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Old 10-18-2021, 11:53 AM
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OK Riflemen,

If you were going to chose a base for a long range hunting gun, but light enough to pack in the mountains, which would you choose - 300 Win Mag, or 30-06?
I'd suggest a .300 Wby Mag, hands down. Currently their factory ammo is also more readily available as the other two mentioned if you don't reload.

But from the two you mentioned I'd probably choose .300 Win Mag. Why? Because it's got a larger casing and if you handload you can pack more punch. And/or go with Buffalo Bore.
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Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s I was going to school in SW Montana.
That area is about the best big game hunting in the country,
and I took full advantage of it.
I had a Winchester Model 70 30:06 with a Weaver K4 scope on it. Was
able to take deer, elk, antelope and bear. Don't recall ever needing more
than 1 shot, nor do I remember ever missing.
My favorite round was the 180-Gr. Winchester silver tip.
Twenty some years ago I quit hunting and gave all my long guns away.
When I told my wife, she said you did what? Are you crazy? So, that's
how I got the name crazyphil.
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About ten years ago I went to the rifle range to sight in a scope on a P14. There were two other guys in that particular area, elk hunters sighting in. One had a 300 RUM and the other Weatherby in 30-378. One, or maybe both rifles had a muzzle brake. I took myself off the the far end of the shooting positions because those bugger were LOUD. I asked what range they usually hunted at. They sort of looked at each other and said "about 400 yards". Hmm.
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I am in the 30-06 camp. I do not shoot mine anymore. I now use a 7X57 for big game.
I have no use for a magnum anything. The terminal difference between the two cartridges is not enough to offset the recoil of the magnum nor the muzzle blast.
I have seen plenty of deer and elk shot with high powered rifles. I have never noticed that deer or elk shot with a magnum rifle being any more dead than those shot with a standard caliber. They do not drop any faster or walk any less after the shot either.
As for long range shooting, leave to the hucksters who make hunting videos.
If you cannot get within 250 yard you ain’t earned your shot. Hunting isn’t just shooting. Hunting is having the skill and patience to put yourself within an ethical range to make a humane 1 shot harvest with the lowest possible chance of wounding an animal. None of that adds up to shooting extreme distances because there are too many variables that increase exponentially the further the animal is away from you.
As much as the Walter Mitty in us wants to believe it, very few of us are snipers.
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Old 10-19-2021, 12:46 AM
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Suppose you are charged by a 1000 pound grizzly. You're holding a 30-06 loaded with 200 or 220 grain solids.

What will a .338 or even a .375 do that your rifle won't do?
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