I have an 80+ year old parts driver in our parts department, he has a son that's a National skeet shooting champion, when I say he and his son has guns.......both of their homes are gun safes!
Those two have got on a Savage Bolt gun buying rampage lately, in .17 HMR. He says when they go on sale from Savage they buy two or three of them at a time.
He says with a mediocre scope these rifles and that .17 round are absolute tack drivers! Not sure how effective it would be for Coyote but one of my guys here at work has a buddy who took a Deer with a .17 this year!
.17 HMR is a fantastic round and a bolt action .17 is definitely on my want list at some point. Pretty sure it's illegal to shoot a deer with a .17 in all but maybe a couple states.