22 mag is a pretty good round but it has limits. Yesterday I seen a sounder of hogs coming down a draw and got ahead of them and waited for them to cross the road. I was positioned about 30 yards from where I expected them to cross. Still in the truck and had a 8 3/8ths Model 48 S&W laying across the mirror. First hog crossed where I expected but went across so fast I didn’t get a shot. Three more started across about 20 yards farther down and one stopped just long enough for me to put a Hornady Gold Dot 40 grain in it’s chest and it squealed and took off. Two more came across and the first one stopped where the other was shot and looked down the draw, it received one in the chest also. I came back by about 2 hours later after it warmed up and found the first hog about 30 years from where it was shot and the second one about 80 yards past it, both dead. I’ve taken several hogs and a bunch of Coyotes with this pistol with some out to 100 yards. I’m a big fan of the 22 mag. Both of the hogs weighed about 125 to 150 lbs.
2 of 2 kills @ 50 yards with a .22 magnum pistol is pretty darn good shooting!
Anyway, good info. I don’t recall how much energy delivered the 22 Magnum carbine would have (will have to look up again), and wound volume is limited, but with that scope on it, it might be just the thing for coyotes, as they tend to be at longer range (80-100 yards) and if one runs off and dies a few minutes later, no owner is going to accost me later.
No gun shop near me has .22 Mag ammo in stock - so that works against one of my major “preferences”, however.