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Seems as though some here don't own any live stock or have driven up on the remains of a chicken massacre the next day and had to kill sixty of them that weren't dead yet. And still not get to eat any of them.
One hundred and ten dead just to take and eat two. That doesn't sound like a balanced nature thing to me.

Acme hasn't done enough to thin coyote numbers. My kids need to eat too.

Upon relating your ideas to me, @748, I have given up on my plan of a rimfire upper set up for the Aguila SuperSubSonics.

This seems a much preferable option. Mostly the ammunition customization, as putting in more or less powder is easier than tuning springs and conversion adapters and finding portless barrels in the wanted twist.

I know very little about the suppressor side of it. I suppose a rimfire can would burst. Would one that works for Two Twenty Three work the same?

Good luck with the hunt.

"An auto loader that shoots Aguila subs sounds tricky."
But oh... if you could get it to work, wouldn't that be dandy?

I admit at first a sub-sonic 5.7 sounds like a contradiction, but since you are already set up for 5.7 it sounds like good sense. What is your max practical range with it?

That Kel Tec .22 mag pistol with something like a 30 round capacity sounds better for your intended purpose, to me, but the FN would definitely be more glamorous.

Demi-human said:

Seems as though some here don't own any live stock or have driven up on the remains of a chicken massacre the next day and had to kill sixty of them that weren't dead yet. And still not get to eat any of them.
One hundred and ten dead just to take and eat two. That doesn't sound like a balanced nature thing to me.

Acme hasn't done enough to thin coyote numbers. My kids need to eat too.

Good luck with the hunt.

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Agreed, but I try my best for a quick death.

The silencerco Spectre is rated for 5.7

Me, too.

I am a fan of the Fifty Grain Throat Punch.
(Or how ever many grains is in a twelve gauge #4...)

But to say a sub-sonic 5.7 is inhumane, is a stretch. Especially if he is moving up from a rimfire pistol.

I still think it would be cool to have boxes of dynamite left about, but I can’t trust the coyotes to blow themselves up. (And my kiddos not to.) Perhaps relocated Roadrunners could help...

Is a 55 grain vmax designed to expand at those velocities?

Hornady states 1600fps is the lower limit for explosive expansion.

Whether that means it will not open at all at sub speed is going to need testing. It could mean they just don’t disintegrate completely, which is what I look for in a varmint bullet.
I have a feeling they will work even if they act as a FMJ. I haven’t had very many hollow pointed rimfire bullets act as hollow-points and open up anyway.

Demi-human said:

Hornady states 1600fps is the lower limit for explosive expansion.

Whether that means it will not open at all at sub speed is going to need testing. It could mean they just don’t disintegrate completely, which is what I look for in a varmint bullet.
I have a feeling they will work even if they act as a FMJ. I haven’t had very many hollow pointed rimfire bullets act as hollow-points and open up anyway.

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Nearly every time I look at a .22 hollowpoint I wonder "Is this really going to work?"

What are your current 5.7x28 loads. Do you feel you have mastered standard velocity 40gr loads pretty well? I always heard 5.7x28 was finikey to reload... my boss could never get his reloads to feed as reliably as factory loads even though he took great care to not remove the outer coating on the brass.

If you have basic 5.7x28 loads down you probably know more about loading 5.7x28 than most all on this forum. Good luck with your project!!