What is your favorite caliber?
02-07-2007, 05:38 PM
#21
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Florida
Posts: 813
RE: What is your favorite caliber?
ORIGINAL: ShatoDavis
The 270 crowd needs to shut up! I'm sick of your arguments. SHUT UP! He wants something other than a 270. So don't try to convince him that he's wrong. EITHER MAKE A SUGESTION OTHER THAN 270, OR SHUT THE HELL UP!
As a matter of fact I know of several people that think the 270 is an inferior deer cartridge. They don't trust it to shoot a whitetail. I'm not saying they're right, but prove them wrong. They've lost deer while using the 270 and opted back to their 30-06's.
Now that I got that of my chest....... 338 win, 300 win, 7mm Mag, & 300 ultra would all be excellent choices. I personally carry a 338 win elk hunting and have had excellent results
ORIGINAL: Riffer
I think that my 270 is probly to light for what I'm after so what would you guys get?
I think that my 270 is probly to light for what I'm after so what would you guys get?
As a matter of fact I know of several people that think the 270 is an inferior deer cartridge. They don't trust it to shoot a whitetail. I'm not saying they're right, but prove them wrong. They've lost deer while using the 270 and opted back to their 30-06's.
Now that I got that of my chest....... 338 win, 300 win, 7mm Mag, & 300 ultra would all be excellent choices. I personally carry a 338 win elk hunting and have had excellent results
& you're right. Now that I really think about it, I think that he should step it up to a 416 Rigby. Nothing like fresh ground Elk scraped up off of the ground...mmmmmmmm
02-08-2007, 01:51 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 4,264
RE: What is your favorite caliber?
I personally think the .270 is fine for what you're looking at, just use something bigger than a 130 grain bullet.
I have a .308, and a 180 grain .308 is more than capable of taking down an elk or moose any day.
Now if you're going for Grizzly, that's going to need a rediculously huge gun, IMO, 'cause I read thishunting article, and they said that this guy shot a Kamchatkagrizzly 4 times with a .340 Weatherby, and it was on the fourth shot that it finally started slowing down, and all of the shots wereshoulder and one lung shot!
I have a .308, and a 180 grain .308 is more than capable of taking down an elk or moose any day.
Now if you're going for Grizzly, that's going to need a rediculously huge gun, IMO, 'cause I read thishunting article, and they said that this guy shot a Kamchatkagrizzly 4 times with a .340 Weatherby, and it was on the fourth shot that it finally started slowing down, and all of the shots wereshoulder and one lung shot!
02-08-2007, 03:20 PM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Wright, WY
Posts: 1,281
RE: What is your favorite caliber?
Shato,
Any cartirdge of any caliber will loose animals, I have seen an antelope shot with a 7mm run off. A deer with a 300 win mag run off and it won't be the last time. Some people just don't get it!
Common sense - I won't even go there.
Any cartirdge of any caliber will loose animals, I have seen an antelope shot with a 7mm run off. A deer with a 300 win mag run off and it won't be the last time. Some people just don't get it!
Common sense - I won't even go there.
02-08-2007, 04:56 PM
#28
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Texas Gulf Coast
Posts: 27
RE: What is your favorite caliber?
I just cant resist getting in on this one..........
I fully believe that you owe the animal much respect, and that would include making a clean kill. If stepping up the horsepower increases the odds of a clean kill I will always be on that side of the debate.
I shoot a .300 Weatherby, A Ruger # 1 and a Wby MK V synthetic. 150gr for whitetail and hogs and 180gr for larger.
and besides ithas to be better, it costs more.
I fully believe that you owe the animal much respect, and that would include making a clean kill. If stepping up the horsepower increases the odds of a clean kill I will always be on that side of the debate.
I shoot a .300 Weatherby, A Ruger # 1 and a Wby MK V synthetic. 150gr for whitetail and hogs and 180gr for larger.
and besides ithas to be better, it costs more.
02-08-2007, 06:54 PM
#29
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Huntin' In Colorado
Posts: 2,910
RE: What is your favorite caliber?
I'm a good shot, but not an expert. I don't shoot 1/2 inch patterens like I know some of you guys can. If my shot wasn't perfect, if I was off just a little, would I rather have my slighty marginal shot with a 270 or my 300rum. Hum, let me think..... As much as everyone talks about shot placement and practice, perfect shots do not happen everytime. Animals move, hunters nerves affect them, scopes get knocked off a little whenthey slip and fall, a million and one things can happen. Given the same exact senario, same exact shot, perfect or marginal,you can't tell methat the 270 is going to do the job as good as a larger caliber or a magnum. You guys keep talking about shot placement, hell with the right shot placement you can drop a grizzley with a 22. That sure as hell don't mean I'm gonna hunt them with one!
02-09-2007, 09:04 AM
#30
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Prince George, BC
Posts: 209
RE: What is your favorite caliber?
hell with the right shot placement you can drop a grizzley with a 22.
wouldnt the lead bullet just bounce off the skin, you might as well throw scrunched up paper balls at him to while your at it.