Let's see your Varmint rifles !

[AdamT204]

Remington 700 Boone & Crockett 243

Remington 700 BDL 222

Remington 700 VLS 22-250

 

[Smiley882]

6.5 Grendel. It takes care of all sorts of varmints!

 

[shooter65]

22-250

 

[shooter65]

6 creedmoor

 

[zach_destroys]

Here is my favorite .22-.250:

The stock is black walnut that I completely inletted from a shaped, un-inletted, Rem 700 blank to fit the Ruger M77 MKII - 8-10 coats of Minwax Wipe-On poly were applied, each coat sanded with 320 grit. The fore-end was made from 3, 3/4 inch thick epoxy laminated pieces of cherry salvaged from my late parent's bed-room furniture (I have lots of it). The cherry and walnut have complementary colors, with red under tones. The stock needed a moderate amount of shaping using a large cabinet file and finished with my Dewalt orbital sander to tune up edges & get nice flat surfaces. The rifle is about 16 years old & the stock is 14 years old and I just completely detailed the rifle & refinished the stock and glued on the forend tip.

I never did like the Ruger M77 diagonal bedding system so I drilled & tapped a 1/4 28 hole in the middle of the flat behind the funny Ruger M77 recoil lug. A standard Rem 700 1/4 28 Allen head front action screw was shortened. Two Allen head Ruger screws are used. I made this into a single shot and lowered the rifle profile about 3/16 inch. An aluminum Score High follower was J-B epoxy welded in place (it has been in place for 14 years). The gap in front of the aluminum follower was plugged up using Brownell's epoxy, to prevent glop from solvents and whatever from draining into stock.

It can be noted that this rifle is of the push feed type. The entire cartridge end is encircled by the bolt except for the ejector cut. This works well for a push feed/single shot. A Timney trigger was fitted.

The scope is a Leupold 6-18X40 AR Tac. The rifle also uses a 4.5-14X40 30mm VX3i. I don't like huge scopes. The 6-18 Leupold is of the Mil Rad type with mildots and mil adjustments and has been completely satisfactory.

A standard & proven load is the 75 Hornady ELDM with 34.5 grains of RL16. I also intend to work up a StaBall load with the same bullet. Longest hit so far on some hapless rodent was real close to 880 yards. The Hornady 4DOF calculator was very close. The barrel is a 26", 5R, 7.7 twist.

Wifey is also a .22-250 fan but likes 40 Vmax bullet over 4,000 fps but in a different rifle.

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I love what you did with rugers dumb diagonal action screw

 

[Wallie]

Here is my setup for prairie dogs in Montana.

There is a 223AI and a 6XC each for myself, my dad and my brother. I built all of them.
Mine are the Kelbly Atlas/McMillan/Benchmark 1:9 223AI, and the Desert Tech SRS A1 6XC.

This is the shooting bench setup I made, with sun shade.

 

[H82MISS]

Wallie,

Great set up you have, very practical !!!!

 

[7stw]

This one is my ole reliable 6.5 cm.
Favorite fodder is 123ELDM, @2888
Killed 38 last year, and one yesterday. One more to share.

 

[7stw]

This one is a super accurate 25.06 AI, that I got last spring. It's a deer killing machine, using a Hammer 92 grain Hunter, but for varmints, I use Fowler, 85 grain match bullets, or 90 grain Sierra Blitz kings. Usually at 3640 fps each. Some assembly required on impact, at any distance. I don't shoot this one that much, as I don't want to take out this barrel. Buts it's a spectator sport for sure on impact. Zero chance of survival.

 

[Cowboyblaster]

Always courious to check out other member rifle set up's ,So let's see what ya got. Here's some of mine, Ruger #1V 220 swift. , Ruger m77v 220 Swift, Ruger m77v 22-250, Ruger Mk2v 223

1964 remington 700 bdl bull barrel sa in 308win vortex 4x12 tactical with a MDT Oryx chasis holdind it all together

 

[Deleted member 115360]

1964 remington 700 bdl bull barrel sa in 308win vortex 4x12 tactical with a MDT Oryx chasis holdind it all together

My man, those are the tallest rings I've ever seen.


Do you carry your ecaller in that space between your barrel and scope?

 

[Cowboyblaster]

My man, those are the tallest rings I've ever seen.


Do you carry your ecaller in that space between your barrel and scope?

Love it didn't think i would but feels very good and natural for me.

 

[Deleted member 115360]

Love it didn't think i would but feels very good and natural for me.

That's all that matters. I hope you pile em up.

 

[Cowboyblaster]

That's all that matters. I hope you pile em up.

Im thinking it will be even better once i get the 30moa rail under it that i ordered 2 months ago. But even now it's prety hard on these coastal wolves