thinking of a dual purpose light recoil high performance rifle for deer and yotes.

Tikkam65 said:
Flat out 6.5 x 55 hand loads
this gun loaded correct is a monster killing machine
great penitrating power 3 white tail and 1 elk this year
all had hard ball size exit wounds
My 6.5 way built as a long range elk gun and
is grouping 5 shot at .5 of an inch at 300 yards
no recoil with 140 garingers moving at 2950 fps
im getting 1000 ft lbs at 1000 yards
good for a deer at 1000 yards and a elk at 600
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Nice.
I look forward to one day shooting a 5 shot 1/2" group.... At 100 yards.
 
243 Win is the best varmint/deer combo cartridge.
25-06 or even 270 Win is a better deer/varmint cartridge.

There are no free lunches: you absolutely need to define what is your most important hunting need or you'll end up with the wrong cartridge.

Alex
 
If you like the win model 70 then I would look for a 257 roberts featherweight. They pop up on the EE from time to time. Other than that all the cartridges named will do the trick just fine.
 
I use a .243Winchester for this. You might like any of the other suggestions a bit better if you take them, but the .243Win is cerrtainly apt enough that it won't be the wrong choice and might turn out to be your favourite.
 
25/06. 75 gr Vmax at 3550 fps. 117 interlock at 3150 fps. Same point of impact at 100 yards in my gun. Never change my scope never needed a second shot on an animal
 
depending on what your search of rifles that you like brings up: 243, 6mm, 260, 7mm-08. I greatly prefer the short action. I have a couple of 257 Roberts, but have not got into them yet. Would be great for deer, but have no idea what they offer for varminting.
 
StevieK said:
If you like the win model 70 then I would look for a 257 roberts featherweight. They pop up on the EE from time to time. Other than that all the cartridges named will do the trick just fine.
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according to Ed Mantunas, long time rifle/cartridge tester and book writer, that is a poor combination. That cartridge in that rifle, was a poor shooter for accuracy. That was many years ago and he was referring to the rifles of that time.
 
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