Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Muley hunters, retire those .257 Roy's!

Darn that Hoots anyway!
Now I 'need' to go out and buy a 257Roy so I can prove him wrong about killing Muleys with it.

utah: Nice buck! Congrats to your son.....did he use the 25WD(Wind Drifted),270EB(Easily Bested),the 7mmSNP(Short,Not Popular),or the 7mm TH(Too Heavy).......

And the distance.....I mean compared to a 300 WSM,all the above have the trajectory path of a wet noodle

Just curious what caused this buck to expire when,by all logic, he should still be alive

They've scraped the bottom of the barrel with this clown.

Bob,
My guess is that the hunter in question had a hat that said "300WSM"-and the buck kicked the bucket when he saw that!

JG/340: Enough....I need to stop....Can't help myself because the article is really that funny!

JG, throw back those 190+'s you've killed with the 7RM!

Any cartridge invented before 2000 won't work on them(except the 30/06!)

Bob--He used the 25 Wind Drift. We were also carrying a 27 Easily Bested, but had been doing more long range work with the Wind Drift and therefore had more confidence (seemingly misplaced) in it.

But it was one of the rare calm days in southern Idaho, so we dodged a bullet there, while apparently the buck did not.

Well, I did kill 5-6 muley bucks with my completely old fashioned and poor performing Marlin 30-30 when I was a kid. Another thing I try to do when the wind is blowing a little hard, and I'm faced with a 500 yard shot, I just try to get closer.....I know that's earth shattering and ground breaking strategy, but it has worked on occasion.

Nice touch Skane..

Skane/Utah:

That's it....I can't handle anymore!TF!


JG: Yes, getting closed is a novel approach.................I'm going to the range to shoot my 270 EB at 200 yards....now at least I know it's useless beyond that distance...........

Back when I was a defense contractor I often had to write procurement documents that would result in acquisition of the Thing We Really Wanted. I got the feeling I was reading something from that school when I read Hoots' Mule Deer Rifle, and when I got to the part where the Nosler rifle in .300 WSM won I knew what the Rifle He Really Wanted was.

I did like the part where he considered the 6.5 Rem Mag, that is my current choice.

jim

6.5 Rem mag been years since I saw one in the field.But do like the round and wish it was more popular.

Never given the 6.5 Rem mag. much thought, since not many rifles are chambered for same.
Sounds like an interesting cartridge, however.

Wow- and here, all this time, I thought I was using my .257 Wby., with real fast bullets, for mule deer and antelope, and whatever else, was BECAUSE of less wind drift!!

Something about time of flight- a fast projectile moves from A to B in less time than a slower projectile, and thus the external force of wind has less time to push it off course.

I think John Elway told me that once...........

I use my 6.5 Rem like a .257 Roy. 125 gr. NP at 3275. Kills TX deer right now. I don't suppose Hoots would give a hoot about it either.

Docbill-you're running a 125 out of a 6.5 Rem mag @ 3275? How long of tube and what kind of powder?

Thx
Dober

24 in. and RL22. Look at the Nosler manual (6, I think). A 120 goes at 3325 +/-.

That is smoking! I kind of figured that R22 would be the one, and excuse me from asking but you have clocked this load right?

Thx
Dober

Bob don't shoot that 270EB at 201 yards!

I thought that was 301 yards??
(grin)