Best Varmit Rifle?
What would everyone suggest? An AR-15 style or a bolt action rifle? What are the pros and cons? I'm looking to buy. Thanks.
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Be more specific. What price range, what type of varmints are you hunting, what distance will you be shooting, will you be hunting any at night if legal to do so, etc. If it is strictly for hunting, I would use a bolt gun for the better accuracy. The bolt gun with have a smaller magazine, but if you are a competent shot, you shouldn't need a 30 round mag when hunting. The AR will have endless amounts of add-ons for every situation possible, while on the bolt gun all I would think you would need would be a good scope and a bipod. 0 -
I would like to stick around $1000. I cant hunt at night and feel like I'm a competant shot. I shot on a college rifle team. I would like to shoot out to 400 yards. Any help on calibers and gun make? 0 -
For your price range you are going to have a good time getting into an AR with super accuracy.
I love my target AR. I had thought about a bolt .223 for a long time but other then spending money on another gun I would gain nothing in accuracy.
AR mags come in sizes from 1rd to 120rds so it can actually have any size mag you choose. Depending on what kind of hunting you are doing will depend on how many rounds you may need in a gun. Get into a good dog town and a 120rd mag may not be enough. IIRC there was a 200rd mag similar to the Beta mags but dont think it ever made to production. Personally I prefer 20rd mags in my target AR as do many others.0 -
Still don't know what your target will be. Small chucks and ground squirrels, at that range, I'd say anything from a .223 to Swift.
Coyotes, I want something more like a .243 or .25-06.
You get the accuracy you need in either platform, but it will come a lot cheaper in a bolt.0 -
Savage 12 with a decent scope in 223 or 22-250 or 204 ruger would be a fine choice for prarie dogs and the like. You should get into that for around $1000, gun and glass. Maybe even a tad less. 0 -
Hard to beat a Savage. 0 -
OK, what varmint?
What terrain
What setting?
What scope and magnification? If you do not have a scope, and it comes out of your $1000,you are limiting yourself a good bit with the $ for the scope, or the $ for the rifle or the $ for both!
If that $1000 is for the entire rig with glass and all, jong's probably right on.
If I were thinking of serious hunting for coyotes, bobcats and such ... and out to 400 yards, I would leaning towards a 6mm/243 and up through the 25s.
If after jacks and ground squirrels just about anything
If prairie dogs and chucks ... I'd be looking for the best accurate, long barreled, bolt actioned rifle and optics that I could afford. But I'm no expert on that shooting! Just the direction that I would take.
The caliber is not usually the limiting factor, regarding the price of your rig. Rather the manufacturer and model and of course the glass.
For me, I would tend to believe the ARs for playing military, for self and property defense, for plinking and range play. That is just my leanings.
Good luck to you, which ever way you decide to go.0 -
Ok, if your want to do it "good." Here is the fun time: Remington 700 220 Swift, fluted S.S. barrel, Nikon High porwer scope, Harris Bi-Pod! Either load your own or use Hornady ammo.[:)] 0 -
Hawkster, that sounds great! What would be a real nice retail price run for that rig? That set-up would run about the dame in any caliber too, no doubt. 0 -
AR-15.
In short, Because it is the most accurate non custom small bore semi automatic rifle on the market.
you can get bull barreled uppers chambered in .17 remington, .204 ruger, and .223remington.0
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