My first choice would be a savage varmint gun, 26 heavy barrel wood stock and of course the best varmint caliber 22-250. Now scope wise would be a different matter tasco has a good scope thats under 150 dollars for benchrest and varmint shooting its a high power and clarity scope which would do u real good. Now lastly you would need a good bi pod id suggest harris or shooters ridge id go for the shortest bi pod they make. i have a shooters ridge but its just to darn tall for me laying down and too short sitting down so the lower the better for laying down wich is mostly what you would be doing varmint hunting anyway.