

Yes that’s a good one.

the American Eagle tipped Varmint was great also.

Pretty much anything with a polymer tipped 50-60 grain bullet will work great

 

[Ranchhand]

I like hornady black 75 grain hollow point boat tails on coyotes.

 

[Moose]

Some of the Fiocci stuff is ok as well as the ones listed above.

I run the Fiocci wth 50gn vmax and it works out very good.

 

[Chicory01]

Any of the V max stuff is fine for critters. With prices being abnormally high, I wouldn't waste too much on things like TSX for the job.

 

[D̷e̷v̷i̷l̷D̷o̷c̷A̷Z̷]

Anyone who thinks PMC won’t drop a dog is welcome to bring their bigger than dog carcass to the range and let me shoot them.

cheap ball ammo works.

I like 55gn V-Max. Idk if the tips melt like the Amax but I don’t care.

 

[jolofree]

PMC Bronze. Cheap but very consistent. If your AR likes it. My Remington R15 is a .25 MOA with cheap PMC ammo.

WOW .25 MOA from an R15 & cheap PMC ammo Is great. At 100yds, More than 1 ? Pics or it didn't happen

 

[diggler1833]

FMJ "can" work, and it can work well...it just doesn't work as consistently as a bullet designed for killing game.

Ive killed coyotes with the Mk 318 Mod 0, Speer Gold Dot, 69gr SMK, and XM193 in 5.56/.223 out here. The SMK and XM193 usually have to hit the shoulder to be as impressive in dropping a dog as the Mk 318.

When I retired and moved out to the ranch we had a huge coyote problem. I killed 26 in the first year, and a total of 48 over the first two years just on our 700 acres. The numbers are much more acceptable now, but I'm still shooting one a month or so.

100-200 yards any soft point in the 55-64 gr range is going to be good...you just have to find ammo that your gun likes. Varmint bullets are great too...you may not be able to get quite as cute with your angles, but well placed shots offer impressive results.

Haven't ever shot a dog with a .224 diameter TSX, but I've actually had great results with that bullet in 6.5 Grendel and 6.8 SPC. The SST is devastating on shoulder or lengthwise shots, but surprisingly not nearly as effective on traditional hunting shot placement. Ive actually had just as many coyotes run off after a double lung with the 6.8/SST as I have the .223/SMK. I find them later, but they go 100-200 yards.

 

[Defender32]

I shoot 53 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips. They work well here.

 

[WoobieJ]

Fiocchi extrema 50gr varmint grenades work wonders on any predators and even hogs. I find that the coyotes and hogs I shoot with them don’t go very far with baseball to grapefruit sized cavitations inside them. Also of note - all my rifles shoot them sub MOA