Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Let's see your walking varmiters

Here are Two

1958 Marlin/Sako Varmit King 222 Reminton with a Leupold m8 6x .This ones a rare bird.




and my go too all the time a T/C Venture .204 Ruger with a Leupold VX3 3.5-10 an absoulute consistent tack driver. I think these are totally overlooked gems of a rifle.

First is a Winchester model 1894 in 32-40, second is a Colt Lightning large frame 40-60-260...

Nice.

Colt Lightning 45 Colt and Winchester low wall 22 long...

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I feel sorry for you folks being so badly under gunned for those man eating squirrels. You need a 458 Lott minimum to stop a full charge. Maybe a 45-70 loaded to max pressure with solids? Anyway, use the utmost care when taking on those dangerous animals.

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I have a few I look forward to spending time afield with once we get moved down to Idaho. Our Alaska adventure is drawing to a close and we'll be moving as soon as the house sells.

Here's a few walking varmint rifles that should be great for Idaho.

Left handed mini Mauser in 6x222. It currently wears a Leupold M8 7.5x.



A Browning 53 32-20.



A Browning 65 218 Bee.



For those times you need to get your mountain man on, a left handed flint 32 caliber.



Of course there's a lot good about spending time afield with a classic single shot 22, especially if it belonged to your Dad and you learned to shoot with it 50 years ago.

I slum with a Howa Mini and a Featherweight both in 223......

.221 Fireball





.25-20

mart,

some really nice, interesting rigs pictured.

i note in your post you're leaving Alaska. if retiring from your career, congrats are in order.

what was it that caused you to select Idaho as your final stop?

I lived in eastern Washington for 21 years prior to moving to Alaska. Left because of the political environment and won’t return to Washington to live for the same reason. Always liked Idaho. My wife doesn’t do Alaska winters very well anymore. My mom is also nearby in eastern Washington. We’ll buy property with enough acreage for her to have a small double wide and she can sell her big house which is getting to be too much for her. To me Idaho offered the chance to be back in the northwest with less winter to contend with, good hunting and fishing, and Etta has family in Idaho. Alaska has been a great adventure but I need to considering what’s best for my wife and my Mom. I have to admit I’m looking forward to more bird hunting and coyote calling.

I’ll continue to commute to the slope for my job for a few years yet. I can do that from Idaho with my two week on/two week off schedule.

I put this .22 Hornet together with varmints in mind but haven't used it on one yet. Not many varmints besides the occasional woodchuck around here.

in my best Chief Dan George voice, "Boy, you boys sure like to walk with your varminters in your hands. Don't anyone use slings no more?".........

And does anyone but Shrap actually have a pic of therir varminters with a , uhh, varmint?


Boy, you boys have some nice stumps, patio tables, rocks, dirt and stoves, tho.....

I've got several, but if weight is a concern, I like this one a lot.

Is this enough varmints for you. The rifle, though hard to see is my old Ruger 220 Swift, wearing a sling by the way, accounted for about 20% of these varmints. It was my only varmint rifle at the time so it did a lot of walking.

mart wins.....

I've got a Ruger Predator 223 with a 10X Bushnell for walking around and splashing goph's.

Mart,

Where in ID?

I live in the TriCities, WA and am thinking of moving to ID for the same political reasons.

David,

We're looking at small communities in the Orofino and Saint Maries areas. We're listing our house next week when I get home from the oilfield. We'll be down there the last week of July and first week of August to look at homes. I love Alaska but it's getting hard on Etta. She has had both rotator cuff surgery and a ten level spinal fusion, complete with matching titanium rods, in the last three years and the long, dark, cold months wear on her. Add some SAD on top of it and winter up here ain't much fun for her. She'll be closer to what remains of her family and we'll be closer to my mom to help her in her twilight years. She'll be 81 this year.

Mart

I have one of the laminated stock 221’s too and it may be my most accurate rifle. I think I’ve read somewhere that there were only 200 made but Remington won’t confirm that.

Mart,

I lived in Fairbanks for three years and Eagle River for three, and work for an Alaska Native Corp based in Kodiak. I get the need to move south.

In Las Vegas as I type this. Rode across 84 to Twin Falls then down 93. I think Twin Falls is worth a look if I flush WA.

But, my three kids live in WA, two near Seattle and one in Kennewick, so maybe western ID, Lewiston?, is the right location.