What rifles you guys running for varmint hunting?

[unclecroc]

Cooper 54 montana varminter 22-250,Remington 783 varmint 223 rem, Browning A bolt micro hunter 22 hornet. Are my three main varmint rigs right now.

 

[Teri Anne]

I don't do a lot of varmint hunting these days, but did do some woodchuck eradication for a farmer friend last summer using a Tikka T1x .22 LR using Winchester 40 gr hollow points out to a little over 100 yards. The woodchucks had invaded the area around the farmhouse and barnyard. This picture was snapped just before this one met it's maker.

 

[Coyote Shadow Tracker]

Cooper 54 montana varminter 22-250,Remington 783 varmint 223 rem, Browning A bolt micro hunter 22 hornet. Are my three main varmint rigs right now.
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I saw the first picture before reading the post and said COOPER!
Beautiful rifles

 

[RobertLehman]

Main rifle is a Rem 700 in .308 shooting 110gr sierra hp.
Back up is a H&R handi in .243 shooting Hornady 87gr v max.

 

[swiper]

700 Remington .223 my go to rifle. backup .222 or 22-250 also in 700 Remington

 

[COBrad]

Cooper 54 montana varminter 22-250,Remington 783 varmint 223 rem, Browning A bolt micro hunter 22 hornet. Are my three main varmint rigs right now.
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Love those Cooper rifles. Here's my Custom Classic with an 1127 yard prairie dog. This barrel is an 8 twist shooting 75 grain ELDM's at just over 3100 fps.

 

[Coyote Shadow Tracker]

Cooper 54 montana varminter 22-250,Remington 783 varmint 223 rem, Browning A bolt micro hunter 22 hornet. Are my three main varmint rigs right now.
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unclecroc posted the Rem 783 on a wood pile and my response

How Much Wood - Could a Wood Chuck - Chuck, if a Wood Chuck-Chuck Wood???

 

[WildRose]

Love those Cooper rifles. Here's my Custom Classic with an 1127 yard prairie dog. This barrel is an 8 twist shooting 75 grain ELDM's at just over 3100 fps. View attachment 350398

That's a whopper of a shot on such a small target. Congrats.

 

[unclecroc]

unclecroc posted the Rem 783 on a wood pile and my response

How Much Wood - Could a Wood Chuck - Chuck, if a Wood Chuck-Chuck Wood???

You can never have too much wood!

 

[unclecroc]

Love those Cooper rifles. Here's my Custom Classic with an 1127 yard prairie dog. This barrel is an 8 twist shooting 75 grain ELDM's at just over 3100 fps. View attachment 350398

Nice shooting, holy cow that's a heck of a shot. What cartridge is that fine piece chambered in?

 

[Wyoming Drifter]

Very fortunate to live in Prairie Dog country. Thru the years Ive mostly shot .222s & .223s. For the past 7 or 8 yrs now Ive been experimenting with the .222 case. Ive learned how to easily cut the neck down 85 thous and neck them down to 20 cal. I had a reamer & go gauge made. Shoot the 35 gr Berger Varmints. 3750 & up fps w/ extreme accuracy. I try and find well used Howa mini's, Rem 700's, CZ 527's, Sako 75's ect in a .223 bolt faces Then have my gun smith tune the actions and rebarrel with either Shilen, Hart or Lilja's. Several of these floating around the country now. What a fun little cartridge.

Anyway,,, anything that goes bang will work lol

 

[COBrad]

Nice shooting, holy cow that's a heck of a shot. What cartridge is that fine piece chambered in?

22-250. This barrel is almost toast and will rebarrel to 22 Creedmore. 1K 88 ELDM's under the bench.

 

[Wl652]

Same as everyone else. I thought until I read all of the above
Lyman Great Plains with .490 round balls and 50 grs. of FF ignited by a sharp rock hitting cold steel.
I guess I'm a little behind the times.

 

[CoSniper66]

Savage model 12 in 22-250, Savage model 12 in 223, Bushmaster varmint in 223, Marlin 17hmr for close up work around houses.