I don’t know anyone who goes hunting specifically for Badgers. That being said, it’s always in the back of my mind when I hit areas that are infested with Ground Squirrels. But I never leave the house in the morning after telling my wife, “Wife. I’m going Badger hunting!” I would probably find my reloading room covered in a nice padded rubber coating on my return. This was another one of those times. We were going out hunting for Ground Squirrel, but this time the Remington 591 made for a different result than normal! I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start from the beginning…
Last night I had decided that my wife, daughter and I were not going up to Tejon Ranch today.
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5mm Rimfire – Live Hunt Report – Bakersfield, CA
I got up at 4:00am this morning so I could get up ...
As many of you read and saw recently, I used my 23″ Thompson Contender Carbine for a couple of months on Ground Squirrels here in California and did a pretty thorough write-up. Although some of the squirrels I shot were pretty large, I was really looking for larger varmints to put the T/C and Centurion ammo to the test.
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I got up at 4:00am this morning so I could get up to an area that is legal to shoot the 5mm Rimfire at Ground Squirrels. Most shots were within 75 yards and I only missed twice! I was using the Centurion Varmint ammunition in my Remington Model 591. As you can tell by the pictures and the short video, the 5mm Rimfire does a good job knocking out varmints of all sizes. Some of the larger Ground Squirrels were almost torn in half!
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Here’s a hunt report from this past weekend’s Rabbit Hunt put-together by one of the guy’s on a California shooting board I frequent:
I headed out early to miss Los Angeles traffic and wanted to get to the hunting area with time to spare for sighting-in and hunting some Cottontail and Black-tail Jackrabbits. I was packing only rimfires, with two Remington 591′s and a Ruger 17HMR. I was eager to shoot some rabbits with the 5mm rimfire, because it had been a long-time since I had gone hunting for bigger varmints with the 5.
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As most of you know, a few of us 5mmForums members have purchased the Thompson Contender 23″ Carbine barrel in 5mm Remington Rimfire Magnum. I posted an initial report when I received mine back in January (click here for that story). I got a chance to hunt with the rifle a few times with the Centurion ammunition after I purchased it. But, I did not have any close places to hunt where lead ammunition was legal here in California. That made it very difficult to do a series of hunts to develop an informative hunt report. Beginning about a month ago, I was able to hunt with the 5mm Contender quite frequently. Even allowing me to get some video of how this rifle and ammo combination performs on ground squirrels.
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If you are a regular visitor to the rimfire forums available on the internet, then you have probably seen the posts asking about Remington’s 5mm Rimfire Magnum. Even now, 30+ years after the Remington 591 & 592 rifles were discontinued, folks are still fans of this caliber.
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The Centurion 5mm Remington Rimfire Magnum
“Do you know this cartridge?”
Such was the question that came up during a congenial dinner during the 2004 SHOT Show with our friends at Aguila Ammunition and Centurion Ordnance. Efrain Peralta, the Chief Engineer for Aguila Ammunition, then held out a note book to writer Tim Mancillas and I, depicting a perfectly hand drawn blueprint of the long discontinued 5mm Remington Rimfire Magnum cartridge.
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Fresh cool air, still moist from the thunderstorm yesterday flowed through the cab of my Explorer as I sat along side the county road in South Eastern Wyoming. Glassing the prairie through the 10x Bushnell binoculars showed a scene that I had been waiting for a number of years.
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