This and the cost, are the reason I favor the 17 fireball, 17 hornet. Just worth considering if you want to see the kill on a small target. 223 (or even the HMR) unless I know that the ranges are getting out to +250m or the breeze is getting up, at which point I start going up in the caliber.
When I am out hunting rabbits, I take the. 22-250 recoil is just enough for you to miss some impacts.243 is hopeless. 223 recoil allows you to maintain vision on the target. Having shot several thousand rabbits in the Hawkes Bay in the past two years, the difference between shooting the. Its actually quite amusing and sometime damn hilarious! Therefore being able to witness the impact is (IMHO) quite important.īigger calibers with higher recoil and high powered scopes with small fields of view means missed acrobatics. One thing to consider when hunting small varmints such as rabbits at long range is that part of the (sick) pleasure derived from the sport (refer to the thread about what we find relaxing) is the acrobatics they perform when being hit by the high speed projectile. So far the 6mm is sounding like the best of both worlds and 6.5 CM is looking good too.Īgain keep the replies coming I appreciate your feedback.
I can get hold of projectiles and factory ammunition at a reasonable discount and would like to be able to shoot factory ammo in a pinch. I would like to use this rifle for varmints and the occasional steel shoot to 1000m (max). I also like to do target and long range plinking out to 1600m. Although I did try 90 gr TNT on rabbits and wallabies I also have a 264 Win Mag as my main hunting rifle but recoil / powder use / barrel life makes it a foolish choice for bunnies. I got my wife a Tikka 223 (chopped to 12") and It is good to 200m+ on rabbits but again slow twist so if I want to be sensible I will use that. Just to clarify some questions I had a 223, 22-250 and 22-243 and sold them all eventually because although I loved the velocity and terminal performance (that 22-243 is unbelievable) they were not set up twist wise for the high BC 75gr and up pills. Hi Guys thanks to everyone who has taken their time to reply to the thread, your all good buggers Honorable mention to 300H&H and 9.3圆2, but both are just a little bit overkill on rabbits and too expensive to run, very effective thought. 264 win, and a 100gr, Ballistic tip, low volume shooting due to very! short barrel life.
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260 or 2506,įor Pure DRT there big or small, nothing can come close, too a full throttle load form a.
222,įor varminting and the odd deer, fast twist 22-250 or 6mm Remington,įor a deer rifle with the odd day of low volume bunny busting. 264 win,įor pure varminting I would take the. 25 bullets have as good or better bc light for cal bullets that the 6mm bore does, 25cal's, despite the horseshit you here on here about shit BC bullets, both the 257 Roberts and 2506, are very capable, out further than the 6mm bores, and before everyone chimes in, the light weight 85-100gr. dusted a few coyotes at over 500m.Ĭouple other points, the bigger the cartridge, the more recoil, one you get into 6mm and 6.5 you cant spot your shots, in the scope, for pure varminting the fast. 264 win has sum serious long legs, with a 120gr ballistic tip at full throttle, forget speed, but 3500plus I think. Too expensive, not as many choices, of light weight varmint bullets, more a med game cal, with the odd bullet option for small game, bullets are more expensive the bigger the bore. 264 win, haven't really used either for varmints much, but have used both, for predator hunting, when I lived in Canada, both with the 120gr ballistic tip, I also had a couple of 22-250, love that cal, but the mid size 6mm bore, is far more flexible and versatile, on a wider range of game, and has multiple bullets from each manufacture, suitable for small and med game. 243, much prefer the 6mm Remington, bit faster, but found it far easier, to get several, projectiles to similar point of impact,Ħ5gr v-max, and a hunting load of 85 gr partion, both have same point of impact at 200m,Ħ5gr v-max is pushing to 3850fps plus, and turns, gophers, rabbits, hares and coyotes, to paddock fertilizer. I have a 6mm Remington, that I use, also had a.
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