Thread: Best alround varmint cartridge

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Rum ? Shot anything with them goin that fast and did the petals break off?

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Not a rum an still could go more. Just paper done it for a laugh as had a few sitting there.

Barnes say even if they are stoked to uber speeds and the petals come off they will retain 85% weight.Currently running some 53grainers in a walk about 223.An awesome pill.

hey you forgot the .17,s

You cant beat the .223 for an all rounder, cheap to run and is good for rabbits, hares, magpies, goats and maybe even fallow.

308!!

If anyone is still reading this thread....I am curious as to why 22PPC has lost favour. It is cheap to reload, has a fantastic range of powder and projectiles, the barrels last well and as far as I am aware a 22PPC still holds a 600 metre international record...what more can you want from a Varmint gun...yet sadly there are not many around. I brought a Remington 700 in .204 Ruger and after 500x rounds of various loads I got rid of it...reason? I couldn't better 0.8" group....but my Omark rebarreled into 22PPC can sit on 0.5" on a bad day and 0.3 on the rest. With a Weaver T36 it is devastating on rabbits as far away as I can see them. Is anyone else shooting 22PPC??

It is certainly a caliber that have always been interested in.

222 is a great wee shell, 223 is very good too. and for a bit more powder 22-250 is supurb. I shoot all three on rabbits an shit, but don't force me to choose as I love all three. And all three of them take deer very well as well as humble soft bodied bunnys

how do you vote sorry not a whiz on a computer

I think you should have included a .17 center fire, I have been shooting the .17 hornet and .17 fireball the last couple years, spot your shots, puff of fur or fethers, and the "wack" the .17 hornet makes, on gophers and small rabbits all add to the fun, great waking small game caliber's.
have a .204 or 6mm rem for long range. sold both my 22-250 and .223,

Just noticed this thread is three years old,

Originally Posted by southernman

Just noticed this thread is three years old,

We'll still argue like it's a fresh idea though ;-)

.223 Has always been my choice, even more so with the likes of the 53gr VMax projectile

22 hornet or 222 I'm showing my age

Originally Posted by Monsterbishi

.223 Has always been my choice, even more so with the likes of the 53gr VMax projectile

The 53 Vmax is very explosive on wallabies, hares etc - rather emphatically dead.

It did surprisingly well with a neck shot on a fallow buck too - certainly wouldn't be my normal choice of deer bullet but its what I had and the deer had already been wounded by someone else. Smashed the vertebrae and dropped it on the spot.

243 Win.
55 gr Nosler BT's
Running at 3690fps.

Roos out to 500yds
Hares and rabbits beyond 300 easy.

Outshoots and flatter than a 223.

And can go up to 100gr pills for deer and pigs.