17hmr and 22lr for gophers. Really prefer the hmr though. Got a stockpile of ammo for it and it's basically point and shoot for gophers. My Ruger 22 is only good under 50 yards. Or it starts spraying everywhere.
And for yotes I sometimes used my 270 cause my 223 just didn't cut it for those long shots out to 500+.
Still use my 270, basically because my Tikka shoots amazingly well with cheap ammo. And you can really reach out there.
But I bought a 22-250 Ruger predator and I'm in love. Only had it out twice but that speed and the accuracy you get out of those things. Took a yote at 400 np, and a porcupine at 470. No wind. That's the only thing that worries me. It gets windy on the prairies.
I even take my savage 308 LE out sometimes. Obviously not looking for pelts. My uncle ranches out in SE Alberta and him and his neighbors want us out whenever we can. Things are everywhere.
Plus he has an old abandoned house that sits perfectly about 600 yards off the road with a shallow coulee running straight back behind the house to a big coulee. Set up the caller or dump a baitsycle off 400 yards down there and you can drive in quietly get to the second floor and we have a shooting table set up looking straight down that shallow coulee. And even on the coldest days with a lil propane heater you can have a blast. Yotes haven't seemed to have caught on yet. But we try not to use the place too much. Wouldn't want to ruin a set up like that.
And for yotes I sometimes used my 270 cause my 223 just didn't cut it for those long shots out to 500+.
Still use my 270, basically because my Tikka shoots amazingly well with cheap ammo. And you can really reach out there.
But I bought a 22-250 Ruger predator and I'm in love. Only had it out twice but that speed and the accuracy you get out of those things. Took a yote at 400 np, and a porcupine at 470. No wind. That's the only thing that worries me. It gets windy on the prairies.
I even take my savage 308 LE out sometimes. Obviously not looking for pelts. My uncle ranches out in SE Alberta and him and his neighbors want us out whenever we can. Things are everywhere.
Plus he has an old abandoned house that sits perfectly about 600 yards off the road with a shallow coulee running straight back behind the house to a big coulee. Set up the caller or dump a baitsycle off 400 yards down there and you can drive in quietly get to the second floor and we have a shooting table set up looking straight down that shallow coulee. And even on the coldest days with a lil propane heater you can have a blast. Yotes haven't seemed to have caught on yet. But we try not to use the place too much. Wouldn't want to ruin a set up like that.
