reelhardmt
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I know its not a short action but I love the "Display" my 300 win gives on dogs. I've put the 125 BT's to 915 yards.
Yes! 8 twist should work for the 6mm 105-108s just fine. My personal 6mmAI wears a Bartlein 1-7, but I've never even tried the 115DTAC, which was my original 'plan'. 1-8 would have been just fine for varmints. I mostly shoot 107SMKs, but I have a box of 90SMKs that I need to try. Both are fine for LR varmints. Consider having your new barrel Melonite/Black Nitride treated. It'll make those high intensity, big volume powder burners last longer.... I have both 6mm and .224 varmint rifles. Here, in Western Oklahoma, the wind always blows so the 6mm is the one I usually turn to, depending upon predicted wind conditions.Running a faster twist and shooting the 105/108 class bullets?
I use my tactical 260 rem with 129 grain bullets and they performed well !As a follow up to the other thread I had posted I thought I'd throw another one out for everyone to help me out with. I'm planning to go Prairie dog hunting/shooting next summer. Same situation it'll be for my AI AT. If you could pick any S/A clambering you wanted for a long range P. dog hunt what would it be? My goal is not volume of dogs but some good solid long range shooting with the maximum distance being the goal and not the number of dogs killed necessarily. Minimal drop, minimal wind drift. I do handload so Wildcats are fine. I been thinking fast twist 22-250, 6 creed, 22-243. I'm drawn to those 80-90gr 22cal bullets for some reason. Also I dont care if I toast the barrel on this one trip so barrel life is not a concern. I want pure performance.
What do y'all think?
Not particularly my type of Prairie Dog shooting. I much PREFER the closer inside 200yd ranges in order to observe their blow-up performance from bullet strikes and maybe get to see the ''RED MIST''!!!..
Check on what equipment the 'Varmint Hunters Association' guys are using to get in the ''500, 1000, 1500, 2000, and even 2500 Yard Club''
Having tryed this with everything from BMG to 20PPC my favorite has been the 6-284 but it aint gonna fit a mag. So with your limits the 6cm would get my vote.
The big 22s can be fickel and getting conformation of the hit can be a problem. My 22-250 shooting the old amaxes did well to 750 yards but the hollowpoints will have them getting to the hole.
Weather contions will have more effect then round...mirage is worse than wind for me.
We usually try long shots in the morning or evening. Have a few fun guns for the time in between .
After some serious studying into this let me ask y'all a question. With any of these other calibers mentioned would I gain any significant performance difference over a plain old 243. I was looking at the dogtoen brass at midway. It is crazy cheap and there is always the old " can get ammo anywhere" argument.