AusVarmint

Aside from rifles and scopes what are the things you take with you when you go varminting.

If going down to a warren I'll take rifle, range finder, spotting scope and camera.

When spotlighting for varmints it looks more like this:
Rifle
Roof mountable Spotlight
Bipods or window rest
4wd
Usually leave the range finder and spotter at camp when I go spotlighting!

I always take my camera cause I'm bloody hopeless at remembering stuff. I can never recall which rifle exploded which animal.....

i dont really do much varmint hunting but with my young bloke being 6 months old i reckon ill get a bit done in the next few years. how old do you think a kid has to be to use the 224 wby? or should i just get him a 300wby

how old do you think a kid has to be to use the 224 wby? or should i just get him a 300wby

OMG!!! that poor kid!!! No only does he have you as his dad, but he's guna have his first wthby eyebrow at age 6........months!!!

What about a good knife.

flyer wrote:What about a good knife.

LoL Why do you need a knife? When you shoot a rabbit with a 55gn proj at 3300fps there is not much to gut and skin lol!

A decent sized swiss army knife will McGiver you out of most situations.

Flyer.

flyer wrote:A decent sized swiss army knife will McGiver you out of most situations.

Flyer.

Hehehe yeah its especially good against a charging bunny!

G'day All
If your out for a long session, a good feed and some nice hot coffee or soft drink is good, also a cleaning rod and kit if you plan on putting alot of shots down( clean when accuracy fades off.)
I Usually park on a hill and set up on the back with foam around the top of the head board off the 4wd and sit on a seat and shoot with a bi-pod over the roof of the truck, Its a very steady lean.
I find binoculars are better than spotting scopes as the magnification makes them hard to spot in a hurry.
A good trick is to turn your cases up/down in your shell boxes that way you can keep a count on your hits and misses.
Regards
Damien Webb.

the upside down thing with the cases is a top idea mate! I'll use that next time I'm out! Cheers for that tip!

hahaha....

thats an awesome idea with the cases!!! funny the little things that you can learn from people on here!!!

I don't get the upside down case thing? .

I always count my empties when I get back to camp, and that's how many critters I hit

MadMick wrote:I don't get the upside down case thing? .

I always count my empties when I get back to camp, and that's how many critters I hit

If only we all could be so perfect

Way to go Mick, When I sit over a warren I like to take a matt about 3'x6' it helps to keep the sand and shit out of your BI-Pod legs and other gear, and a rear sand bag as well as some tucker, coffee, binos and knife. I like to eat some of those bunnys so sometimes take an esky and ice paks.
Depending on how far the warren is, dictates which rifle I use.
50yds =.22
100yds=.17hmr
150yds=.223
200+yds=.22.250
only ever take two firearms per hunt.

As little as possibe - as it reduce my pleasure.

I mostly do walk around large fields for up to 6 hours at a time- so my gear needs are different than many deer hunters for example

I'd be interested if anybody does anything significantly different - especially anything really useful

So:
-Bumbag - good quality hunting one. I don't want a back pack
- Harris S class (tilting) bipod either 9-12inch or 13-23 depending on conditions - actually don't carry it as always attached to the rifle
- Bino's 10-26 steiner predators (a little ambivalent about them) but they don't cost the earth as I end up lying on them a lot and dragging them on the ground when crawling.
- 30-35 rounds of remmington accutip .223 50gr or a box of .22lr depending on what rifle I am carrying
- Water 350 ml or so. Which is just enough to get through the time on a hot day
- Plastic garbage bag to sit on + any emergency type needs
- Knife - because I like having one of two
- Mobile - just in case something happens but tends to ring at inopportune times. Fantastic to have coverage these days
- Headlight - energiser brand from bunnings with red and white leds in case I get back after dark
Laser range finder - Bushnell 1500. Carry it grudgingly but is too useful not to carry
- Camera
- Lighter - don't know why, occasionally carry cigarettes to justify it - but the cigarettes are usually stale[/list]
- Apple/chocolate