Is this overkill.........

[303carbine]

Shooting varmint rabbits with a 300 Winchester mag, 190 grain BTSP Hornady's at 2950 fps?
Most shots were taken prone off a bi-pod between 75 to 100 yards.

 

[cdnredneck_t3]

No. If you like shooting your 300 you like shooting it. Who is anybody to judge.

 

[303carbine]

No. If you like shooting your 300 you like shooting it. Who is anybody to judge.

I'm probably not the only one who uses a larger than needed gun for the job...

 

[cdnredneck_t3]

I am guilty of it myself. My grandfather came with me to the range the otherday when i was grouping some loads for my new 300 WM. He said he has not put that many shot down the pipe of his 30-06 in 20 years. My reply was i like shooting. I am not going to leave a 3800 dollar rig in the safe to shoot 5 times a year. Be it at gophers, rabits, coyotes, deer, moose, elk, paper, water jugs, steel gongs, or paint cans shoot it if you got it.

 

[Levi Garrett]

A bit noisy for me, would prefer to snipe with a 22 cal airgun on those

 

[303carbine]

A bit noisy for me, would prefer to snipe with a 22 cal airgun on those

I was wearing ear plugs and glasses so the blast was minimal. It sure throws a lot of dust around though!!

 

[proonur]

Those pesky wabbits had it comin' if ya ask me.

 

[Accurate]

If you can take it from a 300wm all day go for it. I plink with a 300wsm when I can afford it.

 

[Dogleg]

The only thing that seems like overkill is using a bipod at 90 yards. Offhand or sitting would be more like it.

 

[444shooter]

There are people that use a .460 on gophers. So nothing is overkill

 

[firemachine69]

If you can afford it, go for it!

 

[Gatehouse]

I don't think it's overkill, but having to use a bipod to shoot rabbit sized targets at 100 yards is pretty ghey...

 

[chappy]

i would say your under gunned. switch to a 375 or 416. sounds like good hunting practice to me. you can never have to much gun only not enough. what if one of those rabbits charged. hope you have back up.

 

[RobSmith]

Not much meat gonna be left on them wabbits unless you take head shots only ...

I hate the idea of wasting perfectly good meat, but that's just me.

 

[cyclone]

.338 Win Mag is is the minimum acceptable, right?

 

[Onagoth]

varmint rabbits...no prob, not sure what your bag limits/seasons are though. If you gonna eat them, it seems like it would be too much gun.

 

[t-star]

the word auto-skin comes to mind

 

[Pathfinder]

this thread is useless without pics

 

[oopswasthatyourdog?]

Not much meat gonna be left on them wabbits unless you take head shots only ...

I hate the idea of wasting perfectly good meat, but that's just me.

I was thinking the same thing. I have a thing about saving good meat. Groundhogs ( I am toying with the idea of eating one ) Gophers, Crows....blast away with all you want but to waste good rabbit....kinda wasting IMHO

 

[bunny]

Now I don't feel bad for using my .458WM with 500 grain FMJ's