AusVarmint

What do you guys consider to be the perfect fox whistling rifle?

Is it a magnum rimfire? Centrefire?

What barrel length?

What scope would you guys use?

Remembering that a lot of shots will be under 50m. but sometimes you have to stretch that out.

20 vartarg or 22 hornet with a weaver grand slam 4.5-14x40. 20-22 inch LV profile.
Just my two cents.

22 hornet, 18", 3-9x40 and Keith we've been over this...

Yep a 22 Hornet with a 3-9x which is a bit old school so to bring things up to date a 17 Hornady Hornet fitted with a 3.5-10 or as Chappo suggested a 20 Vartarg in a nice lightweight rifle fitted with a 4.5-14

Am hoping that the 20/222 getting put together for me will perform that function, Ive got a Khales 3 - 12 x 52 with side focus to go on top.

Camel wrote:Am hoping that the 20/222 getting put together for me will perform that function, Ive got a Khales 3 - 12 x 52 with side focus to go on top.

Nice!

Camel wrote:Am hoping that the 20/222 getting put together for me will perform that function, Ive got a Khales 3 - 12 x 52 with side focus to go on top.

got any pics of the cartridge?

I reckon the perfect rifle would be an AR15. Allows for plenty of follow ups. Or a custom 10/22 mag or 17hmr. I have a DVD called the Verminators Predator or Prey and the guy on there has a sweet little 10/22mag thumbhole with a short stubby barrel and camera hanging up above the scope to get footage with.

Now back in this country. Yeah something with a mild report and no recoil. Needs to be able to shoot 100m flat for the shots on foxes that dont come too close. A rimfire would be more than enough I think. The HMR is a 100m calibre and flat enough to do 150 if you know what your doing. Best of all they are deadly accurate so putting a shot into the think tank of a fox isnt a hard thing to do. Although it would be great if they did a 20gr ballistic tip load for a little more stopping power on larger critters.

For calling, set up a 6x fixed scope pistol grip or thumbhole stock with a 18 inch barrel would be sweet and very 'pointable' at an approaching fox or cat.

andrewk wrote:

Camel wrote:Am hoping that the 20/222 getting put together for me will perform that function, Ive got a Khales 3 - 12 x 52 with side focus to go on top.

got any pics of the cartridge?

sorry mate, not any taken so far, but its just a standard 222 necked down, nothing else is changed, no neck turn but I might give them a bit of a clean up.

Brad Y wrote:I reckon the perfect rifle would be an AR15. Allows for plenty of follow ups. Or a custom 10/22 mag or 17hmr. I have a DVD called the Verminators Predator or Prey and the guy on there has a sweet little 10/22mag thumbhole with a short stubby barrel and camera hanging up above the scope to get footage with.

Totally with you on that one

Brad Y wrote:Now back in this country. Yeah something with a mild report and no recoil. Needs to be able to shoot 100m flat for the shots on foxes that dont come too close. A rimfire would be more than enough I think. The HMR is a 100m calibre and flat enough to do 150 if you know what your doing. Best of all they are deadly accurate so putting a shot into the think tank of a fox isnt a hard thing to do. Although it would be great if they did a 20gr ballistic tip load for a little more stopping power on larger critters.

For calling, set up a 6x fixed scope pistol grip or thumbhole stock with a 18 inch barrel would be sweet and very 'pointable' at an approaching fox or cat.

uh oh.. here comes another HMR fight

Either one will do mate. I used to have a HMR (Actually 2) and sold them thinking they werent all that useful for what I wanted and that I could down load another rifle to suit. Wish I never sold the last one- a bolt action marlin in pepper laminate and stainless fluted barrel. It was a genuine 1/2MOA hummer. I thought it didnt have the oomph on foxes I needed when realistically every fox I shot with it died perfectly well.

A 22mag will do just as well in the right hands and Im toying with the idea of co licensing my dads old mossberg 22 mag and tricking it up a little.

.22LR, .22WMR, .17HMR, 17HH, .22Hornet, .17Rem or .222Rem/.223rem in a nice walkaround config.

As semi auto's are out a good lever in 22mag or 223 like the blr would be good. Short barrel, low power scope or good open sights. The fox shooting vids I have seen nearly always have a lever knocking foxes over, allows fast follow up on multiple targets. Other than that anything with the legs for the required shot when it comes to foxes

Ryan

no takers on the 204r ?

LoneRider wrote:no takers on the 204r ?

Yeh the 204 is good too.