The season is almost upon us!

[Gr8Scott]

I want to know what you varmint and other hunting fanatics have done to get ready for the upcoming season?

I've bought a bipod for my bull barreled wonder along with a picatinny detacheable rail thingy. Now I think it would be a good idea to reduce the height of the scope with new rings. After that, this thing should be golden for groundhogs out to a considerable range. At the moment, she seems to be suffering from vertical stringing and I'll bet that is primarily due to me not being able to get a proper cheek weld because my scope is mounted too high.

[Poodleshooter]

I'd second that guess. My current HBAR is occasionally scoped on the carry handle (stop laughing), since I can't afford a flattop just yet, and I won't trade for one as I use the A2 for highpower competition.
I get the same vertical stringing you mention, as my cheekweld is damn hard to maintain. My best groups yet were a strung out 1.25" at 100yds, with all holes touching in an almost perfect vertical line. With a lower mount, I could probably have put them inside .5"

[Gr8Scott]

After testing it at the range, I got the same vertical stringing. I'll have to try other rounds and see what happens. The gun did an outstanding job popping golfballs at 100 yards. It was sighted in a little low (I should have spent more time getting it right). Golfballs at 100 on a windy day should be good enough for gumbmint work until I can figure out what is causing the stringing.

[Poodleshooter]

Is the barrel free-floated? Shooting off of hard platforms or from a tightly slung position without free-floating usually causes vertical strings to some degree. Mine's standard, which partly explains the stringing. Most of the human errors cause horizontal strings,IIRC.

[Gr8Scott]

It's free floated 100%. I even went so far as to make sure that I had a bipod adapter installed on the handguard instead of the gas block for this very reason. Hmm.... I think I need to start reloading with this gun and dial in the loads for this particular rifle.

Laterally, this gun shoots very very accurately. It's a 1 hole gun if I could get the vertical spread to match the horizontal spread.

[xdrkwonx]

I'm going on my first varmint hunt upstate with a Marine buddy of mine (woodchuck). It's a contest actually, it's town sanctioned and you just drive around the whole area and whoever gets the most chucks (2 man teams) wins like 50 bucks I think...

I've got a question though. I've got a cetme that is pretty accurate, a brand new RRA m4 that I can shoot close to moa with, and two remington 30-06's, a 700 and a 7400. I have to bring two guns (one for my buddy). Anyone know which firearms to bring and lastly what ranges to zero them in at? My local range has 50, 100 and 200 yrds... And I was thinking about using just plain jane xm193, good, bad?

Thanks guys,

Shawn

[Gr8Scott]

See if you can find some accellerator rounds for the 30.06. If you can locate them, get a couple of packs and dial the scope in for them and use whichever 30.06 groups better with them. Don't use a 30 cal highpowered rifle round on something as small as a varmint unless you can find rapidly expanding varmint rounds specifically made for that calibur. If not, you will probably have issues with overpenetration and noone wants to deal with that. Use the RRA rifle for sure. Borrow another gun if you can't find the accelerator rounds or don't like the accuracy they give.

Zero for 100 in most cases. Zero farther out and learn the drop tables for that particular round if you are going to be in terrain where there are likely to be long shots.

Get good expanding varmint ammo. Hornady and Winchester is good stuff and pretty accurate. If you have to prove your kills, the hollowpoints will pay for themselves. Don't touch the varmints with your hands or with something you intend to handle later unless you like the idea of fighting monkey pox. They can carry this disease and it's best to leave them laying if you pop one.

[Poodleshooter]

I used a .308 loaded with a fast expanding,handloaded 125gr core-lokt Remington SP to pop a turkey last year. It tore the neck to bits. You can certainly use large bore rifles as varmint rifles, but be mindful of your backdrop.

[klawndyke]

OK I just broke down and spent a little change on a new Bushmaster Varminter xm15 e2s. my next buy will be a bipod but I am not sure on the right bipod.. any one have any goodluck on one and where did you find it..

[Gr8Scott]

Go with a harris with the notched legs and a swivel. Very good bipod and they can be had for roughly $89 or so.

[klawndyke]

I have really been looking at those they look like a well built bipod. do you have a model number for the bipod.. lol they only have about 12 diffrent ones. so i am not sure what model to buy.
Cant wait to use this set up. I will be moving to Nevada in a couple months and my brother inlaw said its fun varmit shooting there..cant wait :D

[Gr8Scott]

I don't know the model #. Sorry. Look around and I'm sure you will find it. Brownells probably has the one you want I'm sure.

[klawndyke]

Bought a harris bipod.. cant wait to ad it ..
Thanks Gr8Scott

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