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.

I think some people need to look at their shooting process if they’re losing sight picture, agree that you don’t want to be banging off a heap of high recoil loads, but you can still spot your shot even with the surpressed larger magnums if setup properly behind the rifle.