Your longest shot on game with a 300 Win Mag?

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Just bought a 300 Win Mag for Moose, Elk and Deer Hunting and was wondering what it's potential for longer shots is.

What was your longest shot on game and what ammo did you use?

Thanks!
 
It has more potential than most people are capable of shooting. Unless you are very confident in your shot , there are too many variables that come into play at longer distances which greatly increases the chances of wounding an animal with a non fatal shot
 
That is true, having the right scope it paramount if you plan on taking longer shots and most people don't. When I say longer shots I mean over 500 yards.
 
Unless you are a skilled marksman 500+ yards shots should be on paper targets When I said too many variables I meant environmental factors. Wind, elevation, temperature all play a major role in trajectory calculations
 
Buddy why be a naysayer? 500 yards is easy for me, just wondering what others have taken at longer ranges with a 300 Win Mag. :eek:)
 
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To answer your question, I shot a whitetail doe at just under 300 m with a 300WM. Measured with the GPS receiver, fired from a two-elbow sitting position. I don't remember the exact number, but was happy to get the hit.
 
Nice what cartridge did you use? I sure like the data of the Nosler Trophy Grade ABLR's in 190 Gr. and really hope my new rifle loves them :eek:)
 
Just found this while doing some searching, they believe it was the 300 Win Mag that killed it at 1,860 yards.

 
I have owned a 300 Win Mag but I never hunted with it. It was my first gun in 1987 and A little more than I could handle at the time.

I have had a 300 WSM for a few years now and I have taken Whitetails and Elk with it. Several animals were taken at ranges between 300 and 400 yards. I shoot a 165 InterBond powered by IMR-4350.
 
I have killed a whitetail does at 430 meters (lased) with my 260 nosler 120 bt

And a large timber wolf at 870 meters (lased) with a 300 win mag pushing a 178 amax
 
I read this about the shot in the after the shot analysis :eek:)

"The Dartman and his neighbor fire simultaneously to take down a coyote at 1,860 yards. One had a .300 Win. Mag, and the other had a .338 Lapua. Their shot data shows that the 300 made the hit. -

The Dartman and the neighbor take down a big o' male coyote at over a mile.

We believe the 300 made the hit. This is our shot data.

The 300 win mag - 2768 fps with 208 amax = 3.490 second time of flight.

The 338 papua- 2778 fps with 300 berger = 3.019 second time of flight.

The 338 should have hit about 0.4 seconds before the 300 and making us conclude the 300 made the kill.

300 win bullet drop @1860 yards=84.5moa or 1645 inches=137 feet of bullet drop. Energy at target-484 fp.

338 lapua @1860yards=65 moa or 1266 inches=105 feet of bullet drop. Energy at target-1012 fp."
 
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The quick answer is right around 1200 yards. The real answer is it depends on a lot of things. The first half of that 1200 isn't that hard; so when you say that 500 is easy for you I believe you. Truth is, 500 should be easy because frankly in the right circumstances it still is easy. The degree of difficulty sky-rockets right after that and a real 600 in the field is a pretty long poke.

Since you asked, my longest game shot with a .300 Win is a lasered 568 yards taken in Argentina on a red stag. Rifle was a Weatherby Ultra lightweight rebarrelled in a #2 Gaillard to .300 Win with a 3.5-10 VXL3 with B&C reticle. Load was 168 grain TSXs put up in Norma brass. Ordinary stuff, really. Just the sort of thing that makes a good general purpose hunting rifle. Since I was out of aiming points in the scope I was down to holding elevation with the infinity pin. Wind wasn't bad, estimated 5-6 MPH half force from the right.I run those numbers in my head using some tricks that I likely didn't invent but did stumble onto myself. Drilled it square through both shoulders and you could hear the crack all the way back to where we were on the valley wall.

The fun part was the reaction of the Spanish speaking guides, who it turns out were only joking about taking the shot. It took a moment to figure out that when one was pawing the dirt with his hand and saying "metros, metros" he was asking me to write down the distance in meters. Armed with the number word spread through the ranch until I was confronted by the owner who could accurately described as a giant of a man. I thought I was going to be killed for being so stupid but after he asked about the shot and stared me in the eye for what seemed like an hour, he removed his hat and bowed. Turns out that in the 200 years his family owned that ranch there was only one longer shot taken, and that was by a Argentinian sniper armed with heavy rifle and a lap-top. Last I heard they were talking about building a shrine, being the devote Catholics that they were. (OK, I made that last part up, but they were pretty excited about it). I got toasted at supper every night for the rest of the trip. They take their wine as seriously as their Catholism, so that may have been just an excuse to pound more of it.
 
