For years I have been trying to find the best all around rifle-scope-cartridge combo for me and the area's I hunt in.I live in northern California up close to the Oregan border and can get some long shots in the high desert area's or some 100 yards or less in heavly wooded area closer to the coast.I recently bought a Ruger #1 in 300 H&H with a 26 inch barrel and this rifle shoots every thing well.The scope I decided on was a leupold vrxIII 6x.I swear I have had a lot of 30/06 that have more recoil than this rifle.The load I use for the wooded areas is a sierra 220 gr. bullet at about 2400 fps.I have used this load before and a deer don't go far if hit right.I also have about 100 rounds of factory ammo -winchester 180 gr silver tips that shoot less than a inch at a 100 yards and IMO recoil is light.For my longer shots I'm going to use a barnes 168 gr.bullet with a full charge of IMR-4350.All this IMO of course.

I'm a big fan of the 180 to 200 grain bullets in the .300 H&H....

The old .30-06 will shoot the lighter bullets quite well but the real advantage of any .30 cal magnum is to push the heavy bullets.....The 180 and 200 will do the job as well as any 220 grain round nose and with flatter trajectory to boot

You have chosen well. The H&H will kill, cleanly, anything on this continent, and anything but the Big(gest) Three in Africa.

Congratulations,

Rich
DRSS

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
You have chosen well. The H&H will kill, cleanly, anything on this continent, and anything but the Big(gest) Three in Africa.

Congratulations,

Rich
DRSS

Put the right bullets in it and It'll do that too!

Yes, but they (the evil and ever present "they") won't let me...

Rich

I recently say a pre 64 m70 with an original 26" barrel. i measured the muzzle diameter and it was .573.

This rifle was dreamlike in its handling.

and it was 300 H&H