Best varminter

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Best varminter

Post by Chris » 03 May 2017, 5:43 pm

G day just join the this forum
My 270/308 imp ackly is on it way out
I was thinking a new 243win or a 25/06 for a new varminter HB
I do love making them long shots
What do you guy think

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Re: Best varminter

Post by MalleeFarmer » 14 Jun 2017, 11:56 am

If you're looking at getting a varminter I'd go with a .243 over a .25-06 there are a much wider variety of projectiles for the 6mm .243 vs the 1/4" .25

you'll get everything from light 55gr varmint projectiles up to 100gr medium game hunting projectiles and high BC 105 and even 115gr long range projectiles.

25-06 is limited to mainly hunting projectiles there may be a small selection of varmint and long range projectiles available.

Having said that The .25-06 is a reasonably common and popular cartridge and a very capable medium game cartridge and no doubt would do fine on varmints as well being a high velocity small bore cartridge
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Re: Best varminter

Post by yoshie » 14 Jun 2017, 1:31 pm

260?
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Re: Best varminter

Post by RoginaJack » 14 Jun 2017, 3:48 pm

Nah, 243Win by far!
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Re: Best varminter

Post by 308cool » 17 Jun 2017, 8:19 pm

25-06!
Can load some 75g v-max's pushing 3800 fps and then load some 117's for bigger things. Or you can just meet in the middle and use 100g pills (nosler BT's are good!)
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Re: Best varminter

Post by animalpest » 21 Jun 2017, 1:37 am

The issue of .243 having more variety of bullets to chose from is really a furphy. 40 and 50 grain pills out of .224 and .243 calibres are for rabbits. You don't use every choice of bullet weight, you select a couple and use these. As an example, I use the 75gn in my 25/06 V-Max for varmints (read foxes, wild dogs and roos) and it is all I use. In the .243 the 87gn V-Max and I can tell you it is not the same as the 25/06. Even using the same bullet weight in the .243 does not cause the same damage as the 25/06. Wild dogs shot with the 25/06 out to 420m over a spotlight just fell over.

In a comparison of 130 wild dogs shot during just 20 days (spaced over 12 months), the .223 was great for shots under 150m and was equivalent to the performance of the 22/250 at this range. We actually shot 2 dogs at once with a .223 and 22/250 using the same 55gn Sierra and they both had the exact same damage at shorter ranges. Of course, as ranges increase, the velocity of the 22/250 at say 150m+ will be the same as the .223 at 50m. So the 22/250 wins.

I have had some dramatic failures in some of the .22 cal plastic coated bullets so find a good bullet that will deliver the goods at all angles out to 200m+ on a chest shot, every time.

Having said that, here I was tonight out shooting foxes with a .222 :D

In my view, I would pick the 25/06, the .243, 22/250 then the .223 for longer range stuff on animals up to wild dogs/dingoes.
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