300 is pretty similar but harder to find expanding subsonic bullets.Ģ2 hornet (and 218 bee) would be ideal. cheap to make a decent bolt gun in either caliber. ok, the 9mm would be fine but 100 yards with a 9mm might be stretching it?ģ57 and 44 mag in the ranges you are considering (sub 100 yards) would be ideal IMHO. 45 might be close but the platform isn't the easiest to get in a rifle that you can suppress (sure, go ahead and buy a KRISS for coyotes). If you don't mind the sonic crack you can shoot 125gr higher velocity stuff. Seriously the 300 is great if your main priority was sound (quiet). 300gr cast lead HP or heavier XTP bullets loaded subsonic (240 and 300gr). Ruger 77/44 threaded with an Octane suppressor. Plenty of options out there just depends upon what else you want to do with the rifle. Personally, I think a 300blk AR with a good suppressor firing rounds engineered to expand at subsonic speeds is the perfect tool for this job. In your situation that could mean a coyote running AT YOU if it hasn't detected your presence and gets spooked by the bullet passing by. If you fired at me and missed to my right, I'd hear a sonic crack coming from my right just after the bullet passes. It's almost irrelevant at the ranges we're talking here because even the best suppressor will still have enough of a signature to spook coyotes when shooting full power rifle rounds.Įven if you shot at me and missed though, because of the nature of sound waves, I would hear the crack from the direction you missed, not from the direction you fired. This effect is more apparent and relevant at distances past 100yards. However there will be a surprisingly loud thud as the bullet enters the target. So, if you're shooting suppressed and HIT your target it will never hear the crack. Remember the bullet is traveling faster than the speed of sound and the crack is traveling at the speed of sound. The crack trails the round in basically a cone shape so you can't hear the crack until the bullet passes.
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