Thread: Varmint rifle

Originally Posted by Bill999

6x47 involves building a rifle.
seems like alot of effort to go to to get a lightly loaded 243 that you cant buy bullets for.
wildcats are fun, but they are a luxury rifle rather than a mans one working rifle

the difference really between the 25-06 and 243 which I see as the front runners, is what is your planned distance to shoot over?
how are you with recoil?
do you like light rifles?
how many shots are you likely to use a year?
do they sell the reloading components for each one locally?
are you likely to do a string of shots?

Distance varies, Roos can be as far as you like, I'm no Olympic shooter by any means but with my bipod I'll comfortably have a crack at anything up to around 400-450m. Recoil doesn't bother me nor does having a light or heavy rifle. Fox and hare shooting is usually a shot every now and then but Roos can be several quick ones. Having said all this varmint abiotic is just a summer thing that gets me through to deer season mostly so I woulbt be hammering 1000 shots a year through it or anything. And now that red season is all year I'll probably so it less which is why I was thinking of slightly bigger calibers than 223 because at the end o the day it'll probably end up another deer rifle a fair portion of the time. So just don't know, still very indecisive about it all.

And to Toby, 6.5 swed was my first pick but I just don't need it having my .270 so I've set a max of 25-06