The quick answer is right around 1200 yards. The real answer is it depends on a lot of things. The first half of that 1200 isn't that hard; so when you say that 500 is easy for you I believe you. Truth is, 500 should be easy because frankly in the right circumstances it still is easy. The degree of difficulty sky-rockets right after that and a real 600 in the field is a pretty long poke.

Since you asked, my longest game shot with a .300 Win is a lasered 568 yards taken in Argentina on a red stag. Rifle was a Weatherby Ultra lightweight rebarrelled in a #2 Gaillard to .300 Win with a 3.5-10 VXL3 with B&C reticle. Load was 168 grain TSXs put up in Norma brass. Ordinary stuff, really. Just the sort of thing that makes a good general purpose hunting rifle. Since I was out of aiming points in the scope I was down to holding elevation with the infinity pin. Wind wasn't bad, estimated 5-6 MPH half force from the right.I run those numbers in my head using some tricks that I likely didn't invent but did stumble onto myself. Drilled it square through both shoulders and you could hear the crack all the way back to where we were on the valley wall.

The fun part was the reaction of the Spanish speaking guides, who it turns out were only joking about taking the shot. It took a moment to figure out that when one was pawing the dirt with his hand and saying "metros, metros" he was asking me to write down the distance in meters. Armed with the number word spread through the ranch until I was confronted by the owner who could accurately described as a giant of a man. I thought I was going to be killed for being so stupid but after he asked about the shot and stared me in the eye for what seemed like an hour, he removed his hat and bowed. Turns out that in the 200 years his family owned that ranch there was only one longer shot taken, and that was by a Argentinian sniper armed with heavy rifle and a lap-top. Last I heard they were talking about building a shrine, being the devote Catholics that they were. (OK, I made that last part up, but they were pretty excited about it). I got toasted at supper every night for the rest of the trip. They take their wine as seriously as their Catholism, so that may have been just an excuse to pound more of it.

Awesome story Dogleg, just so happens that this is what I bought myself for Christmas, yep a Weatherby Ultra lightweight lol! Picked it up on sale for $1,560.00 at Cabelas.

I have not shot it yet, tell me how is the recoil?

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You won't have to ask anyone if it went off, but it is considerably better as a .300 Win than a .300 Weatherby. My son shot his first moose with it when he was 14, and lived through it easily.
 
I'd say you've got some shooting to do if long range shooting is where you're headed. Determining range and adjusting for trajectory is the easy part; wind, light, mirage, shooting angles that diminish target size, vegetation that prevents you from getting into the solid low position you used at the range, and the open ended timing that occurs whenever shooting live targets, will combine to challenge, confound, and humiliate you. Warm weather zeros and come-ups are seldom appropriate in the cold, and those worked out in the cold, won't work very well when it warms up. Light contour barrels heat quickly, and two shot groups are all you can count on to hit the same point of aim. Enjoy!!
 
Furthest BG animal was a whitetail at 400 yrds but furthest animal shot was 900 yrds to kill a coyote, the closest was a Mule deer at 15 ft ( between the eyes and really messed up the animals head), all with 150 gr Hornady bulk bullets at around 3250 fps.
 
Nothing terribly long for me.

Moose at just over 300 yards, paced off. Drilled it through both shoulders went about 15 feet and then died in a 20ft deep hole just off the side of the old oil service road.

Mule deer doe at 350 lasered.

Probably the best shot I've ever made in my life was on a Kudu, 230 metres, so right about 250 yards. Across a canyon in RSA, 30 MPH cross wind, could barely stand up in it during the stalk. Held just inside the back leg, hit it a bit high but hard as I didn't realize the animal was walking on a bit of a downslope. Hit it again within seconds and down it went.

For me, I was really comfortable up to 400 yards, practised a lot, used a regular duplex reticle. Once past that I just wasn't comfortable.
 
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