What rifle will you be hunting with this year?
Idaho
9/4/03 6:46pm
I will be hunting with a plain jane winchester black shadow in .270 with a sightron 3x9 scope. She looks plain but puts the biscuit in the basket! What are you fellas going to be using?
Idaho
Idaho
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be it standing in front of me or my best shot was 542 paces thru chest wall got [134 grs back]-
good luck- no matter what you use gun or ammo
later, MM
and easy to nail (game)
i also have a savage 30-06 that i use often
i love huntin in utah excpept for the rip off prices of a tag now and that the fact i only saw a spike this yr
SWEDISH MAUSER CARTRIGE IS MORE TAN PLENTY AS WE SELDOM HAVE MORE 150 TO 200 METER SHOTS ITS NOT VERY FLAT SHOOTER BUT I SEAM TO HIT WHAT I AIM AT
vari-x2 from javelina to elk in Arizona. :lol:
Did a nice job on Elk in 2003 Season. Looked at a few smaller Muleys in the scope but didn't get anything large enough to make my figure move.
(A) Remington 700 Sendero 7mmSTW with a Leupold VX-III 6.5 x 20 x 40
or
(B) Remington 700 Sendero 7mm Mag with a Leupold LPS 3.5 x 14 x 56
Those heavy barrels are heavy hitters.................. ](*,)
I shoot a Ruger 270 and always use 130 gr. for Mulies. So I would go with that choice if it was me. You'll get a little better velocity and 130 gr. packs plenty of punch. Good luck, keep us posted. :)
To the guy with the 6.5x55. I had a Parker Hale 1200 Super re-barreled to 6.5x55 for my ex-wife. With good handloads it's just under 2850 fps with the 140 gr Hornady,,,,darn I miss that rifle!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What rifle or cartridge you use is not near as important as how you use what you got!
You need to use a different bullet. A 180gr bullet from a 30-06 with a muzzle velocity of 2700fps arrives at 500yds at 1351fps (nosler data). It has 729 remaining ft lbs energy and your bullet only retained 74% of it's weight. At something in the neighborhood of 200 yds, the bullet, at 2085fps (also nosler) and 1738 lbs remaining energy would likely blow up on contact.
To figure energy: velocity X velocity, devided by 7000 (# grains in a pound), devided by 64.32 (the specific weight if gravity), X the weight of the bullet in grain's. For a game bullet, 74% weight retention just isn't all that great.
Don [/quote]
4Horns2
This will be my son's first year in the field with me. He'll be carryin' my .270 for our Mule deer hunt and his .243 for our White-tail hunt.
Anyways, That guns been with me on every hunt since then and I'm keepin with it (Figure after as long as i've had it, I'm bound to get lucky and hit somethin with it sometime soon 4c )