Thread: Varmint rifle for about that 350m max range?

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

Only negative with the bigger calibres is that the recoil is such that you loose your target in the sight picture in the scope, therefore you never get to see the splat! In my experience anything larger than .22-250 will be a problem unless you keep your scope magnification below about 8x.

Agree 100%. You want something with minimal recoil and muzzle jump for varminting, especially if it’s higher volume shooting. A 22-250 is about the limit. A heavy-ish suppressed 243 might be ok, but I would prefer a lighter cal personally. I’m surprised that there are recommendations for the OP to use his 270 for this role. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great idea to take your deer rifle out to chase some hares as this is great practice. But deer calibers have too much jump and recoil for proper varminting. Yes, you can use light projectiles with reduced loads, but speed rules with this type of hunting. You don’t always have time to range or dial so a high velocity flat shooting round is what’s required.