GatorFarmer
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Sure some people worry about bears...which do actually break into inhabited homes around here...and others worry about UN Blue Helmets, zombies, pr werewolves...but do you know what can happen to a good looking guy like me in Sasquatch country? Shudder.
Thus it is time to get a new Sasquatch rifle. I foolishly sold my Kevlar stocked CZ550 in .416 Rigby and traded away my .45-70. That leaves me with only .223 rifles....like bee stings to a Sasquatch...and in need of a .30 caliber and up rifle. I had been thinking about getting a new .308 or .30-06 rifle, what with general utility and all. Yet none other than Bob Gimlin felt his trust .30-30 would have been useless against Patty.
I see that I can get a decent deal on a Ruger Guide Gun in .338 Winchester Magnum. That seems perhaps a bit light for Sasquatch, big bears and werewolves though I am told it acts as well as Thor s hammer for dropping deer and elk. Both of which will of course kill and eat you and everyone you know and love if given a chance.... To say nothing of the squirrels, who secretly eat meat and are always up to something
But are the somewhat neglected medium bores, of which the .338 Win Mag is perhaps most popular, a good choice for general utility rifle...or either they a sort of neither fish nor fowl and too much for deer and too little for Bigfeet and big bears compared to a specialized stopper of the sort normally associated with big game?
I ask as for a not unreasonable sum I could obtain a Safari model current production Winchester Model 70 in .375 H&H, ie the king of the medium bores and perhaps having a toe in the realm of the stoppers.
Or was it a mistake to abandon to the .41 calibers and up? After all Ruger offers their Guide Gun in the new .416 Ruger and .458s, .45-70s and the like are readily had....
Thus the dilemna...get a scout type or patrol type .308/other .30 for utility AND then get a big bore rifle for unlikely eventuality...or get a single utility type medium bore rifle and be a bit over gunned for most things and risk being under gunned for certain unlikely things?
What say you?
Thus it is time to get a new Sasquatch rifle. I foolishly sold my Kevlar stocked CZ550 in .416 Rigby and traded away my .45-70. That leaves me with only .223 rifles....like bee stings to a Sasquatch...and in need of a .30 caliber and up rifle. I had been thinking about getting a new .308 or .30-06 rifle, what with general utility and all. Yet none other than Bob Gimlin felt his trust .30-30 would have been useless against Patty.
I see that I can get a decent deal on a Ruger Guide Gun in .338 Winchester Magnum. That seems perhaps a bit light for Sasquatch, big bears and werewolves though I am told it acts as well as Thor s hammer for dropping deer and elk. Both of which will of course kill and eat you and everyone you know and love if given a chance.... To say nothing of the squirrels, who secretly eat meat and are always up to something
But are the somewhat neglected medium bores, of which the .338 Win Mag is perhaps most popular, a good choice for general utility rifle...or either they a sort of neither fish nor fowl and too much for deer and too little for Bigfeet and big bears compared to a specialized stopper of the sort normally associated with big game?
I ask as for a not unreasonable sum I could obtain a Safari model current production Winchester Model 70 in .375 H&H, ie the king of the medium bores and perhaps having a toe in the realm of the stoppers.
Or was it a mistake to abandon to the .41 calibers and up? After all Ruger offers their Guide Gun in the new .416 Ruger and .458s, .45-70s and the like are readily had....
Thus the dilemna...get a scout type or patrol type .308/other .30 for utility AND then get a big bore rifle for unlikely eventuality...or get a single utility type medium bore rifle and be a bit over gunned for most things and risk being under gunned for certain unlikely things?
What say you?
