Walking Varmint/Coyote Rifles: What are you shooting?

Cooper Varminter 223 - 50 grn Blkngs - 25.8 grns benchmark.
Topped with a Zeiss 4.5 x 14 50mm Burris Sig. Z rings Leo bases
 
scott_r said:
I just bought a Stevens 200 in .223 for this upcomming coyote season. Nothing I hate more then babying a $1000 gun all winter. The rest of you guys have some very nice rigs though ;)
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Are you hitting the meth pipe too hard??:runaway:

My rig is about $2000 wiht scope, rings, tax etc...and no way is it goign to get babied.;)

:dancingbanana:
 
Gatehouse said:
My rig is about $2000 wiht scope, rings, tax etc...and no way is it goign to get babied.;)
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Mine too. I've never understood anyone who puts a ton of money into a nice gun and then buys something else because they are afraid to get the nice gun scratched up.

With rare exceptions, guns are made to be used. They can be reblued, refinished, reststocked and restored. None of my guns are prissy little safe queens meant to be admired and unfired while lesser items go hunting.

One day heirs may despair the condition of my firearms but I won't care at that point and they will damn sure know that I used them every chance I got.
 
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Dido to that......I probably got about 2 Bills into my Titanium and I bought it with the Sole intention it would take a Beating :)

I sold Most of the Safe Queens:redface:
 
scott_r said:
I just bought a Stevens 200 in .223 for this upcomming coyote season. Nothing I hate more then babying a $1000 gun all winter. The rest of you guys have some very nice rigs though ;)
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My scopes are not expensive for the fact that you have to baby them!!:cool:
Neither is the rifle, all my rigs get hunted hard.
Cat
 
Gatehouse said:
Are you hitting the meth pipe too hard??:runaway:

My rig is about $2000 wiht scope, rings, tax etc...and no way is it goign to get babied.;)

:dancingbanana:
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Well I guess thats your opinion and I respect that but If I had over $2000 invested in a gun Id be worried about scratrches and dings, last thing I need to worry about while hunting coyotes is seeing my expensive rifle scratched from barbwire or dinged on the jack in the back seat.:)
I don't wear a tuxedo to feed the pigs, I save it for special occasions :)

Cheers!!
 
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scott_r said:
Well I guess thats your opinion and I respect that but If I had over $2000 invested in a gun Id be worried about scratrches and dings, last thing I need to worry about while hunting coyotes is seeing my expensive rifle scratched from barbwire or dinged on the jack in the back seat.:)
I don't wear a tuxedo to feed the pigs, I save it for special occasions :)

Cheers!!
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That is the whole point in buying quality gear.

You USE it.

I dont wear a tuxedo to feed the pigs either, but that is because a tuxedo is a very poor choice of clothing for farming,

A $2000 rifle/scope combop is not apoor choice for huntng.:)
 
Model 700s in 204/222/223/243/22-250(2)/308 all VS or Police all have been "walked" all over and the weight doesn't bug me because they all shoot awesome...
the 204 is newest and for the question above i am 2 for 2 on coyotes with the 32 grain VMAX factory load, one broadside in the chest at 172 yards fell right there, one down the throat at 125 yards ran straight at me for about 10-15 yards and then realized it was dead, no exit in either case, the two big jackrabbits that have been dispatched with the 204 on the other hand kind of blew up (145 and 10 yards respectively)

oh, and a black special when i know i am going into a target rich environment....
 
204 is a great round, with the right head it could be on it's way to being the definiative coyote fur taking round. I use the 35 Bergers, very happy to date.
 
I've been trying

some loads for my Dad's Midland 243 Win. I loaded up some 65gr Hornady V-Max bullets today over 41.5-43 grs of RL15. Best groupings were with 41.5 and 42grs. Higher than that the groups started to open up. Temp outside was -5C. Chronographed @ 3554 fps.:eek: :D I think that will be some pretty serious smackdown on them yotes.;) :D

Cannot wait to give it a shot. Will possibly use the 6BR but it weighs 12.5 lbs.:( Not really a walking varminter.
 
I guess my walking around varmint rig is a M-7 with Lilja 22" stainless pipe chambered for .243. The rig is topped off with a Leupold 4-12X40, and sits in the second ugliest B&C stock anyone has ever seen. I shoot 55gr Ballistic Tips through it more than anything else, but it shoots well with bullets up to 100 grs. One of these years I'll have to send it out for some work - the extractor doesn't always extract, and I feel the need for another McMillan stock.

My other varmint rifle took care of a couple of squirrels out at the cabin last summer with 270 gr Hornady's . . . that worked pretty good too.
 
i managed to get a winchester model 70 classic featherweight in 22-250 beautiful rifle hope theay make them again i also have a ruger mk 77 17hmr i have taken coyotes with it
 
Gatehouse said:
That is the whole point in buying quality gear.

You USE it.

I dont wear a tuxedo to feed the pigs either, but that is because a tuxedo is a very poor choice of clothing for farming,

A $2000 rifle/scope combop is not apoor choice for huntng.:)
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This is getting intop a pi$$ing match it seems!
The fact that we can spend the kind of money we want to for quality gear in no way means that we would turn up our noses at those who prefer to hunt with less expensive stuff.

I talked to a bighorn guide years ago and commented on his Weatherby ( an older European made job) .
He said it travelled in more saddle scabbardsa than it ever sat in his gun cabinet, and looked like crap!
But when he put the crosshairs on an animal. it went down , period.
THAT is why he paid the extra money for it.

I hun t hard with my rigs, be they varmint rifles or bird guns, but an honest
scratch or ding is normal wear and tear to me.
Cat
 
Yote gun

My old favorite is my Win 1892 25.20

I have downed a bunch with my (now sold) Savage 93 .22 mag. I guess it really helps having cow / calves in that respect. My longest shots on Yotes have been about 100 yards.

The smaller calibre is also nice because it doesn't scare the crap out of the cattle.:D

Arch:)
 
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