fishslinger
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Go with the 223 it will cover it all, just make sure you use a well constructed heavy for cal bullet and your golden. LOL
Savage Axis .223 or Merkel SXS .375 H&H???
- Thread starter hoytcanon
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(sigh) Yes,
.....that's what everyone says.You must admit, it is a closer match.
I understand that the head on shot is highly favored by buff experts... I am a very frugal shooter, I can't see the need to waste a shot just to get the buff turned toward me... so I am having my wife make me up a special suit for the hunt, this otta turn his head!;
Ted
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(sigh) Yes,
You must admit, it is a closer match.
Ted
You have a natural and admirable flair, Ted... don't you wish that Marshall offered a hot pink polymer tip??? Your 9.3's would kill with such sensitivity...
BigUglyMan
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Burn the witch.
He's not bushed enough to understand.
They have at least two hours more daylight in Mission.And, besides, Cory would never use them. He says they would clash with The Ugly 9.3!
Ted
BigUglyMan
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Aaahh...####. I totally misread what "poodle shooter" meant which completely explains why I got kicked out of the dog park.
Seriously here. The savage axis is available in .270 and 30-06 too, so why not buy one of them, and a spare clip. You can load one clip with heavy bullets with high ballistic coefficients for long range prairie dog shooting, and the other with lighter bullets for high velocity short range shots on buffalo. Why is this even a question?
He's not bushed enough to understand.
And, besides, Cory would never use them. He says they would clash with The Ugly 9.3!
Ted
You ask a "Cowboy" about style???
You have trust your inner Valentino... channel "Chanel" as it were...
Ardent
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I believe you're looking at this rather small picture. What you really want and need is combo gun, .223 x .375, ideally from two welded together H&R's on the low end, Ruger No.1s on the high. I'll do the stock and I'll volunteer doublegun to tackle the metal. Then send it to Ralf for gold inlays, a prairie dog and Nyati clash scene.
Alas point taken. We really are running out of meaningful things to talk about here.
Alas point taken. We really are running out of meaningful things to talk about here.
MEANINGFUL has been absent from the beginning of this thread..................Hoyt, you actually missed the real question from the get go, it's not double .375 vs Axis 223, that's just silly...........the REAL question is double .375 vs double .223..........ponder that for a moment.
PS.....I have been biting my tongue and trying to stay out of these absurdities, but SOMEONE has to get this thread headed down the right track.........
PS.....I have been biting my tongue and trying to stay out of these absurdities, but SOMEONE has to get this thread headed down the right track.........
Ahhhh... a community project... I'm feelin' the vibe... it will have to be the pair of No.1's welded together... my top-dog Handi is a stubbed 9.3X74R... I happen to have the donors in the cabinet... although the lesser one is currently on the chopping block.
How about Ardent's suggestion, and O/U or SXS .223 & .375... that otta do it???
Leave it to you, Douglas, to douse the frivolity...
Hey, how about a little common sense here? You'll shoot how many prairie dogs on your hunt...50?...100?...300?
You'll probably shoot one, or at most two, buffalo.
Mathematics and logic demand that you go with the .223. Don't believe me, though...just read through the "ultimate for all of North America" thread. That's how most of those guys came to the conclusion that their old .308's were the ultimate.
I'm sure that you can find some Berger high-BC long-for-caliber heavyweight boattail monometal reverse-aspherical-ogive moly-coated corkscrew-spire-point hollow-base polymer-tipped bullets in .223 that will just barely work on buffalo...so they'll be the Ultimate!
Make sure you use standard varmint bullets on the prairie dogs, though...can't be seen as guilty of "overkill" that way.
You'll probably shoot one, or at most two, buffalo.
Mathematics and logic demand that you go with the .223. Don't believe me, though...just read through the "ultimate for all of North America" thread. That's how most of those guys came to the conclusion that their old .308's were the ultimate.
I'm sure that you can find some Berger high-BC long-for-caliber heavyweight boattail monometal reverse-aspherical-ogive moly-coated corkscrew-spire-point hollow-base polymer-tipped bullets in .223 that will just barely work on buffalo...so they'll be the Ultimate!
Make sure you use standard varmint bullets on the prairie dogs, though...can't be seen as guilty of "overkill" that way.
Hey, how about a little common sense here? You'll shoot how many prairie dogs on your hunt...50?...100?...300?
You'll probably shoot one, or at most two, buffalo.
Mathematics and logic demand that you go with the .223. Don't believe me, though...just read through the "ultimate for all of North America" thread. That's how most of those guys came to the conclusion that their old .308's were the ultimate.
I'm sure that you can find some Berger high-BC long-for-caliber heavyweight boattail monometal reverse-aspherical-ogive moly-coated corkscrew-spire-point hollow-base polymer-tipped bullets in .223 that will just barely work on buffalo...so they'll be the Ultimate!
Make sure you use standard varmint bullets on the prairie dogs, though...can't be seen as guilty of "overkill" that way.
Whatcho talkin' bout Willis! Taint no sech thing as over kill... blast the snot outta them and sort out the goo later!
Sheep, ....."There is no dangerous game rifle worth more than $399.98..,There is no dangerous game rifle worth more than $399.98..",There is no dangerous game rifle worth more than $399.98.. say that a hundred more times so we can hold you to it!!!
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Think how surprised you'd be when you mistakenly shot the PD with the .375 barrel while anticipating .223 recoil, or better yet, shooting the buff with the .223 barrel loaded for PDs, or for African context, dik-diks, while expecting .375 recoil.
