Best Caliber
09-22-2013, 06:54 PM
#11
Spike
Join Date: May 2013
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 2
After spending about 6 months or so of researching what to use on the pigs here in California I settled on a 30-06.
Another reason, besides those listed above, is ammo is easy to find. With these various panic buying episodes it seems there has always been some 30-06 on the shelves for me.
Another reason, besides those listed above, is ammo is easy to find. With these various panic buying episodes it seems there has always been some 30-06 on the shelves for me.
09-22-2013, 08:37 PM
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 172
To TheFiganator,
To be frank you need to find out more about guns and hunting.
Six hundred yards is very far to shoot at anything and then to want the rifle not to make a big hole in a deer labels you as a neophyte.
Your choice of a 700 means that you don't know much about hunting rifles yet.
How old are you?
To be frank you need to find out more about guns and hunting.
Six hundred yards is very far to shoot at anything and then to want the rifle not to make a big hole in a deer labels you as a neophyte.
Your choice of a 700 means that you don't know much about hunting rifles yet.
How old are you?
Last edited by Savage_99; 09-22-2013 at 08:39 PM.
09-22-2013, 09:46 PM
#13
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Wyoming
Posts: 49
This is my Remington 700 VTR .308 It shoots right at 1 MOA with reloads and a bench. O ya it kills the hell out of elk as well.
DanMorgan
Last edited by DanMorgan; 09-22-2013 at 11:28 PM.
09-23-2013, 12:14 PM
#14
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
Having seen quite a few elk at 500 to 600 yards I wouldn't dream of shooting at that range either.......with anything !!
Last edited by Bullcamp82834; 09-23-2013 at 02:42 PM.
09-23-2013, 06:47 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: WY
Posts: 2,056
I've HIT targets beyond 600 yards myself, but I'm not sure what I typically shoot really has enough poop left in it to bowl a bull elk over at 600 yards. More than that, it seems that however fabulous I think my mental notes, compass bearings, etc. were of where he was standing when I hit him, by the time I let him settle down a bit and cross whatever terrain's in-between us, the lighting conditions have changed and where I thought I knew he was standing - often isn't. And because I have this annoying tendency to be shooting mid-to-late-afternoon, darkness seems to fall twice as fast when I'm trying to find a wounded animal. And they always seem to go into the deeper, darker woods, making it all the more difficult to find and then haul them out.
I like DRT hits on elk, and the closer I am, it seems the more chance there is of that being the result.
In addition to offering better shooting conditions, there's nothing like a stalk that lands you smack in the middle of a herd of elk. Noisy, smelly, interesting critters. My first experience with that made me a forever believer in the cow call.
09-24-2013, 06:10 AM
#18
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
Absolutely. It's the hunt and the stalk that I'm there for.
I've had a pretty fair bit of training and practice as a swat sniper but I'm not Carlos Hathcock so shots at extreme range under field conditions are out.
Having equipment capable of 600 yard shots on game doesn't qualify you to take such shots anymore than owning an airplane makes you a pilot.
I've had a pretty fair bit of training and practice as a swat sniper but I'm not Carlos Hathcock so shots at extreme range under field conditions are out.
Having equipment capable of 600 yard shots on game doesn't qualify you to take such shots anymore than owning an airplane makes you a pilot.
09-24-2013, 12:34 PM
#20
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992