ORIGINAL: Folically Challenged
ORIGINAL: White-tail-deer
Here ar my choices:
.270 Win
.270 WSM
.280
7mm-08
7mmRem Mag
7mm Ultra Mag
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Thanks for all the responses! It is a black bear hunt to clarify. I was leaning to the 7mm-08 with a 140 grain partition. By the sounds of the reply's the consensus is the 7mm-08 may be a bit light. Your thoughts?
If your 7mm-08 offers follow-up shots (not a single shot) and you can keep a good sight picture between shots, go ahead & use that one. 140 grain NP's oughta get the job done with style, providing you can reliably put 'em where they need to go.
I dunno about that, on of the main reasons for missing animals was having a rapid action, with lots of shells in there, and when you have a fast, full of ammo gun, you never learn how to shoot, unless the gun recoils like heck.
He should geta bolt-action.
As for a 7mm-08, I was going to get one, but the lack of ammo availability made me decide to get a .308 instead. The .308 doesn't recoil bad at all, I personally have shot 180 grain .308 without any problems whatsoever, and those are the roundsmeant for elk, bear, moose, and hogs. I believe that 180-grain is the highest grain offered in factory ammo.
I saw no difference between 150-grain, and 180-grain as far as recoil was concerned. And that was out of my bolt-action.