If you are bighorn sheep hunting, where shots will be 300-500 yards, that extra velocity will be helpful.

Actually, .270 is a very popular sheep caliber, and a lot of people like magnums like the 7mm or 300 for their added range.

Sheep are so expensive that it is often once in a lifetime, and nothing can be left to chance.

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Originally posted by Danny Pay:
Hi
According to balistic tables high energy ,257 roberts have nearly similar proformance as 2506 and my question is if it could be used for sheep and goat hunting with 115 gr loads?
BR
Danny

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If these are your options take the one you are most comfortable and accurate with! I would not hesitate to hunt sheep or goat or deer etc. with either of these fine cartridges.

Good Luck!!!

where do you hunt (plenty of) mufflon in Sweden? I thought that they only existed in fenced in areas and a few escapees on the islands on the west coast?

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Be content with what you have but never with who you are.

Danny have you released some sheep and billys in the mountain ranges in the north Sweden?

I think that we should re new Swedens wild life with game like goat, Ovis dali dali, big horn sheep, caribou, Big Bears. Pronghorns would be nice too.

Not som very far form were i live there have been a lot of mufflons escaping from an island close to the coast.

I see them quite often when I hunt. I haven't shoot any since I hope they breed good and spread across the country.

I would go for a 270 win as minimum a fast 7mm or 30 cal is even better. A bily can weigh around 135 kilos.

For game bigger than roe, its illegal to use bullets lighter than 139 gr. in Norway. Its a shame for this combo would be a dream hunting the southern high plains for raindeer.

Anyway...it is a real tackdriver and have proved to be a splendid roe caliber.
( and for the record... it�s topped with a Leupold 6x42 :0))

Arild