no mags, huh? how about a 6.5 of some sort? the 6.5x55 swede is good, the 6.5x54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer is even better! oodles of class, and those long 160's will punch through everything.again no need to thank me, iprefer my roasts bone in...
Choose Archie's next moose rifle
- Thread starter archie_james_c
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- Dah Soo,ON
- Location
- Dah Soo,ON
Curt- the .338 FED. really gave me a hard time in the thinkin dept. Another reason I like the .308 though (especially in the Kimber situation) is the small lightass frams they can be built on.
Kevin .303-
Only one of the guys in our hunt party shoots a pump....30-06 with a SIMMONS 8 POINT 3-9 he says its the cats ass hahahaha. So far not one of my rifles have ever been taken int he bush with ironsights on them and I aims to keep it that way except for my M305 that I'll be luggin this year .
Kevin .303-
Only one of the guys in our hunt party shoots a pump....30-06 with a SIMMONS 8 POINT 3-9 he says its the cats ass hahahaha. So far not one of my rifles have ever been taken int he bush with ironsights on them and I aims to keep it that way except for my M305 that I'll be luggin this year .
gah! your all podunks, probably shooting pump action 270's with see thru-rings and sportsman scopes!
(i joke because i love )
Nothing wrong with the pump action...
Remmy 7600 in .270 is perfect for deer/moose !!
Curt- the .338 FED. really gave me a hard time in the thinkin dept. Another reason I like the .308 though (especially in the Kimber situation) is the small lightass frams they can be built on.
Kimber chambers the Montana and the 84M Classic in .338 Federal as well.
http://www.kimberamerica.com/rifles/84m/84m_montana/
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- Dah Soo,ON
Sorry Blargon I JUST realized that as well.
Hmm seems people are rooting for the Finnlight pretty hard...beter start selling some more guns!
- Location
- Annapolis Valley, NS
my brother shot his NB moose with a 270 pump this year, the shame, I am working on converting him to one of my good 280's
- Location
- St. Joe's Island, Ont
I think there is hope for this kid
Yep, the moose in our area are never more than 100 yds away when you see them.
It's not like your up in the rockies shootin from hilltop to hilltop.
even out here magnums are mostly an exercise in ego masterbation.
bubba always like to validate his purchase with bar stories of the 400m moose kills. in reality most are killed under 200m, and need nothing stronger then a .30-06.
- Location
- Dah Soo,ON
You nailed it on the head there Amphib. If I was going to buy a magnum to TRICK myself into believing I need one it would be another RUM. A Win. Mag. in my mind is just a waste of time. If your gonna kill your shoulder and your wallet on a 30 cal magnum you might as well get the biggest there is. But never less a party member of ours took a 45" bull 3 years ago at 350 yards with........A .308
oh my god...I don't know how it died...must have been from laughter of that measly 180 gr. tearing through his lungs...because surely the only way a moose can be dropped at that range is if the bullet leaves the muzzle at 3040 fps or more .
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- Dah Soo,ON
I notice alot of people are voting Sako. While I love them and think there gorgeous guns, accuracy wise how are these things supposed to be any better than a Kimber or a bedded Model 70? There barrels are all hammer-forged no? Better quality control I'm assuming. Or is there price just high because of the higher grade wood (looks to be higher grade) and finishes on there rifles? The main reasons I chose those two Sako's was because the Bavarian is a gun I'd love to own one way or the other wether its a go-to gun or not. While the Finnlight seems it could easily fill that go-to spot being a medium-weight Stainless fluted (god I love that combo) workhorse gun...but in the end what is a Bavarian or a Finnlight going to do that a 84m Classic or Montana can't do while being almost a pound lighter??
Im sure that Sako's are amazing rifles and at the risk of being burned at the stake as a newb I dont want to bash them...Im just wondering were the extra 300-500 dollars is being spent...
Im sure that Sako's are amazing rifles and at the risk of being burned at the stake as a newb I dont want to bash them...Im just wondering were the extra 300-500 dollars is being spent...
- Location
- Dah Soo,ON
yah I seen some Bavarian .30-06's and .300wsms going for 1600 new but Im just curious as to the price if there still using the same barrel making technology. I figure it just fit and finish and higher grade wood? Still for 1220$ shipped to my door the Kimber 84M Classic is looking reeeeeal good for a 5 1/2 lbs gun.
As an avowed Sako rifle lover I'll give you my two cents.
They are what you buy when you get tired of accurizing other brands, you can always get a remchester to shoot sooner or later, but Sako just does everything right, right out of the box. They are built well, they look good, they shoot as well or better than just about any other factory rifle, they tend to feed smoother, they jump to the shoulder when you are hunting...I could go on.
They are just great hunting rifles.
I'll add four little stories. My first Sako was a stainless synthetic 75 7mm mag, it shot truly tiny groups, like half inch with multliple handloads. My second sako is a 223 A1 laminated, it will break pieces of broken clays at 320 metres with truly sloppy handloads, I clean it about every 500 rounds whether it needs it or not. My third was a 300 win mag AV, I took it to africa, hunted all over Alberta with it. The stock was a really nice oil finish walnut that I was worried about damaging so I bought a mcmillan finreglass stock. No bedding, just drop in shot to exactly the same POI, I could swap the stock in the middle of a one inch 5 shot group, that really surprised me. The last is the 75 hunter my son annually abuses, he took it to Africa as well, scrapped the crap out of the , stock, never cleaned it when we got home or after our fall hunt in 2007. I took it out this fall to make sure it was sighted in for our hunt with my current batch of handloads. I also brought a bunch of mismatched 30-06 rounds, 2 different handloads and 2 different factory loads, three bullet weights. I shot a ten shot 2 inch group with those four different loads without even letting the barrel cool just to see what would happen.
Guns that are made just about perfectly are the only ones that will perform that way, try that stuff with any other brand.
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