Thread: just Varminting - how far was your longest shot on your last walk

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Why are you collecting the blood in an ash bucket suthy? Will you be burning it to make some sort of 'spell' with the ashes ?

Catching maggots to feed chickens?

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

You must have a mt palomar telescope fitted to it.

5-25X56 minox
huge scope, heavy rifle and lots of luck

Originally Posted by LRP

Sorry to butt in here but I have no idea how to put up an Auction for a scope I want to sell. Can somebody direct me to the instructions on here re how to do that ?

The scope I want to sell is the one in this link : Untitled Document.

Mine is actually branded as a "Nikko Stirling Diamond Supreme 16x42" but is exactly the same as the Lynx one in the link and it's had very little use since I bought it new ..... $300

Follow this;

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....ms-guide-8087/

690 yards
Shot a goat with my 243 and 87 Vmax

Also 320 yards shot a rabbit with 300 win mag 208 eldm and 500 yards goat with 6.5CM 140 eldm

Serious question... does a goat really qualify as a varmint?

The wife sitting next to me says not really eh, I mean some of our goats are bigger than roe deer! So she says.

(She was pretty unimpressed with the roe deer she came across in England and Scotland recently. We're in the woods and its Pah! They're like duikers! What's all the fuss about?! This didn't particularly impress my rabid mad roe deer stalking mate.)

It's an American word of course, varmint, and to the best of my knowledge the largest official varmint is a coyote. Not sure where the line is drawn between varminting and predator hunting, I guess its wolves and mountain lions and the like.

Any Americans care to clarify?

Put some 22 ammo over the radar today.
Most consistent was CCI standard Velocity.

I used my marlin 60 deluxe and a pooger precision 22 a mate wanted me to shoot for him.
I shot a heap of groups at 50 and 100
Just wasn't with it today for some reason. I felt like I was in a rush but there was no reason to be.
Best group at 50 was .3 for 5 rnds of cci standard vel out of my marlin and same ammo went nearly 2" at 100.
Ruger shot the the cci standard best as well at .5 @ 50m and 1.5 at 100
Next best was surprisingly the cci stinger for accuracy in both rifles.

Cci standard velocity. Not sure if a temp thing or barrel is just a bit dirty but had this ammo before in same rifle with an ES of 20fps and thru my pistol an ES of 30fps.

New to me Hornady 40 grn made by cci?

Cci stinger

Browning 40grn

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Originally Posted by Flyblown

Serious question... does a goat really qualify as a varmint?

The wife sitting next to me says not really eh, I mean some of our goats are bigger than roe deer! So she says.

(She was pretty unimpressed with the roe deer she came across in England and Scotland recently. We're in the woods and its Pah! They're like duikers! What's all the fuss about?! This didn't particularly impress my rabid mad roe deer stalking mate.)

It's an American word of course, varmint, and to the best of my knowledge the largest official varmint is a coyote. Not sure where the line is drawn between varminting and predator hunting, I guess its wolves and mountain lions and the like.

Any Americans care to clarify?

Rabbits & Hares are small enough to be a real challenge at LR . . . Goats not so much.

while a Goat at 500 takes skills etc ( well done @NewbieZAR ) its not going to get a Varminter excited, a 500 yard hit on a Rabbit will get your attention

Serious question... does a goat really qualify as a varmint ?
great question !

next question naturally follows on @Flyblown . . what is a serious Varmint shooter ?

this guy i think is a good example . . . i like the fact he shows not only his LR successes but also his stupid easy 200M shots that miss . . . which happens when your A game slips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taLm8Ij322k

Originally Posted by rossi.45

Serious question... does a goat really qualify as a varmint ?
great question !

next question naturally follows on @Flyblown . . what is a serious Varmint shooter ?

this guy i think is a good example . . . i like the fact he shows not only his LR successes but also his stupid easy 200M shots that miss . . . which happens when your A game slips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taLm8Ij322k

Interesting how he uses game kings.

I would have thought that since a rabbit is well... A light skinned rabbit then the cheap as chips fmj you can buy would be the best option. Cheap shooting.

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

Interesting how he uses game kings.

I would have thought that since a rabbit is well... A light skinned rabbit then the cheap as chips fmj you can buy would be the best option. Cheap shooting.

he does seem to play around with different bullet types . . maybe they shoot really well in that Tikka of his

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

Interesting how he uses game kings.

I would have thought that since a rabbit is well... A light skinned rabbit then the cheap as chips fmj you can buy would be the best option. Cheap shooting.

I use those same 55gr SGK's in my model 7 223, it freakin loves them. They work just fine on Rabbits at 200+ yards, and the beauty of those bullets that if you come across anything larger they work fine too, as you can see in my video here:

Originally Posted by rossi.45

he does seem to play around with different bullet types . . maybe they shoot really well in that Tikka of his

I just figured that cheaper the better cos if the high volume shooting.

Originally Posted by GWH

I use those same 55gr SGK's in my model 7 223, it freakin loves them. They work just fine on Rabbits at 200+ yards, and the beauty of those bullets that if you come across anything larger they work fine too, as you can see in my video here:

I just figured they cost more than those bulk fmj

Yup nothing wrong with the GameKings, bloody good, used the 55grainers for years back in the day in my first .223. Been trying to get Wingman to try them in his 6mm Dasher barrel but his gun is too posh for them eh mate.



This guy has a good channel. Lots of gear reviews and tutorials and some shit hot rabbit shooting in the Dales.

https://www.youtube.com/user/SharpshootingUK

Can't seem to upload video