A Proper Sheep Rifle

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Beautiful ram!

I imagine you have twist that allows your 6mm Rem. to use heavier bullets.

That said, when I drew my bighorn tag, and chose a guide, his minimum caliber was 6.5mm. and he much preferred a .270 or 7mm like the 7mm-08, but highly respected an accurate the 30-06.

He was neither for nor against magnums, but wanted a caliber that could, "anchor" a ram with a well-placed shot.

He was very demanding about field shooting skills. He had a 100% success rate for sheep and wanted to keep it.

Months before our hunt he asked me to come out for a field shooting test, I came out with my Browning Safari 30-06 that I then had for 33 years, that was 20 years ago. He took me out to place to shoot that had mirage heat waves and wind. He gave me one shot only at 300 yards, which was the range he guaranteed he would get me within.

I passed his test with flying colors. I took my Ram at 120 yards.

My Ram had broomed horns too.

Congrats on the ram. My Tikka is a 6.5 Creedmoor - its ballistics blow the 300 RUM out of the water.