Whats your favorite caliber?
08-15-2007, 02:23 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
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RE: Whats your favorite caliber?
ORIGINAL: ipscshooter
Like if a grizzly were after you say a 300 RUM? 
Just trying to fire you up a bit. 
Yep... That'd do the trick... (note that I was one of the guys arguing in favor of the RUM as a grizzly/brownie rifle).
ORIGINAL: robbcayman
If I was after something that might get really mad and eat me, I'd probably have to buy something larger than any of the current residents of my safe.
If I was after something that might get really mad and eat me, I'd probably have to buy something larger than any of the current residents of my safe.
Just trying to fire you up a bit.
08-15-2007, 03:22 PM
#12
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The stand out back!
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RE: Whats your favorite caliber?
My favorites are: .270 for Deer,Black Bear, Antelope, etc.,.338 for Elk, Moose, etc., .22-250 for varmints, and a .458 for critters that weigh over a ton and are closer than a 100 yds!
08-15-2007, 10:41 PM
#13
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The Republic of Texas
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RE: Whats your favorite caliber?
ORIGINAL: robbcayman
Yeah, I remember and I was on the other side. I did learn quite a bit from that discussion. You seem like a good guy I was hoping you would go off on how the 300 RUM took out a blue whale or something J/K with ya.
Yeah, I remember and I was on the other side. I did learn quite a bit from that discussion. You seem like a good guy I was hoping you would go off on how the 300 RUM took out a blue whale or something J/K with ya.
08-16-2007, 05:25 AM
#15
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 15
RE: Whats your favorite caliber?
30-06 -Old Reliable, takes care of elk at 500 yds and not to much bullet for deer. With different grains and designs you can find a lot of wiggle room in the 06 family of ammunition based on what you are doing
08-16-2007, 05:59 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: WY
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RE: Whats your favorite caliber?
If I could have just one: .30-06
But I can't have just one, so...
Plinking: .22LR
LR Target Shooting: .308
Varmints: .22-250
Varmints up to Deer/Antelope: .243
Deer in heavy brush: .44 Rem Mag
Deer to Elk: .30-06
Elk to Moose: .300 Wby
Angry Creatures (and occasionally elk): .375 H&H
Former Regime Loyalists/al Qaeda in Iraq: .223 or .308 (not 9mm)
But I can't have just one, so...
Plinking: .22LR
LR Target Shooting: .308
Varmints: .22-250
Varmints up to Deer/Antelope: .243
Deer in heavy brush: .44 Rem Mag
Deer to Elk: .30-06
Elk to Moose: .300 Wby
Angry Creatures (and occasionally elk): .375 H&H
Former Regime Loyalists/al Qaeda in Iraq: .223 or .308 (not 9mm)
08-16-2007, 07:25 AM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Posts: 1,184
RE: Whats your favorite caliber?
ORIGINAL: ipscshooter
You know... they say that it was a giant asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs... I think it was the .300 RUM.
ORIGINAL: robbcayman
Yeah, I remember and I was on the other side. I did learn quite a bit from that discussion. You seem like a good guy I was hoping you would go off on how the 300 RUM took out a blue whale or something J/K with ya.
Yeah, I remember and I was on the other side. I did learn quite a bit from that discussion. You seem like a good guy I was hoping you would go off on how the 300 RUM took out a blue whale or something J/K with ya.
08-16-2007, 07:50 AM
#18
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Canada
Posts: 59
RE: Whats your favorite caliber?
270 Winchester, i have used this caliber for 13 years and have never needed anything bigger for everything up to and including canada moose! I am only now experimenting with a 300WSM just to change it up and already it has accounted for one doe, one bull elk and one bul moose, not a bad start.