ORIGINAL: FF/EMT
I am in the market for a new rifle. I not very saavy when it comes to which calibre is the best for an all around big game gun. I live in a shotgun only area for deer so the only real experience with rifles i have is with my .223's and .22-250 for predator hunting.
Which calibre would you guys recomend for anything from Whitetails to elk, The only limit to shooting distance will be my comfort level with the rifle.
Thanks for any input
Tom
Read this:
http://www.chuckhawks.com/caliber_worship.htm
I like the part near the end where he states,
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"What we are left with at present is the spectacularly boring concept of adequacy. It is has been said in different ways over and over again over the last 100 years, and proven for at least that long as well on the game fields, that the entire genre of .270 Winchester, .30-06 Springfield, .308 and variants, and the 7mm Rem. Mag. all do pretty much the same thing. The difference is more our own ability to accurately place a shot based our familiarity with rifle, cartridge, trajectory, our own self-control, and our attention to proper bullet selection for specific game size, toughness, and impact velocity.
There are very few recorded instances out of tens of millions of examples where an appropriate bullet with proper shot placement from anything in the .308 to 7mm Rem. Mag. genre has failed to do its job on anything with hooves."
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Good Luck,
FC