What's your cartridge/gun for your Hunting priorities
It's always good discussion ...
So the game to include are these big game animals 1--- deer 2--- black bear 3--- sheep 4--- moose 5--- elk What makes you choose your cartridge ? Does your number 1 choice of game to hunt dictate the rest or do you have multiple guns for the list .. For me I have mostly switched to the 300 WSM because my order of these are 1--- elk 2----black bear 3---- moose 4 --- deer 5---- sheep , probably no more |
My go to rifle never changes , Ruger single shot in .303
If I choose a different rifle it is only because I want to hunt with that particular rifle , not because I am after a different animal Cat |
280AI for all. 7mm Rem Mag performance without the muzzle blast and recoil. I just have different loadings as to what animal I am chasing.
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Mo go to big game rifle is a custom bolt action in 7mmstw. Although I have tried other cartridges, that has been my go to combination for over 25 years
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Since 1995,
One Gun; Ruger One Caliber; 30.06 One Bullet; hand loaded hornady 165 grain BTSP; Over 50 big game animals taken, from antelope right up to bison; most were one shot kills. Before that, 1979-1994 One Gun; Winchester Model 70 One Caliber; 308 Two bullets, hand loaded hornady 150 or 165 grain BTSP, settled on 150 near the end; Just under 50 big game animals taken, from antelope right up to Moose; most were one shot kills. I know, boring, lol. |
I'm not a sheep hunter but for the rest is a 35 whelen, semi custom in Winchester m70 featherweight.
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Ruger M77 Hawkeye in 6.5 Creedmoor, sheep is the only priority until the knees wear out.
If I am lucky enough to pull a spring grizzly license the 300 ultra comes out, if only..... |
I finally settled on the.338-06 as the one cartridge that covers all my Big Game hunting requirements.
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I have sold the majority of my center fire big game rifles and aside from my trusty .303 which wont be getting sold I have a custom .30-06 with a rail mounted so I can swap scopes which are sighted in for different loads. Leave my 2.5-8 VX3 sighted in with my hunting loads and my 6.5-20X50 is sighted in for my target loads/coyote control, works pretty good for me thus far.
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Currently shooting a 30-06, mainly cause I'm a ***** and not a fan of magnum recoil.It has taken Moose, Bear and Deer all with one shot. As the old timers will say placement over cartridge all day long. That being said rechambering the '06 into a 338-06 is in the plans just for ****s and giggles.
Been looking into a lightweight 270 for the wife's sheep gun although her 308 would likely work, it is a bit heavy and makes a great excuse to add another rifle to the safe :sHa_shakeshout: |
6-284...fast, flat, very little recoil, extremely accurate, new bullet designs have made this little one deadly.:)
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I'm a new hunter, so my Ruger American in 270 seems to have given me good bang for my buck for what my priorities are.
Jut bought a Marlin 1895 SBL off of a friend though - that should take care of my unnecessary 'need' to have a thumper in my arsenal haha |
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7mm Rem. Mag with 160gr Nosler Partition handloads, lots of other guns in the safe, but when I'm going hunting it seems the Ruger comes out, used it for everything from Antelope to Moose, Elk, Sheep etc. hasn't let me down over many years..
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.270 Win for me. it was my first gun and now I've gone to a Vanguard instead of a Savage, but stuck with the same caliber. I own other guns, but the .270 win is my main hunting rig. I have often debated going to 30-06 for greater bullet variety in a similar cartridge, but for some reason the charm of the 270 has stuck for me.
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Remington 700 in 30-06 is my go to Gun
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Eight of the last 10 BG critters have all been with my custom # 1 in 275 Rigby (7x57). From moose sized down to sheep sized. And a few coyotes thrown in for good measure :) The other two were with a .308. I have any number to choose from but the .275 is my first choice. Unless its grizzly bear country...then usually I pack something a little Bigger.
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I have several rifles, all Sako Finnbears L61Rs, in 300H&H, 300 Win Mag, 338 and 375. Have never shot the last three, just bought them because I like them. I sold two 300 Weatherbys.
I only hunt moose now days and just keep going back to the 300 H&H. I can change bullet weights if I want to hunt something else. It will take care of a bear if one bothers me out there. It doesn't damage as much meat as the larger cartridges and shoots flatter if I need to reach out there. Bill |
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You must be a juggler, what with in deer season those $130 silky pale "prarie coyotes" running around. I guess with a 30-06 you don't skin them... in the normal sense, that is. |
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Cartridge/Rifle
Ross Seyfreid who has pretty good credentials wrote a very interesting article on the ideal hunting cartridge.
If you want to read it google " Busting the magnum myth, choosing your ideal hunting cartridge by Ross Seyfried. Let us know if you agree. |
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