Really big rifles for moose and stuff.

saskcop said:
A marlin .444 with stout 300 grain speer soft point handloads used to be my automatic moose medicine. It knocked 'em down with authority and I saw one penetrate a moose from stem to stern. A 45-70 with 405 grain soft points accompanied me too at times and did a good job, but I noticed the marlin 444 shot considerably flatter past 100 meters or so.
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I've been working with an H&R Buffalo Classic, with 560 gr cast leads which I've chronied going out the muzzle about 1450 - 1500 fps. I was getting excellent groups with it, and was thinking of possibly taking it as I think a front end shot would possibly be "stem to stern" as you say, on a moose. I was thinking a front end shot would be okay with that setup. But then this week with further testing, the scope broke on me. It seems to be hard on scopes, and I'm not sure what I can put on it that would stand the recoil, without going to something way too expensive for the gun (and for me :). Besides that, it is single shot, and again is limited to about 150 yards without compensating for bullet drop.
 
it is all 9.3x62 for me now. Got another one for my son and yet another one for myself...This is all I use now from deer to moose incl. bears...and I used to be a hardcore 308 caliber guy until recently...
 
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.405 Winchester is a great moose rifle.Know of an old fellow, now passed on, that used the .405 Winchester for all his moose hunting.Bagged a lot of moose in his day with it.

Would think the .50-110 Winchester would make an interesting moose rifle,as well.
 
28 gauge said:
.405 Winchester is a great moose rifle.Know of an old fellow, now passed on, that used the .405 Winchester for all his moose hunting.Bagged a lot of moose in his day with it.

Would think the .50-110 Winchester would make an interesting moose rifle,as well.
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Bevan King was going to build a couple of 585 Nyati rifles on Pattern 14 rifles for himself and I many years ago. Never happened, but those would have been BIG big game outfits.

He built 416 Rigbys and a pair of 9.3s instead. :)

Ted
 
pastway said:
I've been working with an H&R Buffalo Classic, with 560 gr cast leads which I've chronied going out the muzzle about 1450 - 1500 fps. I was getting excellent groups with it, and was thinking of possibly taking it as I think a front end shot would possibly be "stem to stern" as you say, on a moose. I was thinking a front end shot would be okay with that setup. But then this week with further testing, the scope broke on me. It seems to be hard on scopes, and I'm not sure what I can put on it that would stand the recoil, without going to something way too expensive for the gun (and for me :). Besides that, it is single shot, and again is limited to about 150 yards without compensating for bullet drop.
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Look at springer airgun scopes. Theyre built like tanks. I have a bushnell elite 2x7 on my 458wm and its held up perfectly
 
brybenn said:
Look at springer airgun scopes. Theyre built like tanks. I have a bushnell elite 2x7 on my 458wm and its held up perfectly
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Airgun scopes? That's interesting, hadn't even thought about that.
So about your bushnell elite, does bushnell make airgun scopes, or is yours the normal bushnell elite rifle scope?
 
pastway said:
Airgun scopes? That's interesting, hadn't even thought about that.
So about your bushnell elite, does bushnell make airgun scopes, or is yours the normal bushnell elite rifle scope?
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Actually its a real oxymoron. Scopes sold on package airguns make NC star look hi end. Yet spring pellet rifles are harder on optics than recoil of a 375 H&H.

Bushnell elite are great. Where value meets quality. One cant have german glass on everything.
 
pastway said:
Airgun scopes? That's interesting, hadn't even thought about that.
So about your bushnell elite, does bushnell make airgun scopes, or is yours the normal bushnell elite rifle scope?
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Nikon rates all their scopes for airguns as well. You don't need a airgun scope persay, alot will be airgun rated. They will just have things are useful towards centerfire rifles.
 
nowarningshot said:
Actually its a real oxymoron. Scopes sold on package airguns make NC star look hi end. Yet spring pellet rifles are harder on optics than recoil of a 375 H&H.

Bushnell elite are great. Where value meets quality. One cant have german glass on everything.
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Actually I broke down today and bought a Leupold vx Freedom 3-9x40 to put on the 45-70. We'll see how long that lasts I guess.
Supposedly guaranteed.
 
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