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  1. F

    Range Time?

    AWESOME practice drill !!!!!
  2. V

    Hunting Rifle Purgatory

    I had the same desires for the same exact reasons as you. So I bought a couple of wsm rifles. Currently I have LEUPOLD VX3s on them but will put LR duplex type scope which has BDC type reticle. Zero at 200 yards (high power setting)with a second focal plane scope and I’ll make it work. Prior to...
  3. thebestusernamesaretaken

    Use Enough Gun

    This is a timely post, been thinking of getting a new firearm for elk / moose(?). This may help the decision making process - or add frustrations and cause me to stick with my bow :)
  4. T

    Use Enough Gun

    So I guess the bull moose my girlfriend killed with the 25-06 and a 115TSX should never have happened? One shot, that little bullet went completely thru both shoulders and exited. Went 25yds and fell over.
  5. D

    Use Enough Gun

    So this story about the failed 243 shot makes me wonder. Oh, I am not a big fan of the 243 as a deer cartridge but if it was all I had I'd use in in a sec. maybe if your friend had used a different bullet or chose a different shot the outcome would have been different. The 243 did not fail, the...
  6. buffybr

    Need help with choice of weapon

    OK, I've only been hunting since the mid '60s, annually in Colorado or Montana along with a dozen or more international hunts, and I have never heard of class 2 or 3 game animals, and what I thought a manbun was is a girly-boy haircut that looks like the knot tying off a garbage bag. So back to...
  7. LuketheDog

    Use Enough Gun

    What a load of hot garbage, learn how to shoot...and get a newer book
  8. M

    Use Enough Gun

    Use Enough Gun The last elk I shot was a cow, taken about 190 yards away. An easy shot. Just as I fired, and elk behind her, moved closer and she hopped forward. There was nothing I could have changed at that point. Had she waited a full second later to jump, my bullet would have gone through...
  9. MTLabrador

    Use Enough Gun

    To be fair, I’ve never shot any kind of pork.
  10. M

    Use Enough Gun

    I understand your disbelief completely. Thank You for responding to my post MTL, That happened about 15 years ago. Before the drought hit the southwest, particularly central California where pigs were everywhere. I hunted them year round, especially so during the summer when the barley...
  11. M

    Cartridge Selection - AR

    Thank you for thorough response. I appreciate the feedback!
  12. buffybr

    Cartridge Selection - AR

    Like others have posted, head shots are generally NOT recommended on deer or most big game animals. I have large hands, and a deer's brain is smaller than my fist, and the other lethal target in the head is the spinal chord which would be smaller than my thumb. Those are pretty small targets...
  13. pointingdogsrule

    Favorite Pronghorn round ?

    I have a 25-06, however, I really shoot well with the .223. I am I only one that shoots a .223 for antelope? good luck to all the dog
  14. Clam

    First time hunter rifle

    I just don’t see the need for big power Cartridges on deer and antelope, but I am a firm believer in well constructed bullets placed well, at speeds they are designed for. How about .223 with a top quality hunting bullet? (If .22 is legal in your state) or 6x45 w/Nosler 85gr. Partition? Maybe...
  15. Jorge400

    Anyone hunt with 6.5 PRC?

    A bit off PRC topic but I recently purchased a Christensen Arms Ridgeline in 6.5 Creedmore. It comes with a muzzle break but I've never used it. Don't need to. This gun has very little recoil with 140+/- gr bullets. I'm not sure if it is the rifle, the cartridge or the recoil pad, but I switched...
  16. Brian in Montana

    Speed goat vs .223

    Most antelope hunting I've done has been archery. I've shot 2 WT deer with a .222; both were like 80 yards and it worked out fine. The only antelope I've shot with a rifle was this year with a 7mm-08. I guess I'd add that although my gun hunting experience is limited as it pertains to...
  17. 1100RemingtonMan

    Rifle Cartridges for Hunting

    .22 LR. Small Game .17 HMR. Praire Dogs .223 Rem. Varmint's 6mm Rem. Coyotes & Deer & Antelope 264 Win Mag. Deer & Antelope. 30-30 Win. All I have shot with it is a rabbit, just don't hunt with it. Should sell it. 300 H&H Mag Any large Big Game in North America Good thing I...
  18. antelopedundee

    Favorite Pronghorn round ?

    Probably not, but WY has a minimum bullet weight of 60 grains if you use one there.
  19. npaden

    Sons First Elk Rifle - Poll

    LOL. I knew there were a lot of threads on it, heck, I think I've even posted a thread about this before. It's a paralysis by analysis thing for me. I should have bought something for him last year but we kept the .223 one more year for deer. One guy I talked to had a .243 Kimber Montana...
  20. F

    First attempt at “long range” shooting.

    My match rifle started out as Remington 700 5-R in 308. Scope is a Bushnell 3.5-21 DMR. I added bottom metal so I could use 10 round mags and put in a Rilfe Basix trigger and shot it for a couple of years. There wasn’t a Tactical Division , 223/308, then so I figured out pretty quick the 308...
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