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Your gap is .24 or .25 cal. My preference would be .25 cal. Depending on the action, .257 WBY loaded with 145 Black Hole bullets will significantly extend that short range for elk.
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'Yoties 3-400 yards; maybe more depending on the gun & myself. Deer keep it under 300. Elk only if I get the chance under 200 yards as when I hunt them I'll have something bigger in my hand.
M1A1ABRAMS
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243 but ,love my 25-06
I'd do a 243 win or 6mm rem, but build it on a long action so you can seat bullets out further. You're right on the edge of point blank range with the lighter bullets going fast for coyotes. Any further than 300 you'll want a heavier bullet anyways. Lots a great options for deer bullets and they usually work good on coyotes also. If you want the rare chance at elk, I'd load up one of the many copper bullets these days and not look back. If you want just one load, then copper bullets would be my choice, but that gets expensive shooting at coyotes at time or leave elk off the list and that gives you a lot of cheaper options.'Yoties 3-400 yards; maybe more depending on the gun & myself. Deer keep it under 300. Elk only if I get the chance under 200 yards as when I hunt them I'll have something bigger in my hand.
Shot a lot of deer with 100gr Hornady Interlocks when I was a kid. The ranges your talking that's a good cheap bullet that'll work. Shot a few with the original Barnes X bullet and it did a good job also.
Leaf Litter
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6 creed seems like the best ticket in town for what you need. Plenty of range and works for everything you listed. Brass, projectiles and factory ammo are all plentiful and inexpensive.
You state you have an 06, and that handles everything you described and more. I like the .308 and recommend it but it's interchangeable with the 06 in what you described. Are you going to choose to hunt with the smallest caliber you own when you have both deer and elk tags in your pocket?'Yoties 3-400 yards; maybe more depending on the gun & myself. Deer keep it under 300. Elk only if I get the chance under 200 yards as when I hunt them I'll have something bigger in my hand.
I like 6mm/.243 caliber rifles I have five rifles in four different chambers. I've killed deer, pronghorn and varmints with all of them. They all stay home when I have an elk tag. I just like the larger caliber holes when it comes to game larger than deer.
Sure a 6mm cartridge will dump an elk. However, it'll never be in my top 10 list. However, you listed three already that would.
The .30-30 would make honorable mention for me. I happen to own a Rem 788 bolt action and it likes the Hornady 160gr FTX rounds. It's fully elk capable, but I don't think my Win 94 would make the cut.
Tadd
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I'm a pretty big 6 CM fan, or a fast twist 243 win, or 6 mm Rem. It looks like your gap is between a 55-70 grain projectile in 22-250 and a 130 grain 270 Win. I like the 100-110 grain 6 mm projectiles to fill that. JMHO.
victor3ranger
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243 for the win 
