Hunting Elk and Deer Calibers

[rustycrusty]

I think it’s a distance call.

Where I hunt, max distance shot will be 100yd. Lots of hiking involved. For this, I choose the lightest possible setup. That’s a lightweight AR pistol, or handy rifle w/ red dot in 300blk or similar caliber (7.62x39, 30-30)

If I were stretching beyond 100yd, then I would move to 308 and get the leanest lightest gun there. I don’t trust myself to make repeatable shots from an unsupported position on a moving target past 300yd. For this reason, other larger calibers are pointless for me.

Also, with bullet technology pushing terminal ballistics, I would say that the Fudd calibers are just unnecessary.

30.06 is a shitty grouping caliber, and the ‘power’ is unnecessary for any North American game that is within my comfort distances.

I’ve not tried any of the exotics, but I hear that 6.5 Grendel and Creedmore do the job of ultra distance hunting better than any others.

I will remain too poor to find out.


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[bobbyfairbanks]

30.06 is a shitty grouping caliber, and the ‘power’ is unnecessary for any North American game that is within my comfort distances.



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What are you smoking 30/06 can group very well. Anything can group well if you can shoot and the gun is assembled properly blah blah. You must be smoking something good to make that comment