Enough Power??
05-20-2004 | 10:57 PM
#11
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From: Central WY
RE: Enough Power??
Well after thinking about it i have decided that what i might want to think about getting would be a 7mm RM i have heard nothing but positive comments about this cartridge and almost all manufacturers have a gun chambered in it. Thanks to everyone who input their opinion, the rest is up to me i geuss, now all i have to do is find a new rifle which is something i never mind doing
05-21-2004 | 07:19 AM
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RE: Enough Power??
If I was 30 yard away from an elk, and I knew I had to recover the animal, and I had my PSE Mahove with 120gr broadheads on one side and a 243 with 100gr barnes on the other side of me. I would definatly grab the 243.
I hear all the time about killing different ways, but I think people are complicating things and over thinking it. Your trying to cut off the blood supply with oxygen to the brain by turning it elsewhere, like on the ground. The easiest way to do this is one take out the brain itself. This is high risk. Two, by taking out the main pump, or the main collector of the crucial oxygen. A broadhead can't count on high velocity trama, so has to count on cutting surface area. But the problem is the more surface area, (bigger broadhead), less penetration. So you got to find a match to your game and right balance. Gun does the same thing but much easier. Probably 10X easier. Again, however picking out the right velocity with the right mass to achieve a finite penetration. What are you trying to achieve? Your trying to cut off oxygen, in the blood from reaching the brain. But now, your chances are much better and you task so much easier. You can cause much more trama to other vital organs causing much more loss of blood to the brain.
I hear all the time about killing different ways, but I think people are complicating things and over thinking it. Your trying to cut off the blood supply with oxygen to the brain by turning it elsewhere, like on the ground. The easiest way to do this is one take out the brain itself. This is high risk. Two, by taking out the main pump, or the main collector of the crucial oxygen. A broadhead can't count on high velocity trama, so has to count on cutting surface area. But the problem is the more surface area, (bigger broadhead), less penetration. So you got to find a match to your game and right balance. Gun does the same thing but much easier. Probably 10X easier. Again, however picking out the right velocity with the right mass to achieve a finite penetration. What are you trying to achieve? Your trying to cut off oxygen, in the blood from reaching the brain. But now, your chances are much better and you task so much easier. You can cause much more trama to other vital organs causing much more loss of blood to the brain.
05-21-2004 | 03:01 PM
#13
Giant Nontypical
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From: Texas - BUT NOW in Madison County, NY
RE: Enough Power??
My daughter-in-law used to kill her elk every fall with her .243. She shot them in either the ear or the eye! She has now quit using a firearm, however, and now only kills her elk every fall with her bow - a 55-pounder. She thinks guns are for "tenderfoots", as she calls us gun-huners!
05-22-2004 | 05:55 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Michigan
RE: Enough Power??
It can work, but it is obviously not the best choice. You might get a 338 and then you'd have pleanty of reasont to buy several more guns with calibers in between you 243 and your 338...just so you are well served!
But if you are just a little unsure of your 243 and want to keep your choices for a new elk rifle in the "low recoil" area consider a 7 X 57 or a 7mm/08
But if you are just a little unsure of your 243 and want to keep your choices for a new elk rifle in the "low recoil" area consider a 7 X 57 or a 7mm/08
