Best gun and round for a coyote?

I would pick the nagant with soft nose. some might say it's over kill but your no eatin it [hopefully] plus I don't thin anyone even care about coyotes so sit back and let that sweet 7.62 tear through that coyot

A .223 is a varmint caliber, but you also have to take into account the size of the coyotes where you live. And, I would not use a .223 on the coyotes down here, I'd use a .243 or even a .308.

Also, what shots do you plan on taking? Broadside, quartering away, etc? What terrain? Different calibers fair better in different conditions.

.223 is best and a softpoint or hollowpoint would be better......and safe some money.......cause a 7mm-08 is a little expensive for plinking and varmints and a SKS,Mosin does not have the accuracy and range. A good .223 rifle with scope is your perfect coyote gun hands down.

what do you want from the coyote? are you keeping the skin or just throwing it away and killing for pest control?

because if pest control specifically, all of them will do with expanding bullets out to 150 yards and if excluding the sks, the rest will be good out to 300 yards, just be sure to use expanding bullets, since FMJ don't kill well and are usually illegal to hunt with except the smallest pests like prairie dogs.

if trying to keep the skins, use the .223 and get proper varmint rounds like the varmint grenade from barnes, cause as said above, FMJ is illegal for coyotes anywhere and you want to make a clean kill without destroying too much fur.

I regularly shoot coyotes with a bolt-action 308 with iron sights and catch a lot of abuse for it from varmint hunters who are married to the super fast mid-2x calibers and their scopes worth more than my first car.

Yeah, it makes a holy mess but I don't touch nasty coyote hides anyway, so who cares? I hunt them in the high desert with hills and a blind on my side, so 100 yards is a long shot as we can see them coming to the call from a ways off and just wait.

Any one of these is good in my opinion, bring them all!!

i like a Mosin with 203 grain Soft Point or 180 Grain FMJ remmeber to headshot them with FMJs

I would say a .223 and no bigger than a .243. Both of those have plenty of power to kill a coyote. My little cousin killed his first deer with a .223.

depends on if you are going to do anything with the hides or if your just getting rid of a problem personally i would use the mosin nagant but that is just me

i would use the 223 with light grain ammo

* 223 * because the other calibers you mentioned are Big Game Calibers not Varmint calibers.*