Best cartridge for Light Mountain Gun

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Thanks for the photos! No need for the new-fangled wizzums, or any such non-sense.;)

My hats off to you good Sir!
 
Wow, cool pics and nice work. Gee...a short barrelled lever action with iron sights...and a dead Dall. Kinda makes all these 'mountain rifle' threads look a little silly don't it. Probably used a 170g flat nosed bullet with the BC of a pop can too...That is just a plain great real world photo....Real hunter, real gun, really dead sheep in a beautiful spot. Nice work there fella.

How long a shot was it?
 
11 years old??? It's a real beauty. Yukon by supercub or NWT by chopper? I also love the small binos. Great photo. Thanks.

You look way too clean to have been on a long backpack hunt. lol
 
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I took a shot at a small mulie with an old m94 30-30 when I was a kid and hit 3 feet low at 175 yards.. Part gun, part me... Since then I prefer to own both a blunt and sharp tool for deer hunting.
Tikka t3 lite in 6.5x55 and an 1895 in 45/70. My old man used a Ruger m77 7mm RM for about 20 years and then without consulting me bought a rem 770 in 30-06 because he liked the stock...

But then I used to borrow guns from him and now he borrows them from me and I'm 30...
 
Yukon by floatplane. I drew one of two sheep tags in the Richardson mountains, northern Yukon last year. The shot ended up being about 40 yds, the ram quartering away and running. Unfortuneatly after entering just behind the ribs the bullet exited the chest and passed through the far horn!
 
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Yukon by floatplane. I drew one of two sheep tags in the Richardson mountains, northern Yukon last year. The shot ended up being about 40 yds, the ram quartering away and running. Unfortuneatly after entering just behind the ribs the bullet exited the chest and passed through the far horn!
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I guess that answers concerns about a .30/30 not penetrating.
 
Whats this? A picture of a old German tourist couple trekking in the Rockies?
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no that is a pic of my wife carrying a mdl 94 to within it's effective range of a goat, non legal ram and a pile of caribou last weekend. the indistinct red blob to her right is my 7 year old who did 20 kms that day with a huge elevation gain ending at about 2 k above sea level. My boy and wife and I were limping and whining at the end of the 14 hours but the daughter literally skipped and happily sang her way through the last couple kilometers and was ready for more the next day while the rest of us were very content to look around from camp.

Here is another one of the girls and thier mountain rifle. Like I said above I'd prefer a super whiz bang cartridge but the below rifle and a 6.5 will be back up there waiting at the passes on the morning of aug 1 and sporadically through the rest of the season.
The only serious draw back to the mdl 94 is the lack of a rubber butt plate. The hard plastic does'nt stick as well to smooth rock and suffers awfully on the rough stuff.

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In all seriousness I'd spend more time planning what rope to bring on a mountain hunt then on what rifle.

an easy climb
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result of a not easy climb
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One consideration in cartridge choice is wind. So far this scouting season we have 8 days and the wind was pretty much howling every minute. Does'nt take much range to push a bullet a long way when the wind reaches even 10 mph.
 
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Duncan Idaho said:
Had a 700 Titanium in 30-06. Recoil was minor, even with heavy bullets and hot loads.

I now carry another 700 Titanium in 260 Rem. Under 6 lbs with mounts, scope, sling, and 4 rounds. Intended for sheep, but plenty of punch to drop an elk or moose. Recoil is very light, like shooting a 223.
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^not to nitpick, but how is that even possible? im a sucker for lightweight these days, so im interested in what scope you used... and im assuming Talley lightweight ringmounts?

the rifle itself is listed at 5.25lbs. your scope, mounts, sling and 4 rounds of .260 are under 12oz?
i just weighed 4 rounds of 150gr .308 (no .260, which would be a tad lighter) and its 3.75oz. a very basic lightweight web sling with swivels is 4.25oz. your scope and mounts weigh under 4oz? :confused:
 
man bearpig get a foam core carbon fibre stock, drill holes in everyting, flute everything, buy a kahles scope and then tie 6 helium ballons to it and you'll have what you are looking for.

Or suffer the extra 1/2 pound and use the 3000 you save to buy a mule or get flown in a bit closer.
 
I hear ya , I feel the same way about giving up cigarettes and grill cheeze sandwhiches. Think I'll just buy a mule, easier to fight it's stubborness then my own.

Or the other option for shaving wieght is to just make sure you visit the throne room before starting the day LOL
 
One of the most overlooked ways to dump 10-16 oz,s is to dump the scope! I know for most of you it is not a consideration but I have made a point of doing most of my own hunting in the past year with open sights and have not had to pass on anything yet. Now I have a williams FP on my husqvarna .308 which makes for a sweet carrying 6lbs 7oz gun, and have ordered a williams for my model 94. Aperature sights are capable of great accuracy with a little practice. Think of it this way, even with a short range cartridge like the 30-30 and iron sights you still have a great advantage over a bowhunter..... and maybe makes you a little more of a 'hunter' than a 'shooter'!
 
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