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Originally posted by huntingineurope:
Hi Sevastopol


If you plan to visit iberhunting, you avoid worrying by bringing your own rifle, you can borrow several different calibers from Antonio and there is the opportunity to test them before you start hunting.

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Originally posted by huntingineurope:
Hi Sevastopol


If you plan to visit iberhunting, you avoid worrying by bringing your own rifle, you can borrow several different calibers from Antonio and there is the opportunity to test them before you start hunting.

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Originally posted by Hunt Inter:
Many Europeans like big calibres but more important is using what you know and can use well. A .30-06 is fine but I do like a .300 or 8x68 for much of my hunting

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Originally posted by Sevastopol:
These were recommended minimum calibers for the Ronda Ibex hunt, specifically, on their website (IIRC): .338 Mag, .300 Mag, and .270 Weatherby. Shots averaging @ 300 yds. I would have thought my .30-06 would be plenty, but their experience must include some doping errors leading to disappointed customers, is my guess. I don't know if holding for wind would be necessary but, if so, that would be more difficult than hold over.

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:

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Originally posted by Sevastopol:
These were recommended minimum calibers for the Ronda Ibex hunt, specifically, on their website (IIRC): .338 Mag, .300 Mag, and .270 Weatherby. Shots averaging @ 300 yds. I would have thought my .30-06 would be plenty, but their experience must include some doping errors leading to disappointed customers, is my guess. I don't know if holding for wind would be necessary but, if so, that would be more difficult than hold over.

The .30-06 has ample power for any animal the size of an ibex. If the issue is distance, then recommending a .338 over a .30-06 is obviously foolish since the two have virtually identical trajectories; however, it is generally more difficult to achieve accuracy with a .338 as compared to a .30-06.

It has been my experience that professional guides are anything but ballisticians. Their knowledge of cartridges and performance stem from a relatively small universe of observations in which the caliber of the gun was inaccurately blamed for problems caused by something else, such as bullet construction, shot placement, poorly sighted rifles, etc., etc.

Bottom line: You are MUCH better off using a rifle in .30-06 which you shoot well and in which you have confidence than some rifle in a larger caliber in which you have no such basis for confidence.

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Originally posted by FMC:
The slam is a great hunt.

As stated above though all the terrain can be difficult (it is after all mountain hunting), as a whole the Ronda hunts are the most challenging from a terrain and numbers standpoint. I took my .300 Win because it's been my "go to" rifle and is special to me. Shot many a good animal with it including my lion.

Ibex are neither large nor tough an animal and (my) shots range from 100-300 yards. I'd be more than comfortable bringing my .270 Win, which with an 130 gr bullet @ 3000 fps is the ballistic twin of a .300 Win with an 180 gr @ 3000 fps. Zero at 200 and you won't have to think.

I went with Loic Sintes - ProHunt Safaris and had a fantastic hunt.

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Originally posted by A.J. Hydell:
30-06, ... topped with Sierra or Speer 165gn slugs. All you need, nothing you don't.

Get it zeroed for 200-yds, but know the 300-yd 'dope' - for the latte-sippers here, that's marksman-speak for 'hold-overs.'

Unless you fugly the shot, you'll have a dead Ibex right there.