What do you think?
- Thread starter stubblejumper
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- Back in the Peace Country
and these are the type stories that sparked my "270 can't bang flop?" thread
- Location
- Ft. Mac. Alberta
What do I think? I think the guy's a forst class IDJIT!!
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- Location
- Back in the Peace Country
I will pont out one thing though...
You choose a bullet you think will do the job, maybe recommended by a fellow hunter. Now you may shoot this bullet a thousand times at the range, but the opportunity to use it on an animal may only come with that one shot that puts down the ram, moose, whatever..
It only takes one bad bullet, one bad shot, etc etc.. then the rifle calibre and bullet get wrote off. Likewise, exceptional performance on that one shot, will make the rifle calibre and bullet, the left hand of god.
Now,..how many of you, if a bullet performed poorly would use it again,..
I think too many people put too much empahasis on a single instance, rather than the cumualtive experience of many hunters..
Yes, a deer ran 300 yrds and died after it was shot with a .270 and a premium bullet. Upon examination, there wasn't much damage.
Does that mean the .270 no good for deer?
I think you need to look beyond your one personal experience to say that.
You choose a bullet you think will do the job, maybe recommended by a fellow hunter. Now you may shoot this bullet a thousand times at the range, but the opportunity to use it on an animal may only come with that one shot that puts down the ram, moose, whatever..
It only takes one bad bullet, one bad shot, etc etc.. then the rifle calibre and bullet get wrote off. Likewise, exceptional performance on that one shot, will make the rifle calibre and bullet, the left hand of god.
Now,..how many of you, if a bullet performed poorly would use it again,..
I think too many people put too much empahasis on a single instance, rather than the cumualtive experience of many hunters..
Yes, a deer ran 300 yrds and died after it was shot with a .270 and a premium bullet. Upon examination, there wasn't much damage.
Does that mean the .270 no good for deer?
I think you need to look beyond your one personal experience to say that.
I think the world is full of idiots and you just stumbled on another one.
Even if you look past the atrocious spelling and grammar he is still a "special" individual.
FAIL - Try shooting them in the right spot...
.270 with 130 grain ammo kills deer just fine. I've had some run, always less than 100 yards, most bang-flop or run a very short distance. Use the right type of bullet, shoot them in the right spot and they will die fast. Period, full stop.
.270 with 130 grain ammo kills deer just fine. I've had some run, always less than 100 yards, most bang-flop or run a very short distance. Use the right type of bullet, shoot them in the right spot and they will die fast. Period, full stop.
The part that concerns me is the part about all the ones he shot that are still out there running around today. Just how many did he have to shoot to decide that a .270 wouldn't do the job. Shot placement and not shooting at 500 zillion yards is the secret, I would think. The man who taught me to hunt when I was a kid always told me," A good hunter can make the long shots. A really good hunter doesn't have to." It's advise that has served me well whether I was using a lowly 30-30 or a .300WM, and keeping in mind that the "long" shot is very different for each rifle/caliber.
- Location
- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
He has it in his mind, so thats fine, its new folks to the sport that read this crap, I feel for...
I guess we should write off the 30/06 too then. Last year I shot a buck through the heart at 75 yds with a 180 gr. Nosler Partition. He ran between 100 and 150 yds. Forget about the billions of deer that it has proven itself with over the past century, the 30/06 must be a poor calibre for deer since that one ran off, avoid it at all costs people.
