What is your favourite hunting caliber and

pathfinder76 said:
Shot over 150 rounds through one in the last month. There are always tears from some about how much it hurts.
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Built of stern stuff. Found it better to shoot than some 300 WMs I've come across but won't ever be a 150 a month guy lol.

Had put together a nice one on a 700 action with a Wenig stock and a Shilen barrel back when I was a kid. With the size of that rifle it was quite shootable. 26" barrel of magnum contour and a heavy enough piece of walnut. Probably about 8.5 lbs unscoped.

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Being a country boy must be great. No desks. Computers. People. Just you, your gun and your backpack. Living the dream! With a sore shoulder mind you but even country folk have to make sacrifices. Or do they? Not sure. Because I live in the city.
Excuse me. My Starbucks order is now up. Great wifi here btw.
 
Buckmastr said:
Being a country boy must be great. No desks. Computers. People. Just you, your gun and your backpack. Living the dream! With a sore shoulder mind you but even country folk have to make sacrifices. Or do they? Not sure. Because I live in the city.
Excuse me. My Starbucks order is now up. Great wifi here btw.
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Best of both worlds is the only way to go.

Leave when you get tired of the city slickers and rat race/traffic.

Come back when you're cravin that soy latte. Half sweet of course.
 
Everyone assumes the 338 is a overbore meat waster, with too much recoil. Let's you know they've never shot one. Think of it as a 308 win pushing 250gr bullets.

If I had to choose....crazy talk. It would be a toss up between, 7x57, 30-06, and 338wm. Crazy thought, but one only 30-06.
 
iron cat said:
I use and Iike the .303 British for any number of reasons , mostly because I get told on a continual basis that it is obsolete, not efficient enough or powerful enough as almost any other cartridge on the market .
Funny how at one time it was used ( and very sucsessfully used) for everything in North America and abroad but now it is somehow " underpowered "!Laugh2
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So true. I’m not a big game hunter but am a collector and shooter of firearms for over 30 years. I see a bunch of old Lee Enfields that everyone says their grandpa bought for $7 out of a barrel in a sporting goods store, mine included. My grandpa and his buddies shot a moose or 2 every year with their stripped down Enfields and never had to track a single one. I think the best cartridge is the one with the energy you need and the accuracy you can get with it. I also hear stories of people using Granpas rifle to take game and there is a certain bit of nostalgia to that and as well.
 
Hard to argue with a 30-06.
I don’t actually own a 500m big game rifle at the moment. Well maybe my 375 ruger?

338 federal would be a fun one to play with
 
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