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Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby yukonjasper on Mon May 03, 2021 2:58 pm

What caliber and platform are you guys using. I'm having a debate with a Fudd who thinks AR platform is ridiculous and he thinks, not based on experience, that .22 bolt is all you should need. I think he is trolling me......it's working....
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon May 03, 2021 3:04 pm

Depends on what varmint or predator you are after and at what distance.

I typically use an AR set up in .223 for yotes, but people hunt them with anything.

Depends as well on if you want to save the pelts.
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby yukonjasper on Mon May 03, 2021 4:33 pm

I used coyotes at 100 to 150 yards.
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby OldmanFCSA on Mon May 03, 2021 4:58 pm

I used my RPR 338LM to shoot my last coyote - did not save anything - not worth saving anything - 260 yards 300 grain Accubond.

Normally I use a 25-06 to exterminate, or a 243 with 80 gr FMJ if I want to save the pelt (sold the 243).
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby Stugotz on Mon May 03, 2021 6:02 pm

In my experience, the AR platform is the only way to go - for hunting prairie dogs. My friends and I have been going out west hunting P. Dogs for years. We have on occasion invited out someone who swears by a bolt action rifle, after 1 week with us shooting our AR's they have ALWAYS added an AR (.223 Rem. same as we shoot) ad show up with that as their primary P. Dog platform. Always! I have built myself 3 AR-15's that I use for P. Dog hunting and last summer built one in .204 Remington. For hog hunting down in Texas and Florida, I built another AR15 in 6.5 Grendel. It's a real hammer! I also use it on Coyotes mainly because I have an Atlas HALO LR-50 thermal mounted on it but it's an over kill. Any of my other AR-15 platforms will work perfectly for Coyotes though. 8-)
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby Rowdy Roddy on Mon May 03, 2021 7:36 pm

yukonjasper wrote:I used coyotes at 100 to 150 yards.


And he says use a 22LR?
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon May 03, 2021 7:58 pm

Rowdy Roddy wrote:
yukonjasper wrote:I used coyotes at 100 to 150 yards.


And he says use a 22LR?

That’s a better shooter than me.
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby LarryFlew on Tue May 04, 2021 12:55 am

Holland&Holland wrote:
Rowdy Roddy wrote:
yukonjasper wrote:I used coyotes at 100 to 150 yards.


And he says use a 22LR?

That’s a better shooter than me.


SLIGHT holdover - about 10 inch drop at 100 with cheap blazer ammo Ruger 10/22.

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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby Bearcatrp on Tue May 04, 2021 5:28 am

A 243 with 95 gr SST will do the job well. Oldman using his 338 LM sounds even better.
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby Holland&Holland on Tue May 04, 2021 6:02 am

LarryFlew wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:
Rowdy Roddy wrote:
And he says use a 22LR?

That’s a better shooter than me.


SLIGHT holdover - about 10 inch drop at 100 with cheap blazer ammo Ruger 10/22.

H do you now need to add Beretta in front of the two Hs?

I was thinking more of the 20 inches at 150 and the 40ish at 200 on a moving target that needs a precise hit with the energy left. Not within my comfort zone.
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby yukonjasper on Tue May 04, 2021 11:32 am

.22 was too light for that range. Basically, I think the guy is an idiot. His counter argument was that if I was doing it right a shotgun would be all I needed and a .22 would work at the distance a shotgun would work. The key is how close in you could expect to call them in. If you are close enough, a steak knife would work, but that isn't realistic.

He is also a silly liberal so there is much we don't agree on.
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby LarryFlew on Tue May 04, 2021 11:46 am

yukonjasper wrote:

He is also a silly liberal so there is much we don't agree on.


MIGHT have mentioned that to start with ;-). kind of translates to man without a clue in my mind.
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby yukonjasper on Tue May 04, 2021 12:37 pm

LarryFlew wrote:
yukonjasper wrote:

He is also a silly liberal so there is much we don't agree on.


MIGHT have mentioned that to start with ;-). kind of translates to man without a clue in my mind.


He is definitely a Fudd. Believes the government is really out to make everyone safer.

Clueless is not the word.......
Same guy that when I received an expensive bottle of Scotch and offered to let him sample, when I turned my back to get a glass, he grabbed the bottle, popped the cork and took a swig off the bottle...... :evil:
WTF
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby armedwalleye on Tue May 04, 2021 1:33 pm

Well, I'd suggest the first mistake was trying to have an intelligent conversation with an unarmed man.
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Re: Caliber for predator/varmint hunting

Postby xd ED on Tue May 04, 2021 4:09 pm

yukonjasper wrote:
LarryFlew wrote:
yukonjasper wrote:

He is also a silly liberal so there is much we don't agree on.


MIGHT have mentioned that to start with ;-). kind of translates to man without a clue in my mind.


He is definitely a Fudd. Believes the government is really out to make everyone safer.

Clueless is not the word.......
Same guy that when I received an expensive bottle of Scotch and offered to let him sample, when I turned my back to get a glass, he grabbed the bottle, popped the cork and took a swig off the bottle...... :evil:
WTF


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