what is the biggest game can Tikka T3 .270 win hunt ?
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Guess I never noticed til today, we’re split into two clubs, Jacks and Elmers. I likeO’Connors way.
I like Elmer’s way
More of a Warren Page fan myself. But I used to read all three of them and liked their work.I like Elmer’s way
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O'connor's advice seems to be to use the 243 or 257 if you're not in Grizzly country, the 270, 7x57, or 30-06 if you are, and if you're hunting Alaska Brown Bear to use a 338 or 375.
It's not clear to me that he even used the 270 more than the 7x57 or 30-06.
It's not clear to me that he even used the 270 more than the 7x57 or 30-06.
I'm more of an O'Connorite than a Keithian, but I don't dismiss the big-bore crowd altogether.
Here is what a friend of mine told me on the subject.
“I will probably always have a 270, as I am a far gone O'Connor fan, and my wife likes to shoot my 270 due to the slightly lower recoil with 130's. Having said that, I have spent hundreds of hours with Brad O'Connor over the years, including staying at his house multiple times, and he claims Jack would always say the 30-06 was a more versatile all around cartridge. He will then point out that while he always had a 270 available while hunting in Canada, that something like 11 of Jacks 12 grizzlies were taken with the 30-06's he also had along on the trips.“
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Perhaps by convergent evolution as he hunted similar things in similar places, that’s where I’ve landed in my cabinet, too. Presently have .243, .250 & .257, .308, .375. Gone are the .458s, .475s, .577s and in are the quarter bores and .30s. Got a few more impending trips to Africa and can’t kill the .375 just yet, but it’s fast enough to survive the cull.
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I like Elmer’s way
And good thing too, be a mighty dull place if we all agreed on chamberings and rifles
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same here and I too don't dismiss the big bore crowd at all. I love the big bores, although I want my big bores doing aver 2400fps
And good thing too, be a mighty dull place if we all agreed on chamberings and rifles
It would sure reduce the number of posts on this forum. This debate seems to flare up in a new thread about once a week
It isn’t complicated at all. It really doesn’t matter, within reason, what cartridge you go hunting with in the game field of this country.
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The last game changing revolution in cartridge technology was smokeless powder, which is hard to debate when a 6.5x55 which entered service in 1893 does anything a Creed will.
What smokeless did was bring the velocity we debate the utility of.
Yep, the Norwegians adopted the "Torpedo" bullet in 1925, the Swedes in 1941. The 6.5 CM, 7mm-08 and 308 are repackaging of things that were around in the 1890's. Germany entered WWI with a rifle/cartridge pushing 3000fps. The 270 is 100 years old. Even the newest cartridge, the 22 Creedmoor is just a rebadged 22 Ackley from the 1940's. The 224 Valkyrie is the Lindahl Chucker of the 1930/40's.
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Even that, I’m not so sure if we’re talking typical bolt action hunting rifles. And functionally, not much difference in the hunting field between a Garand and an AR10.
Some of my favourite rifles are around a hundred or more years old, and they don’t give up a thing to a new manufacturer one.
When it comes to bolt action, no not at all. Lots of us still toting rifles based off ye olde Mauser! I might say some manufacturing techniques but...splitting hairs. They work. One could say with the solid steel, hand fitting etc a nice older rifle brings a lot more reliability and sure is accurate too.
Functionally I'd say theres a lot of difference between the Garand and the AR platform with the ease of barrel changes and converting to different chamberings, ease of mounting different accessories, ease of having it be consistently accurate etc. But I know what you mean about once you're shooting it, you're shooting it. Fundimentally.
Seen ya shoot a Garand a wee bit far out there too. lol. I have a really hard time comparing one to an AR shooting say 6mm ARC though.
