Thread: What LR Varmit Round

The 22-243 is a great round but for me a 6mm 284 is king 105gr or 107gr BC around .550, 3300fps to 3400fps

22-243 barrel life ?

1500 or there abouts, depends how hard you push them. I've never had to rebarrel because I've worn one out. Not a round you would use for high volume shooting (a 500 round weekend up central) but for roos and long range rabbits no problem.

always had a hankering for a 17 mk IV. Might invest in a 17 fireball one day soon.

G'Day Fella's,

Muzr, I have been at this for a while now but due to the lack of bunnies (here in Oz) and busy with work, I haven't done a lot of it in recent years.
I have what apparently is termed as a Live Varmint, switch barrel rifle.
The first barrel I had fitted to it, was in .22-250AI, with a 1-14" twist.
In hindsight, it would have been smarter to go with a 1 -8" fast twist barrel and shot heavier bullets!

If I really wanted the Ducks Guts long range varminter, I reckon you would be hard pressed to beat a .243Win! ?
Shootin 80 + grain bullets through it, would have to help on windy days and the 55 grainers @ 4K fps for Splat Factor extreme!!!
You can get a choice of so many benchrest quality Barrels, Bullets etc in 6mm, I reckon you would be hard pressed to beat it!

Hope that helps

Doh!
Homer

Muz the cartridge you NEED is a 240 Badger, spits a 85gr out at 3600fps with great accuracy......Kiwi

Originally Posted by Tussock

22-250 shooting 80g Amax. Easy and no shagging around. You can buy Lapua brass for it ready to roll.

I had a build all lined up. Then I realized I already owned a 6.5x47Lapua and so I just bought more brass.

So, Im with the Claw on this one. 6.5x47L

If I build the lapua on the model 7 action I hope to get back soon. I will have 3 x 6.5's. So as far as varmiting goes I should be covered. The 6.5-06 firing anything under 100grs should be pretty scary.

6.5 fatso...... 140 amax 3500 fps

Originally Posted by baldbob

6.5 fatso...... 140 amax 3500 fps

Oi go to bed!!!! That's scorching!!
I spose your normally hauling a line around now?

No just pulled in the drive at home.. Napier to home 14 gruesome mr hours

Originally Posted by baldbob

6.5 fatso...... 140 amax 3500 fps

wildcats had one, a custom Duley Rem 700 Ti jobbie, it was more of a med large game gun though.

I'm surprised the 22-250 or 204 hasn't been mentioned more.

Originally Posted by RimfireNZ

I'm surprised the 22-250 or 204 hasn't been mentioned more.

to slow and to boring

22-250Ai and 243AI is the two I load for but 6x284 and 6mmRemAI are two I would like to play with....but I dont have the need. 22-243 is allmost boring too now

Starting to think about a 22x47 Lapua. Somewhere between a 22-250 and the ackley version of it in powder capacity, but similar to the ackley in performance. 22-243 sounds great performance wise but as a varmint cartridge I know that too many rounds would get cranked through the barrel in too a short a time for me... maybe I would get a bit more barrel life out of the 47 case....

Either the 22 version or maybe the 6x47 lapua..?

Originally Posted by Tussock

I had my 22-250 with 55g V-Max at 3900ft/sec alongside my 6.5x47Lapua with 140 Amax at 2800ft/sec and for shooting varmints, the 22-250 was a joke. Compared to the 6.5x47 it was horribly inconsistent. It shot super tight groups and had epic velocity and you couldnt hit a dman thing compared to the 6.5x47Lapua. 22-250 was working pretty hard for bunnies with any consistence at 250m with any wind at all and the 6.5x47 was basically dead boring to 250m and consistent to 350m, 350m-400m is achievable every shot if you keep your wits about you and further out is doable and good fun. 22-250 was sold immediately.

I would like to build another using a fast twist barrel and shoot 80g Amaxs at 3000+. That would be a good gun.

the second 22-250 I built for Rob is a 1:8 twist running the 75gr amax... got 100 lapua cases and set up the form fire load with 12 cases then gave him the rest to fire....only 2 of the 88 wern't dead rabbits, nothing too far away but when we ran the 55gr pills about a third+ were misses especialy in wind were it would be half the shots missed, He loves his lighter fast twist 22-250AI (std prfile 24" barrel now instead of a head 26" barrel) the only down fall is they dont "blow up" the same....