Are new calibers 7mmPRC,300PRC,the WSMs practical,realistic option for hunting??

Smokinyotes said:
I was kind of thinking I might need a 7 PRC but it lags a little behind my 7LRM. Really can’t see any advantage.
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There is so little that one cartridge has over another these days. Actually in maybe the last 75 or 80 years, possibly more.
Most of them will cleanly kill anything that they are sent to kill
Distances shot, short/ long actions, weight ( or lack of it) etc, all these things are just added details .
I really think a person should just pick a cartridge in a rifle they like ( the rifle is far more important than what it is chambered in) and be happy - unless they want more than one ! LOL
Cat
 
Smokinyotes said:
I was kind of thinking I might need a 7 PRC but it lags a little behind my 7LRM. Really can’t see any advantage.
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No worries .... Someone will come alone shortly and mention that the 7mag case has a belt and thus unreliable for accuracy & killing game. <sarc> :)
 
9.3 Hunter said:
Junk calibers
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While I would not be a fan of many of the new chamberings, I would not call them junk. The problem is that most just replicate what has already been done and may appeal more to those who like to sport around with something a bit more cool than a run-of-mill 30-06. I've been guilty of this myself, only I like the older, more obscure chambers. Makes me cool. :)

In the end, everything still gets compared to the boring olde 308, 270 or 30-06.
 
SuperCub said:
No worries .... Someone will come alone shortly and mention that the 7mag case has a belt and thus unreliable for accuracy & killing game. <sarc> :)
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Predictably, didn’t age well. Same as the .375 Ruger will supplant the .375 H&H steam that was briefly the chat around the digital cowboy coffee.

Nothing wrong with the short squat chamberings. It’s tough to overcome a century’s worth of established performance and guns afield.
 
It’s like I tell my kids. If your graduation picture hair does not identify your graduation era it was likely a good haircut.

A timeless classic is always in style.
 
Exactly my concern!

Jay said:
Your post got me thinking & looking around... I have a 7mm Rem Mag, but have been enamoured with the 300 WSM since it came out...

Saw a 300 WSM rifle at a good price & got thinking, boy would it be nice to have one... And then I went looking for some ammo...

Can't find any! (And I know guys with better Google-Foo likely can...) But the bottom line is, I can't just walk into Cabelas, SAIL or CanTire & grab a box or two of various 300 WSM, it ain't on the shelves.

So, no WSM for me... At least not at this point.

Cheers
Jay
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I was in exactly the same predicament and came to the same conclusion.:cheers:
 
SuperCub said:
Looks like the King of the 375s has abdicated. :)
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He’s been busy working the whole time, never left, never worried by the internet debate. ;)

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ShrtRnd said:
Deja vu? We saw this when the WSMs originally came out. Hot commodity for a few yrs then everyone jumped ship on them. Saw more then a few guys show up at my Club at the time all proud to have these 300 WSM, until they went through a half or full box and promptly offer it up for sale to anyone who was there haha..
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Maybe where you are, but where I am the 300 WSM has been one of the most popular cartridges for the last decade. Mostly bought by hunters who want a do all cartridge for deer, moose, elk and bear. No question though that 300WSM ammo has been hard to come by for the last 2 years but so has anything. 300WSM ammo seems to be showing up in heaps the last couple of weeks though.

I don't know exactly how ammo makers prioritize manufacturing but I assume during covid when they had less staff available they put the most common stuff like 9mm,., 223, 308 ahead of anything else.
 
Ardent said:
Funny how out of all of them, the winner has been the .270 WSM. Few would have predicted that at the outset, but it makes a lot of sense. Has the least recoil, best trajectory at all hunting ranges, and takes a great recipe and makes it arguably better; a not overly heavy bullet, at high speed, without burning an obscene amount of powder. Essentially, doing the most with the least. I still don’t own one, but I guided it and respect it.
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I don't see many 270WSM compared to the 300WSM but in many ways the 270WSM made the most sense from a performance standpoint. There are many .30 caliber magnum cartridges but few .270 caliber options. If a guy likes the .270 Winchester the 270 WSM offered better performance but in a short action and not much more recoil.
 
iron cat said:
There is so little that one cartridge has over another these days. Actually in maybe the last 75 or 80 years, possibly more.
Most of them will cleanly kill anything that they are sent to kill
Distances shot, short/ long actions, weight ( or lack of it) etc, all these things are just added details .
I really think a person should just pick a cartridge in a rifle they like ( the rifle is far more important than what it is chambered in) and be happy - unless they want more than one ! LOL
Cat
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Absolutely. I tend to gravitate towards cartridges that interest me and the rifle itself. Within 300 yards all of them do about the same thing on game whether it's a .308, 270, 300 magnum or 7mm-08. When distances get greater the more horsepower helps a bit. I don't think I've ever seen an animal fold up as fast as one giant (almost 7ft) black bear I shot with my 375 Ruger and 250gr TTSX though. No great theatrics from the bear, at 150 yards and he was down, very dead. I actually thought I had missed because the bear didn't seem to have reacted but my hunting partner said "he just bent his knees and laid down" :)
 
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