Looking for New Light Weight Varmint Rig

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I have been going out varmint hunting a fair bit lately and I find that I leave my Rem 700-P 223 in the truck due to its weight and when I'm snowshoeing in with my pack of goodies I am finding even my Ruger M77 22-250 starts to get very heavy.

So now I am looking for another rig for varmints I want stainless steel, synthetic stock and about a 22" barrel at the most and will most likely stay with the 223 cartridge because I have hundreds of these already loaded...

Any thoughts/suggestions would be great...

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I am looking for an extremely accurate rifle 1-9 twist prefered and one that will be capable of consistantly giving me 1/2" to 3/4" groups @ 100 yards and 3" groups at 300 yards I'm talking when the weather is cooperating and I am doing my part. :cool:
 
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I will probably be ordering a Remington VLSF in .22-250 in a few weeks. 22" stainless medium contour fluted barrel in a B&C stock. Specs says 6 3/4 Lbs. Should be perfect for what you're asking, except for the 1:9 twist, the Rem is 1:14.

P.S. Camp Cook, where do you go varmint hunting? Aren't you in the Mission area.
 
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Close Abbotsford...

I travel a lot prospecting thru out BC & Alberta and I varmint/predator hunt everywhere I go...

For gophers the Princeton to Merrit area was pretty good but they have been mostly shot out now. Yes on private land... :)

Locally for coyotes I go between Princeton, Merrit, Kamloops, Vernon and I am just starting to learn how to call/look for bobcat and mountain lion and have been favoring the lower Coquihalla Hwy and Fraser Canyon areas.

I was in Alberta for about 3 months this year and broke my Marlin 917 SLF 17HMR in on over 700 - 800 gophers... :cool:

50klm west of Mcbride I shot a wolf last Feb and I like coyote hunting in the 100 Mile to Williams Lake area. For wolf I am going to try Pine Pass between Mackenzie and Chetwynd and back to Mcbride and out to Fort St James.

So basically everywhere...
 
build a custom

take a 700, screw on a 1-9 twist barrel, flute it, chambered in 223. Drop it in a fiberglass stock, talley rings and a trim 3-9x40 like a VXII. you'd be under 7.5 lbs scoped easy
 
I have been thinking about both the Model 7 (I think M7's come new in 223) and a short action 700, Rem 700's are my favorite bolt action rifles right now must be I have more of them than anything else.

Great ideas guys please keep them coming.

I have also been looking at a Tikka T3 Lite or adding a 223 barrel to my T/C Contender Carbine which would be cheaper than buying a new rifle but I am concerned with the end accuracy results for the T/C, with a tapered barrel the T/C would be light and short though.
 
Using the mirror on my CRV for a rest I shot a 3 shot group @ 310 yards (with a rangefinder) a little bigger than the size of a softball with my T3 Lite stainless .223 with handloads. I'm really liking this gun.
 
I like the way Bartell thinks, but I'd tweek it a bit. A 1-8" mountain rilfe contour barrel, finished at 22". Bed it into a laminated mountian rifle stock. You'll give up a bit of weight to the fiberglass, but it will be damn durable, and cheaper too. VX-II 3-9 sounds good, w/ a wide du[plex if you can find it. Send it off to Korth for a M1 elevation know, and you're done. Shoot 75 Amax out of it, and you might be very surprised how far you can get the job done.
 
bcsteve said:
I will probably be ordering a Remington VLSF in .22-250 in a few weeks. 22" stainless medium contour fluted barrel in a B&C stock. Specs says 6 3/4 Lbs. Should be perfect for what you're asking, except for the 1:9 twist, the Rem is 1:14.
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Well, I took my own advice and ordered a VLSF in .22-250, thanks Tod.;):sniper:
 
:D you didnt want a BB gun? you're in for a surpise

I thought you wanted a lvsf .177 repeater?

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