Best deer caliber

Although this is a personal preference and there are so many more questions that need to be answered I'm going to jump in,
The 257 Roberts of course.

And Brown is the best colour, as in, if it's brown its down.

David
 
My deer rifle is .308 but I consider the best deer caliber to be .270win (long action) or 7mm08 (short action).
 
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I bring my 7mm Mag and the 7/08 with me in the truck. In wide open prairie, with long distance shots, my M70 7mm mag is the ticket. If I want to push some brush I've been taking the boys Browning Xbolt Micro Midas 7/08 the last couple years.
 
Dogleg said:
They were very popular up to about when I was in my twenties. Pushing bush was the norm, and rapid fire was wanted. About the only autoloaders that anyone had any respect for was the Browning and they were sort of regarded as a rich man's gun. The Rems typically shot well, few people reloaded (quite a few had never even heard of it), and clip fed rifles that actually worked twice in a row weren't very common. Combine that with the over-whelming dominance of pump shotguns and the pump rifle's place was secured.

What changed? Practically all of it. ;)
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Yup. Witnessed the very same back in the 1970's flatlands.
The crowd I fell in with had an assortment of Win. 88's and 100's. Remington pumps and semi's. Savage 99's and the occasional BAR.
I started with a model 94 in 30-30 and then broke ranks and started buying M700 Remingtons.
Within a couple years the bolt gun took over in 270,30-06,and 338 Win Magnum.
 
.270 is a great calibre! It was the calibre I decided on as my first hunting rifle, and I've grown to love it. Truth is though, even though it's a seriously great round, there are others than perform just as well, if not better, depending on what you expect from it. I also have a .308 which I love shooting too. It just does a very different specific job to my .270 though, as it's my go-to woodland rifle. It fires a heavy bullet relatively slowly in comparison to the .270, so for woodland use it suits me better. The .270 is known as the Highland Calibre here in the UK, specifically because it excels at the longer shots over open terrain that we tend to have when shooting upland red deer. O'Connor sung it's praises it as a plains game calibre for just that same reason I guess?

Having said all that, and despite the fact I love it, as I said there are many calibres out there that will do just as great a job for you. A lot of people cite the .308 due to the fact there are so many available bullet weights for it. Nothing at all wrong with the .308 whatsoever, but I always wonder why people would need so much choice? I use 130gr SP in the .270, and 180gr in the .308. Fast and flat, or slow and heavy, depending on what I need. Best advice I can offer is to handle a few different rifles in the more common hunting calibres, shoot them if you can, and then base your decision on whichever one you like best. Everyone has their own favourites, and what suits one bloke may not necessarily suit another :yingyang:
 
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