Deer cartridges for varminting?

[Guy Miner]

Went out for rockchucks with my son yesterday, and the little old 6mm Remington. He nailed the only chuck we saw, at about 150 yards. One shot, one chuck! :grin: Not an easy shot given the angle and the small amount of rockchuck exposed as a target, but he did a fine job. It's his "everything" rifle for now, varmints to mule deer. Am hoping to see more rockchucks as the weather warms a bit in the coming weeks.

 

[remingtonman_25_06]

Tell him good job on the chuck!! Its been so friggin windy around my part of the desert lately, I havne't got out to shooting much...

Did happen to shoot a badger the other day though. Went out looking for a coyote. My buddy missd one standing at 326 yards with his 257 WM. About 1/2 later I saw a badger on the side of the road and he ran across and got into his hole. I waited a couple minutes for him to pop back out and sure enough she did. I put a 100g NBT out of my 25-06 into her at about 75 yards. I even found the bullet in the bank after it exited, it weighed 45 grains!! Pretty big ol female, farmer should be a little bit more happy.

 

[RogueRiver]

I have shot a coyote with a 35 whelen, my dad routinely shoots the heads off grouse with his win 54 30-06( open sites) I don't know how he does it, but he does. I have never see him miss with that gun

 

[Britz]

I loaded some 110 gr vmax's in my 300wsm for plinking. fairly light load of h 380 and I get 3530 fps and sub half moa accuracy. It wouldn't be a good round to shoot all day because of the heat and the recoil lol!