Thread: just Varminting - how far was your longest shot on your last walk

Originally Posted by rossi.45

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longest hit today 390yrds

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.243 Tikka Varmint - 87grn.VMax
8-32 NXS Nightforce

Have you got a labrador to retrieve or did you have to walk all that way to pick the bunnies up?

Originally Posted by Gibo

Don't do any varminting myself but snotted a magpie at 460 yards with a few of the boys while gong shooting, silly bugger landed on the post next to the gong @nickbop @Hunt4life

I went to last of the "Sniper Shoots" Harry Hoover used to hold on that station near Matamata and shot a magpie at 700 yards sitting on the rail holding the gongs. That was on the Practice day on the Saturday when there was buggerall wind though !!! The rifle was a big heavy barrel-blocked 300WSM I built and still have.

That one, except its in 7mm now. Fark knows how to turn it up the other way sorry.

@Gibo that was the first time I’d seen anyone shoot over 250m and hit what they were aiming at!

Originally Posted by nickbop

@Gibo that was the first time I’d seen anyone shoot over 250m and hit what they were aiming at!

Now look at ya

Originally Posted by LRP

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That one, except its in 7mm now. Fark knows how to turn it up the other way sorry.

That was easier than turning the pc over Thats a nice rifle.

Originally Posted by LRP

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That one, except its in 7mm now. Fark knows how to turn it up the other way sorry.

that is one lethal lookin weapon . . reminds me of the Boys antitank rifle

with the clamp on the barrel i am guessing its a free floating barrel and action ?

Originally Posted by rossi.45

that is one lethal lookin weapon . . reminds me of the Boys antitank rifle

with the clamp on the barrel i am guessing its a free floating barrel and action ?

Yeah mate it's a "barrel block" setup. Barrel block rifles used to be more common back before all the many custom actions appeared in the market.
That gun is bloody accurate, has all top components and being 7kg in weight will always be easier to shoot well than a lightweight rig.
Took it goat shooting a month or so back, after finally finding a farmer who would let us shoot a few way up high in these narly hills where he couldn't muster them. We drove right up to the top of this guys block and were up high looking across this big gully with the morning fog just below us, so I could clearly see there was no wind, and there at 450 yards was a nanny sitting in the sun side-on just minding her own business. My mate said "head shoot it", so I did. I had the perfect ground position to shoot from. Dialled it up first with a Sig Sauer 2400ABS. We only shot 2 each, but dropped off beers to the farmer and made a good contact for another trip sometime.

shot these 3 over 5 minutes between 380-400yrds.

sadly no Lab to go and get them @Dundee
took a walk over to check the VMax performance . . explosive

longest misses 700-740yrds but soooo ferkn close, damm that twitchy wind

before i went for a walk i put a few shot on paper at 100yrds. & 1 at 400yrds on steel to check everything is working as it should with a crosswind of 3-5mph
still shooting under .5MOA at a counted 700 rounds thru the barrel . . a recrown was done at 650 rounds


1 x 1.5 inch square at 400yrds . . . happy as


this Aussie guy is still putting out good vids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ETKkoWUFc

Got a hare at 280m and a magpie at 170m on Sunday morning with my 20br.

Originally Posted by Friwi

Got a hare at 280m and a magpie at 170m on Sunday morning with my 20br.

some more info on the 20BR would be cool @Friwi

Originally Posted by rossi.45

before i went for a walk i put a few shot on paper at 100yrds. & 1 at 400yrds on steel to check everything is working as it should with a crosswind of 3-5mph
still shooting under .5MOA at a counted 700 rounds thru the barrel . . a recrown was done at 650 rounds
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1 x 1.5 inch square at 400yrds . . . happy as
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this Aussie guy is still putting out good vids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ETKkoWUFc

Hey Rossi just a question, obviously you are getting excellent accuracy ect with vmaxs without question. just wondering why you dont use higher b.c projectiles for wind cutting ability ect.

Originally Posted by rossi.45

some more info on the 20BR would be cool @Friwi

Hi Rossi,
So I built that rifle because a friend had the reamer and i had seen spectacular results with it. ( his first two live game after load development and drop chart were two magpies at 350 and 400m with rounds number 1 and 2).
The reamer is a neck turn (229) . Barrel is true flite remington varmint profile, 24" long, built on a Rem 788 that I blueprinted. Timney trigger ken henderson carbon tactical hunter stock.( I am not sure he will ever re do an inlet for that action as it is so tricky with that stock pattern).
I am shooting a 39gr sierra blitz king at 3950 fps. I am using vita n133 powder.
I choose the Remington 788 so I can mag feed easily. The rifle is shooting well, but not exceptionally well yet , I still have the odd flyer and that could come from the fact that my first 50 lapua cases were from a second hand batch of 6 mm br.
I will try with a new batch to see if consistency improves. I also need to work up a bit my seating depth and change scope as I damaged my old leupold 6.5-20-40.
The gun was originally designed for Shooting magpies.
If I had to do it again I would go with a no turn neck reamer, a single shot action ( Barnard s or Remington7 or its clone).0 Moa rail ( I have a 20 Moa that does not serve any purpose for that flat Shooting cartridge) use a full length sizing die instead of just a type s neck die.
I built a 204 ruger on Howa mini action in a plastic stock with a standard tikka contour barrel last June and it does shoot as well with factory ammo than the 20 br with all the hard work. So if you are into Shooting more than reloading go with the 204.

I started with a Savage Long Range Varminter in 22-250 but I started doing LR and realised the BC of .25 made my enormous 12lb rifle ridiculous. I sold it and got a 6.5x284 Savage F-class and I regret selling it to buy a PM2. It shot freakish groups. It was used for 100m blowfly shooting. Would have made a great varmint rifle but the Zeiss Conquest I had on it broke on the drive over to the only varmint shoot I took it on (thus the PM2).

I built a Sako 75 6.5x47L as a varmint rifle first and foremost and and awkward heavy hunting rifle second. It was a very reliable rifle even in a bit of breeze out to 400m. Best shots with that rifle were 410m rabbits but I shot a lot at around 400m. At 350-400m rabbits did not react to the suppressed shots but I could shot consistently, so I would set up this distance from faces. I never shot for records, but I shot a lot of rabbits on properties where they are normally hard to get. An expensive but very productive way to cull rabbits. I had to sell this rifle a while back.

I currently have another Sako 75 waiting to turn into either another 6.5x47L or a fast twist 22-250