A mate of mine just got a Coyote in 223 WSSM. He did not bother shooting it with the factory barrel but had a match grade of Ren Varmint contour put on as well as a Jewell trigger. I have just bedded the rifle for him.

The quality of the rifle is poor. The barrel is crooked enough in the receiver than it can be easily seen with the ey so we bedded the scope at an angle in the rings so the rifle could be bore sighted.

Also interesting is that the barrel thread has being increased from the M70 standard of 1". A Canadian gunsmith on AR, Bill Leeper, mentioned sometime ago about the small barrel shank and the WSMs and some trouble he was seeing.

The rifle feeds fine, no trouble with the short fat little cases. They are about the case capacity as a 243, just a tad bigger.

Obviouly with full loads barrel life will ot be long becaus you basically have a 22/243 or 22/6mm Rem.

Mike