your rifle of choice for deer? if legal obviously
10-24-2010, 01:51 PM
#31
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Colorado
Posts: 200
If I'm hunting just deer and nothing else, I use my .270 because it's my favorite of two centerfire rifles. If I'm hunting deer AND elk, I use the .30-06 because it has a tiny bit more stopping power than the .270 and elk is a large animal.
I do believe the .270 would fare fine against an elk; shot placement is everything. However, I also think that if I fail to do my part behind the rifle a little bit, but still hit, the "ought six" might make up for it a tiny bit.
I do believe the .270 would fare fine against an elk; shot placement is everything. However, I also think that if I fail to do my part behind the rifle a little bit, but still hit, the "ought six" might make up for it a tiny bit.
11-03-2010, 07:34 PM
#40
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
Custom built 7mm-338 with a Mauser 98 action, Jewell trigger, Shaw No. 2 Stainless barrell, glass bedded action and custom thumbhole stock with diamond in-lay in forearm. It took me 2 years to build and with my handloads of Hornady A-Max projectiles will lay down deer at distances I won't say on open forum. I just have the videos to back up what I say. If I am hunting in my home state of Il, I use a Knight Disc Extreme or my Magnum Research Ind. Lone Eagle in 44 Mag or my S & W .460.
Last edited by SecondChance; 11-06-2010 at 06:19 PM.