Hunting rifle battery. Suggestions? - A cabin fever thread
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That's why I had them in the bonus category. I do agree with you though, if you want just one main hunt everything rifle a light 300 WIN MAG is hard to beat. Pair that with a varmint rifle and you'd be sitting in good standing.
I guess it wasn't you that snapped up the Sako AV 375 H&H that popped up. That one didn't last long.
Oh no I'm looking at a 22 inch 458 for a very reasonable price. You wouldn't like it though
Oh, and why would that be? Details man details...
I guess instead of burning up time on CGN you could be out hunting. Too bad we aren't allowed to use night vision to wack coyotes, then you could hunt after hours!
In those particular cartridges, I'm not "Mr. Tikka". Using the short action 308 in a long action design bums me out a bit, and I find 300 WM in a 6 pound Tikka awful because I'm NORMAL, you iron shouldered mutant!
The 308 and 300 Win are fun to own together, because a small variety of projectiles and powders gives a lot of versatility. The short action M77 Hawkeye is unbelievably handy and small. The Howa 1500 action is superb. Like a bank vault, smooth, and unbelievably inexpensive. And nice and heavy
If it was a "3 gun battery", it would have been:
22 Savage/Lakefield
30-06 Tikka T3 lite stainless
12 gauge... 25 year old 870
Tikkas, to me, are perfect in a non-magnum long action. 270, 30-06, that sort of thing. My 6.5x55 is terrific.
You only NEED 2 CF rifles to cover every animal in NA and never be stupidly over/under gunned..........234 Penguin and 340 Weatherby............However factory ammo being a concern, I'd say 243 Win and 300 WM covers almost anything you could imagine but I would want a 375+ for the big coastal bears and likely bison.............Remember there is no such thing as too dead but there sure as hell is "not dead enough"...........and there is also not dead enough fast enough............
Mine is an interarms mark X action. Mauser 98 basically. 26" barrel. Custom cut hardwood stock. Action and barrel glass bedded as is mahogany inlays into the stock. Hand cut cool diamond pattern checkering. Palm swell and mercury recoil reducer. It balances perfectly at the floor plate and comes to shoulder perfectly. I have a elite 2-7x32 with express back up rear and front ramp sight. It's actually quite gentle to shoot. 405 gr at 2450 fps. A few guys that thought 308 wins were big got cut by the old Redfield 4x I had on it. I've shot some 500 or 510 gr factory loads that made 2100 fps and recoil was like 3.5" turkey load from pump 12ga. To me it's not bad to others they want to cry just watching me shoot
It's probably best to work up to a 458 wm. My reloads are a starting load but there no way I could load a more accurate load and I'm using soft bullets for now so no need for more.
