What caliber you using this year?

[Jakes1991]

The past couple years I’ve been using a .17 wsm. Shot placement matters but it’s awesome for minimal fur damage

 

[Billymeff]

Great thread, looking to get into more varmint hunting myself and trying to narrow down set up between 204, 17, 223, or 22-250 myself


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[Plainsman-147]

Been running .223 bolt gun with 65gr Sierra SBTs. Sometimes I wonder if I’d have less spinners if I stepped up to a 6mm bullet, but the real problem is just me needing to take more accurate shots

 

[Grainraiser]

The past couple years I’ve been using a .17 wsm. Shot placement matters but it’s awesome for minimal fur damage

I've been wanting to shoot one with my 17wsm but so far I have not crossed with one. I use my 17wsm for coons mostly.

 

[Pilarczyk85]

Just bought a tikka t3x 223 16" barrel. Put a 4x12 on it. Looking to upgrade the stock hopefully and not break the bank. Kinda new to the whole varmint hunting side of things. Just also bought a few different ammo types to see what she likes. Will 55 grain stabilize pretty good out of a 16" barrel? It has a 1:8 twist

 

[TxLite]

Just bought a tikka t3x 223 16" barrel. Put a 4x12 on it. Looking to upgrade the stock hopefully and not break the bank. Kinda new to the whole varmint hunting side of things. Just also bought a few different ammo types to see what she likes. Will 55 grain stabilize pretty good out of a 16" barrel? It has a 1:8 twist

My 16” shoots 77gr and 55gr just fine

 

[peterk123]

Just bought a tikka t3x 223 16" barrel. Put a 4x12 on it. Looking to upgrade the stock hopefully and not break the bank. Kinda new to the whole varmint hunting side of things. Just also bought a few different ammo types to see what she likes. Will 55 grain stabilize pretty good out of a 16" barrel? It has a 1:8 twist

I just picked one up in a 20 inch barrel. Added a salmon river pic/arca rail, a kydex adjustable cheek riser and a pic rail so I can swap between thermal and regular scope. Cheap upgrade for a fully custom stock

I have been playing around with a 53 grain vmax bullet. Found that 25.5 grains of varget gives me great groups. Hitting a 3 inch dot every single time at 200 yards. Hitting a 10 inch gong at 520 yards a long as I get the wind right. I'm very happy with those results. It's not the fastest, a bit over 2,900 fps, but it will get the job done.

Very long winded way of saying, yup, you will be fine with 55 grains. Especially if you reload.