need advice on caliber
02-19-2007 | 07:32 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
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RE: need advice on caliber
ORIGINAL: Rebel Hog
If you're looking for flat shooting and enough power to kill up toMoose, go with 6.5mmSwede with Norma "Alaska" 156gr ammo!
Nuff Said!
If you're looking for flat shooting and enough power to kill up toMoose, go with 6.5mmSwede with Norma "Alaska" 156gr ammo!
Nuff Said!
02-19-2007 | 09:23 PM
#23
Boone & Crockett
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From: The Republic of Texas
RE: need advice on caliber
ORIGINAL: klu408
I was talking about the .308 win. Is there a better load than my 2 choices? I just like the knockdown power of the .300 win but want the least amount of bullet drop. Tnaks guys for all the replies!!!
I was talking about the .308 win. Is there a better load than my 2 choices? I just like the knockdown power of the .300 win but want the least amount of bullet drop. Tnaks guys for all the replies!!!
If you don't have any, or don't have much, experience, I'd really have a hard time recommending a Magnum for your purposes and I'd question your suggestion that you're planning on 300 yard + shots. Generally speaking magnums aren't a good choice for someone who doesn't have some shooting experience under his belt. Likewise for long shots. Those are for someone who has had a lot of experience/practice. And, practice is going to be a lot easier and a lot more fun with a .308 than with a .300 Win Mag. And, out to about 350 or 400 yards, a .308 is going to kill deer just as efficiently as a .300 WM.
02-19-2007 | 10:52 PM
#24
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RE: need advice on caliber
Wanna be men pick the largest caliber. Real men choose a gun that gets the job done with less damage. To hunt deer with anything larger than a7mm tells me someone has an ego problem. 6mm up to7mm is more than enough gun to drop a deer. Unless you can't hit where you are aiming.Then no gun is ever big enough. 300 = waiste of money and shows you got an ego problem by bragging I got a 300. I can do what a 300 does with my 280 if not better. It's because I mastered it and know what I can make it do. Really think about it. What is a 300 goanna do better than a smaller caliber. Nothing in the right hands.
02-19-2007 | 11:06 PM
#25
Dominant Buck
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From: WC FL
RE: need advice on caliber
ORIGINAL: ipscshooter
Based on your initial question about .308 and .300WM, and which has more power and is flatter shooting, I suspect that you don't have a lot of experience with rifles. Do you have any experience at all? What rifles do you currently own?
If you don't have any, or don't have much, experience, I'd really have a hard time recommending a Magnum for your purposes and I'd question your suggestion that you're planning on 300 yard + shots. Generally speaking magnums aren't a good choice for someone who doesn't have some shooting experience under his belt. Likewise for long shots. Those are for someone who has had a lot of experience/practice. And, practice is going to be a lot easier and a lot more fun with a .308 than with a .300 Win Mag. And, out to about 350 or 400 yards, a .308 is going to kill deer just as efficiently as a .300 WM.
ORIGINAL: klu408
I was talking about the .308 win. Is there a better load than my 2 choices? I just like the knockdown power of the .300 win but want the least amount of bullet drop. Tnaks guys for all the replies!!!
I was talking about the .308 win. Is there a better load than my 2 choices? I just like the knockdown power of the .300 win but want the least amount of bullet drop. Tnaks guys for all the replies!!!
If you don't have any, or don't have much, experience, I'd really have a hard time recommending a Magnum for your purposes and I'd question your suggestion that you're planning on 300 yard + shots. Generally speaking magnums aren't a good choice for someone who doesn't have some shooting experience under his belt. Likewise for long shots. Those are for someone who has had a lot of experience/practice. And, practice is going to be a lot easier and a lot more fun with a .308 than with a .300 Win Mag. And, out to about 350 or 400 yards, a .308 is going to kill deer just as efficiently as a .300 WM.
02-20-2007 | 07:27 AM
#26
Giant Nontypical
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From: Texas - BUT NOW in Madison County, NY
RE: need advice on caliber
Looking for the most speed & power in a .30 caliber? Try the .300/.378 Weatherby.........
In three years of traipsing through the wilderness of Alaska carrying a .270 Winchester carbine, all the "hunting experts" I came across said "why are you carrying that varmint rifle??"
Whenever I killed a bear, caribou or moose with it, they all would say "well, a bear (moose, etc.) is nothing but a VARMINT!!"
In three years of traipsing through the wilderness of Alaska carrying a .270 Winchester carbine, all the "hunting experts" I came across said "why are you carrying that varmint rifle??"
Whenever I killed a bear, caribou or moose with it, they all would say "well, a bear (moose, etc.) is nothing but a VARMINT!!"
02-20-2007 | 05:36 PM
#27
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RE: need advice on caliber
I don't want to repeat what everyone here has already said, but... You really don't need a 300WM for deer. The 308 will work really well. As a matter of fact, you don't need a 308 to knock down a deer.I like em though so that is my choice.
02-21-2007 | 02:11 PM
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RE: need advice on caliber
308 or 300 win mag.......Jesus they must be some pretty big deer. The 308 is one of those calibers where you say how does it work...huge bullet in a medium casing, whats funny is it has very promising down range characteristics...if you ever reload...that bullet has quite a few sweet spots. The magnum has a pretty good advantge in some ways, its an extremely fast shooter for its size category and its flight character cant really be rivaled but by a few calibers. You really dont need that much to kill a white tail......anything above a 7mm in my opinion is a compensation of power vs skill. Hell I seen a guy take out a monster 10 pointer @270 yrds full tilt with a 220 swift, but what do I know i'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut