Walking Varmint/Coyote Rifles: What are you shooting?

gitrdun said:
Savage 12FVSS in 22-250 with NcStar 6-24x50. I'm going to mount my Swarovski 3 x 9. The Habicht is a bit beat up, it came off my scabbard rifle, attesting to the fact that I use it. But then again, I cant' blame catnthehat for not wanting to beat up his more expensive rig either, to each his/her own. You'll see this pic in another thread, I want to clean up the scope but don't want to hijack this thread. Correction: I meant scott_r, not catnthehat.
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People get names and stuff mixed up all the time, and yup, so did I until I got to the end of your post, girdun!
Good thing you use a high quality scope, 'cause a lesser one may not have survived travelling in a horse scabbard!
 
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Since we've just about covered the "walking varmint rifle" angle, how about glass? What are you guys using? Upper/Lower limit of magnification? Upper limit on weight, eye relief? i.e., 3-9X max, 3.5-10X, etc...
 
X-man said:
Since we've just about covered the "walking varmint rifle" angle, how about glass? What are you guys using? Upper/Lower limit of magnification? Upper limit on weight, eye relief? i.e., 3-9X max, 3.5-10X, etc...
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Ideally I think at least a 10X fixed, or a variable like 2-10 or 5-15 would be about right... a 'yote is a lot smaller than a deer.
 
X-man said:
Since we've just about covered the "walking varmint rifle" angle, how about glass? What are you guys using? Upper/Lower limit of magnification? Upper limit on weight, eye relief? i.e., 3-9X max, 3.5-10X, etc...
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I have a Leupold VariX-III 2.5-8 on my Sako. I've been considering replacing it with a more poweful scope either a VX2 4-12 or a Bushnell 4200 4-16.
 
We tend to hunt at first light and right up to the end of legal light, so we use low powered variables, 2.5-10X or 3-9X on our rifles.

Power is cranked right ddoowwn in the morning, otherwise you can't pick out a coyote on the bait or sneaking in
( if that is the case, sometimes they charge in!)
Power is turned up in thhe afternoon.
At one time I hunted with a 6-24X, but even down to 6X it was tough sometimes.
On my long range rigs however, I use some fairly high powered scopes!:D
Theswe are used in the middle of the dday however, where the amount of light is not a problem.
Cat
 
Remington 25-06 CDL with a Leupold VXII 6-18x40AO LRR.

My only "babying" is not to take a DT10 into the Duck Blind...
besides, it's made for clay targets, not waterfowl.

Everything else gets rode hard, has been wet, but is put away dry !
 
Remington 25-06 CDL with a Leupold VXII 6-18 x40 AO-LRR.

My only "babying" is not to take a DT10 into the Duck Blind...
besides, it's made for clay targets, not waterfowl.


Everything else gets rode hard, has been wet at one time or another, but is cleaned and put away DRY !
 
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