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Old 11-06-2018, 07:31 PM
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I started varmint hunting actually with a 22 RF, as that’s what I had as a kid. Then got a 25-06 deer rifle and shot some PDs with it. But my first real varmint rifle was a Rem 700 22-250. Shot lots of coyotes and PDs with that cartridge.
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Old 11-06-2018, 09:13 PM
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My first CF varmint rifle was a M70 HVSS in 223. Got that specifically because it had 1:9 twist rather than a M700 PSS. Have other rifles in 221FB and 223, but still don't have a Deuce.
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Old 11-07-2018, 12:45 AM
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Like most people, I started with a .22 because I hadn't yet "graduated" to a hi powered rifle. It was a Remington 513T. Very accurate but a little heavy. And yes a few years later my Dad trusted me with his pride and joy. A Remington 725 in .222 with a 2.5 x 8 Bausch & Lomb. Killed many critters with that gun.
My brother owns it now and when he joins us PD hunting it's fun to see that old timer in action.

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Old 11-07-2018, 02:40 AM
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Like most I started with a .22. Back about 1954.
Don't recall which I shot my first pdog with
Didn't take long to discover they DON'T crawl off when hit with an '06.
Never did like hurting things just because I could. Didn't like crawl off p.dogs
either. So most of my p/doggin was with the '06.

Don't know whether I've ever fired a .222 even yet. Had a .222mag once I got out of the Army. Sure busted a bunch of 'em with that.
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Old 11-07-2018, 06:30 PM
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oh wow!!! back then i used a 22lr. then i was upgraded to a new(1984 or 85) savage pump 20 ga(i hated that gun). then my grandpap bought me a 2nd hand win 94 (1973) in 30-30. they killed groundhawgs!!!!

when i was 20, i bought a savage m340 in 222 rem. it was 2nd or 3rd or 4th...hand but it could shoot!!!!!! i put on a swift 6x and i loaded up some 50gr hornady sp(i can't remember the powder, h322?) . i had her for about 3 or 4 years till the accuracy was gone. i shot her about 7000-8000 times. the rifling was gone or about close to it. then in my "wisdom" i sold her and i got rem 700adl in 243. i should have rebarreled her and put a 10x scope on her.


i still have the cases and dies but i don't have the rifle. the 20vt has gotten rid of my varmint rifles(i still have my 223 in savage m12, my dad and son's like it).
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Old 11-08-2018, 12:01 AM
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Like some previous posters my first varmint rifle was a 22 LR. In my case it was a Mossberg 142A and it was responsible for many 1000's of ground squirrels going to their demise. I got it for my 10th birthday in 1949, I passed it on to my son a few years ago and now he and my grandson are still working on thinning out the ground squirrel population with it.

My first centerfire varmint rifle was a Remington Mohawk 600 chambered in 222 Remington. It was by far one of the most accurate factory rifles I have ever owned. It too was responsible for the downfall of literally truckloads of PD's and ground squirrels. At the time I purchased it they were $99 and I put a Bushnell Banner 3-9 scope on it for a total of less than $150.00 for rifle and scope.

In my part of the world they used to have "meat shoots" in the fall, they were limited to stock factory rifles with scopes of no more than 9 power, I won so many shoots with that rifle that it was hard to get anyone to enter the shoot when i showed up with that rifle.

As anside - when they Mohawk 600's were dropped they were on sale for $69, I wish I had bought a bunch of them but realistically $69 at that time was a lot of money in my world.

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Old 11-08-2018, 04:03 AM
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Don't know about first varmint rifle, my first centerfire was a Sako vixen .222, 1970 vintage, hundreds off deer, thousands of goats, rabbits and hares, with a few pigs, chamious, dogs, sheep, as well, have befallen that little rifle, I've still got it, and take it out every now and then,
The original Weaver K4 steel, still sits atop of a battered old rifle now, great we rifle, many fond memory's
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Old 11-08-2018, 04:15 AM
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uhm, something like this, 1975 vintage new and unfired.
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Old 11-08-2018, 03:52 PM
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Paid $200 for a used (likely stolen!) VS BDL 222 and Lyman AA 8x in 1978 or 9. First varmint rifle, though I had hunted with a 22 and 308 for chucks before that. Kept it until I got the long range bug in 1992. Sold it for a VS in 22-250, then sold it for a 40XB in 22-250.

Built a 722 into a 40XB clone in 222 about 9 years ago. Love it. It has become my daughters rifle.
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Old 11-08-2018, 10:32 PM
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Sako 222 for me. Hunted squirrels and deer, but never actually killed a deer with it. Had a 2.5-4x scope on it, and the way you changed power was you unscrewed what looked like a second elevation cover and adjusted it there.
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