what's your favorite varmint rifle?

How do you spell this..........

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I have only one varminter, a .223 Rem. Not bad, but I think 22-250 Rem or 220 Swift would be better for those long shots.
 
consider a 260 as well. Same as a 243, just 1/2 mm bigger. Get some VERY efficient bullets in this cal. Load it with bigger projectiles, and it becomes a decent big game rifle, to boot.


Although, for me in terms of sheer number of rounds expended, it has to be the 22lr. I'm quite fond of the 22 hornet/k-hornet. I have a .204 and a 22-250 too, but I don't find them as much fun overall to shoot.

A .17 HMR is tons of fun to shoot, but for the price of the non-reloadable ammo, I can keep my Hornet well fed with hand-loads.
 
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Push a Sierra 107gr MK out the muzzle at 3000 fps, and the bullet is still going almost 1200 fps at 1600 yds.

Switch to the Berger 95 gr VLD which flys out the muzzle at just under 3300 fps and the bullet will be doing 1000 fps at 1900 yds.
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Gotta call BS on this.

If you're looking for a truly LR varmint gun, get something in 6.5 or 7 mm. A 6.5 will do what the 6 mm will do and better, and the 7 mm is a 6.5 on steroids.

Terry Perkins
 
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Originally Posted by RePete
If you are trying to spell the number 40, it IS
FORTY and not fourty.
RePete.


mdbuckle said:
lol, too funny!:D
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And furthermore, (while we are on the subject),

the following are NOT words either, so stop using them! .....

irregardless
preventative
orientated

(the proper words are: regardless, preventive, and oriented!)

and personally, I highly suspect that commentator is a bastardized word too!


And now, back to the regularly scheduled program..........
 
What?? Since when is preventative not a word?? And orientated?? I am absolutely POSITIVE that is a word...well, same as preventative, as in preventative measures. Irregardless, that's correct, it is is simply regardless. Don't confuse us here people. Some of us may be somewhat literarily challenged (and don't tell me THAT is not a word), but don't be throwing them curve balls now!! ;)
 
bladerogers said:
What?? Since when is preventative not a word?? And orientated?? I am absolutely POSITIVE that is a word...well, same as preventative, as in preventative measures. Irregardless, that's correct, it is is simply regardless. Don't confuse us here people. Some of us may be somewhat literarily challenged (and don't tell me THAT is not a word), but don't be throwing them curve balls now!! ;)
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As time goes by, and more and more people mis-use words, they end up in the dictionary anyhow, even though they are wrong to begin with.

to repeat:
irregardless is a double negative.
prevent becomes preventive
orient becomes oriented

...because...you don't preventate something, or, orientate yourself, do you? NO! You prevent something from happening, or you orient yourself to your surroundings.
:)

end of hijack. start a new thread if you must! :p
 
I've been looking at a .22-250 myself (one of those cool NEF Ultra Varmints, with the skeleton stock and fluted barrel w/sliding bipod insert!) , but I just can't commit. It's a good round and all, tons of performance for the money, but a buddy of mine up north has a .243 that kills pretty much anything he points it at, long or short range. Deer, rabbits, 'coons, whatever. I can't decide! I'm so torn!
 
Regarding a varmint rifle - one is never enough. If you can't choose between the 243 & 22-250, get both :D

bladerogers said:
What?? Since when is preventative not a word?? And orientated?? I am absolutely POSITIVE that is a word...well, same as preventative, as in preventative measures. Irregardless, that's correct, it is is simply regardless. Don't confuse us here people. Some of us may be somewhat literarily challenged (and don't tell me THAT is not a word), but don't be throwing them curve balls now!! ;)
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Inventing words will embiggen your vocabulary.

Shakespeare did it, and English majors don't have a problem with him now, ya know.
 
prosper said:
Inventing words will embiggen your vocabulary.

Shakespeare did it, and English majors don't have a problem with him now, ya know.
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A lot of famous authors do it, too. A.A. Attansio (sci-fi author) does it all the time. So does Stephen King. The english language is so messed up anyways, who cares if people bastardize words or make new ones as long as other people can understand what you mean?

Isn't "embiggen" one of those Simpsons words? I can't find the link but I read an article recently about how the Simpsons have created several new words that are now acknowledged as "real words" in the newest Webster's English Dictionary :D
 
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Yep. 'embiggen' comes from the simpsons. I don't remember exactly which episode though

poweredbybeer said:
A lot of famous authors do it, too. A.A. Attansio (sci-fi author) does it all the time. So does Stephen King. The english language is so messed up anyways, who cares if people bastardize words or make new ones as long as other people can understand what you mean?

Isn't "embiggen" one of those Simpsons words? I can't find the link but I read an article recently about how the Simpsons have created several new words that are now acknowledged as "real words" in the newest Webster's English Dictionary :D
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I have a wildcat 6mm-284 and have decided that my lighter varmint rifle is going to be a 223.

Now if I can just decide on which rifle to buy I'll have the best varmint cartridges available.

Years ago I had a 22-250 that was awesome on everything including Sitka Blacktail deer in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
 
Camp Cook said:
Years ago I had a 22-250 that was awesome on everything including Sitka Blacktail deer in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
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Don't tempt me, I just paid off my credit card a couple weeks ago! Good to know, though. Were you making head/neck shots or vitals? And from what distances?

I found that a .30-06 was too much up there, the deer are so small and the distances I was shooting were never more than 150 yards. Which led me down the varmint-rifle path :D So yeah, do tell!
 
Average shots where around 100 yards but I have shot them out to 200 yards due to the 22-250 gving 1 1/2" groups at that didstance.

All my shots where frontal neck shots resulting in a 1/4" hole in and a 2" exit hole. The only thing holding the head on after the shot was the hide.

I was using Sierra 55gr SBT bullets @ 3660fps.
 
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