Just curious what is everyones favorite deer/ varmint rig for wide open rolling hills, where shots out to 500 yards can be expected? I like my .308 with 125 Nos. Ballistic tips.

It's varmint season for me now and I am shooting a Swift. Beyond 250 yards I am just guessing. I missed a pest at an estimated 250 and paced it at 350. I am shooting the 50 gr Blitz King at 4100.

I have a laser range finder on order.

I just had a fast twist 6BR Laupa built for long range P-Dog hunting. It will make its debut on 6/11/03. So far @200 yds it has turned in a 7 shot 1.34" group. Not impressed you say, that included one flier that had it been removed would have been a .48" group. This baby is gonna smoke-em at distance.

I'm really into the single shot specialty pistols, and for big game i'm using a 16" barrelled 6.5-284 XP. For coyote fur hunting it's a 17" .17 Mach IV XP, and for long-range varmints, I'm having a 16" 6-284 XP built.

sscoyote.......What kind of speed can you get out of the 6.5x284 xp ??

My favorite long range outfit as of now is a M-70 in .264 pushing 120gr ballistic tips at 3400 fps.....

If I can stand to pack it, my 12 lb. Rem. VSFS in .308. I like either the 150 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip for coyotes and Pronghorn, or the 168 gr. Barnes XLC for deer.
My testing seems to indicate the 165 gr. class bullets work best out of that round. The lighter bullets don't shoot flat enough to be of much value. The heavier bullets buck wind better, and hit a little harder.
I've got an 8.5 lb. .280 I rather like for that job as well. It shoots 120 gr. Barnes XBT's.
The .308 wears a Leo 3.5-10X40 Tactical and the .280 wears a 6X42 Leo with a target elevation knob. E

Sdgunslinger, i'm getting 2900 from the 129 gr. SST out of the 6.5 XP. Can't recall the load right now--i'm at work. Got a buddy of mine that's building a 17" 6.5-284 XP with all the bells and whistles for 1000 yd. shooting (maybe competitively). He's on the single shot pistol forum-- XPhunter.

[ 04-29-2003, 11:49: Message edited by: sscoyote ]

My favorite long range rig is my sporter weight .338WM. I do have a 220 Swift but I just love the mag because I've used it more before I got the swift.

My new favorite is a 260 Remington (6.5-08) shooting 123 grain Lapua Scenar bullets.
It takes 25 moa to get to 1000 yards based upon a 100 yard zero, has half the wind drift of a 308 shooting 175 grain Matchkings, and about half the recoil of the aforementioned 308.
Accurcy has been just this side of unbelievable. My younger brother put a 6 shot mini-group from a 20 shot string inside a 4" circle at 1000 yards back in January. I was doing pit duty on his target and had a tough time believing it. Two of the 6 shots came within a whisker of shooting the spotter center pin.

I use all Savage HB long range outfits, from BVSS 223s, a 7-08 FP, a 308 LE1, a custom 6.5x308AI Pac Nor for extreme range, and just put together a 300 Win FP for breezy days, using 180 gr MKs. My main target is extreme range p/dogs, out to 1000+ yds. Hopefully the 300 Win will break the 1004 yd kill record, taken with the 7-08 FP. Scopes are Burris 6x20s...Weaver T16s...and Elite 6x24s.

If I was to shoot 500 yards, I would use my .264 Win Mag with the 26" Lilja #3 countour barrel and the 129 Hornady. Works well at 400.

My favorite long range rig is a Savage 110 action, with a 26" Hart SS barrel on it, bedded in a Fagen varmint stock. This rifle quite often prints .25" groups (5 shots/100yds). I use it as a long range woodchuck gun. She is a mite heavy though at 13lbs. I'm considering toting it around in a golf cart. The action is glassed, barrel floated and trigger lightened. It's been my favorite rifle for a number of years. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

I haven't been into the long-range game very long, but on one of the long-range forums (www.longrangehunting.com), many of those guys go for tricked out Savages, Winchesters, and of course Remingtons, and especially the Sendero in one of the SUM cases for entry level long-ranging.

[ 05-04-2003, 10:36: Message edited by: sscoyote ]

My long range pest control rifle is a .257 Ackley Improved, very heavy barrel, on 700 action with Choate sniper stock, rifleing cut for heavy bullets and a 8-32 Burris Signature scope. No problem taking coyotes at 600 yds, (If I do my part) Also have very effective muzzle brake, not so much for recoil but able to see hits at long ranges

7STW built on a Rem 700.With a 27" Douglas barrel pushing a 120gr V-Max to 3700fps.Can you say splat

257stw 700 action 28" douglas barrel 90gr hp at 3935 fps.or swift with 50gr at 4000 fps

Rock River NM AR-15 with Black Hills match/75 gr Hornady Match BTHP. Proven to 600 yards.

Custom Reminton .300win mag. With a 5.5-22 Night force.
My one and only shot at long range deer was a spike buck at 712 yards. I had enough time to re set the gun and watch the hit( 14 Lbs with a muzzel brake).
One shot one kill. Unfortunately I saw through the scope that something wasn't quite right.

After the 20 minute walk to get to the animal I discovered that I had shot off one of his horns!
Not where I was aiming at.
Never again.
Just curious. Am I the only guy here that has blown a shot?

Jamie

I don't shoot at game much past 350 yards. Way too many things have to go just right for a quick, humane kill.

I reserve my long range shooting for targets. I all reality, I use the NRA highpower definitions for short, medium, and long range. Short: 0-300 yards, medium: 300-600 yards, long: 600-1000 yards.

Mine is my 25/06 Remington,Model,700BDL,with hand loads.57gr of I.M.R.4831,and Speer 100gr boat tail,3290fps.

A long shot for me would be about 300 yards. For that, I'd chose my G33-40 Mauser 6mmRem or Brno ZKK-601 223Rem. Not your ultra long range high tech rigs popular today but my favorites never-the-less.

I like the 7mm Rem Mag with 150 grain Swift Scirocco's, or partitions.