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

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7.62 View Post
    As most of the others have suggested a 1/8 twist 223 is the ticket.

    If you like inefficiency, throat erosion, and the limitations of a slow twist barrel (probably), go 22-250.

    If you like a relatively poor choice of factory ammo, and the risk of mediocre performance on larger game (like an 80kg billy), go 204
    We are shooting Hare And Rabbits, Goats, fallow need a bit more agreed, I find accuracy of a 223 is just not there?
    Boom, cough,cough,cough

 

 

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