Update. The .30-06 is good enough as a short range deer rifle.

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Thomas Pigion says so! :p

If you want a rifle for longer shots or other game, you must now shoot a .300 WSM. I wonder if the elk have heard this yet? But once the word starts getting around, .30-06 bullets will start bouncing off of them like rubber balls...

But whatever you do, don't question Thomas Pigion.
 
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Thomas Pigeon from Canada in the Rough? .30-06 for short range deer? Is he getting paid by someone to talk nonsense like that? Maybe he gets royalties for every .300 WSM convert!:D

I've never shot or hunted elk, but there's a slew of fellas out there really big on using large magnums for this animal. Are elk harder to knock down than a moose? Yet I see others hunting them with .270's....hhhmmm. Magnum Mania?
 
I've not hunted elk yet either, but as with other animals, its shot placement that kills them. But from what I understand, they are one tough SOB.

I don't put too much thought into what the Pigeon man says.;) Maybe Stoeger has a bunch of .300wsm laying around and want him to push them.:)
 
Wow, I'm glad that I all my elk and moose where either a bow, muzzleloader, or .270 Win especially given the 30-06's & it's marginal performance:rolleyes:.
 
that's NOTHING- i have back issues of GUNS AND AMMO magazine that advocate the 338 win mag as the MINIMUM cartridge with premium bullets- well. we with the '06 and 308s KNOW BETTER- just have to sneak closer and MAKE IT COUNT- this involves both practise with the rifle to make sure it hits where it looks and a good knowlege of the vitals of our prey
 
Don't think I'd take anything from TV as gospel, let alone radio, newspapers or magazines. But many do, apparently.
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I've learned from watching TV and movie stars in action films that the best way to shoot is to close my eyes momentarily each time I squeeze off a shot.
 
t-star said:
that's NOTHING- i have back issues of GUNS AND AMMO magazine that advocate the 338 win mag as the MINIMUM cartridge with premium bullets-
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Gee I wonder how thousands of Deer, Boar, and Moose are harvested in Sweden each season with the 6.5x55 Swede? Must be lucky shots. :rolleyes: :D
 
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I'm gonna have to go to the freezer and apologize to the elk and moose. I really shouldn't have shot them from so far away. I feel ashamed now:redface:

If the .30-06 is a crappy short range deer gun, what the hell am I going to do with my new .270 WSM? Maybe it will do as a medium range varmint gun:rolleyes:
 
Woodsman said:
Are elk harder to knock down than a moose? Yet I see others hunting them with .270's....hhhmmm. Magnum Mania?
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blargon said:
I've not hunted elk yet either, but as with other animals, its shot placement that kills them. But from what I understand, they are one tough SOB.
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I haven't shot any Elk myself but I have heard from people hat have shot both that they seem to be a little harder to put down then a Moose.
 
With the proper loads a 30-06 is plenty of gun for any game animal in north america, except the larger bears . Then something from the magnum menu is in order.
 
I was told recently by a guy who is going bison hunting that the outfitter (or canned hunt operator in this case) asked him what rifle he was going to bring

he said "30-06"

guy laughed and said "you need a 300 short magnum to kill a bison"

amazing how 200 fps makes a cartridge go from marginal to excellent :D
 
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