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| quote: Originally posted by vines:
If all you do is reload. What would be your cartridge choice for deer size game only.
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| | | Posts: 10226 | Location: Temple City CA | Registered: 29 April 2003 | 
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| Last winter I built two rifles, one a multi-purpose 260 Rem and the other a 7X57 built expressedly with deer hunitng in mind. As it turned out, I had issues sighting in the scope on the 7X57 last month and ended up using the 260 for deer. Wow!! What a fabulous deer round that 260 is! It shot right up among the top of my list for favorite deer rounds. Flat shooting, accurate, easy to load for. I think of it as the 308 version of the 270 Win.
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| quote: Posted 01 November 2012 14:01Hide Post
Last winter I built two rifles, one a multi-purpose 260 Rem and the other a 7X57 built expressedly with deer hunitng in mind. As it turned out, I had issues sighting in the scope on the 7X57 last month and ended up using the 260 for deer. Wow!! What a fabulous deer round that 260 is!
Yea, This is my go to round for white tail deer, The .260 rem. with 120s. Dropped'um in there tracks at 312yrd. my grand son 12 has it right now. Im using my 7MM-08
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| | | Posts: 1137 | Location: SouthCarolina | Registered: 07 July 2004 |
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| Woods hunting, most shots under 100 yrds, my Marlin lever in .357 mag. Hunting from a climbing stand around fields, 6.5x55. Just because I am in the mood, the 35 whelen with 200 grain cast. Some might think the .357mag is too small, well, someone forgot to tell the two Indiana deer, both under 50 yards. |
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| | | Posts: 3865 | Location: Cheyenne, WYOMING, USA | Registered: 13 June 2000 |
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| quote: Originally posted by whelenite:
270 WSM. Great trajectory with no recoil. My load shoots the 140 Hornady BTSP @ 3175 fps into nickel sized groups at 100 yds. A virtual no-brainer out to 300.
We met a guy from Utah this year who was shooting a rifle using the 270 WSM case with 6mm bullets. Shades of 6mm-284...
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270 WSM. Great trajectory with no recoil. My load shoots the 140 Hornady BTSP @ 3175 fps into nickel sized groups at 100 yds. A virtual no-brainer out to 300.
my 7MM-08 will do that too with 140 gr at 2880 fps with less recoil.. the queston was not what you have now.. but if you bought a new one today what would it be.. i have a .260 rem. and 7-08 rem. my next one will be a 257 roberts. |
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| I've done almost all my deer hunting for the past 40 or 45 years with a 7x57. It has been as near to perfect as one rifle could be. I already have 7mm and 300 mags, so the long range rifle is covered. But if I was going to buy an additional deer only rifle it would be a 338/06 or a 35 Whelan. I like copious blood trails, and short ones too and IMHO would be better for hogs and black bears.
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| quote: Originally posted by whelenite:
270 WSM. Great trajectory with no recoil. My load shoots the 140 Hornady BTSP @ 3175 fps into nickel sized groups at 100 yds. A virtual no-brainer out to 300.
Plus one, and as a matter of fact, I just bought a new Winchester Ultimate Shadow so chambered right before I left for Montana. My old Super Shadow .270WSM worked fine there on a nice 4x5 whitetail. I am still waiting for my new Leupold VX-2 scope to arrive, so I haven't fired my new one yet.
Bullets are pretty worthless. All they do is hang around waiting to get loaded.
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| | | Posts: 515 | Location: kennewick, wa | Registered: 18 May 2004 |
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| 280 Remington. And ONLY because it has more "certainty" of heavier weight component bullets being available than does the excellent 270 Winchester.
I don't like boat tail bullets in cup and core...its a recipe for shed cores.
But look the facts! Speer's 150 grain Hot Cor .277" bullet...DROPPED FROM PRODUCTION. And I'm too miserley to regularly buy Nosler's 150 grain Partition (Have 2x boxes "regular" NP and "gold" NP). And Hornady's 150 grain has the cannelure all in the wrong place to far forward.
Whereas in my 280 Remington I can pick up cartons of 160 grain bullets from near bout EVERY maker...even in lower price cup and core brands. |
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| | | Posts: 4893 | Location: Bryan, Texas | Registered: 12 January 2005 |
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| For my neck of the woods (<100yds)- a 12ga Paradox For more open terrain - 7x64/7x65R If I was buying a rifle that was virtually a reloading only proposition, including case forming - 375NE 2-1/2" (but I'm glad I don't have to do this)
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