Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting The 300 Wby Mag for elk- is there anything better?

How many would you like?

If I was given or won a .300 Weatherby I'd trade it for a 7mm mag. There is nothing I wouldn't hunt with a 7 mag and I can't imagine wanting more recoil.

See I knew you were just seeking validation.

Whoooop....there it is

Apparently you are as blind to sarcasm as you are other things.

Oh I get it. You were being sarcastic about wanting a RCM.

No, you don't get it but you prove my point.

I think a synthetic stocked 20" .300RCM would make for a very handy and capable carry rifle. Now that Ruger is offering them for sale, I plan to put a synthetic stock on my laminate stocked 16.1" .308 Ruger Scout as well.

LOL

I was actually being sarcastic because no one in their right mind would buy a gun with virtually no reliable brass/ammo supply in an obscure chambering (thus little resale value) that basically duplicates a hand loaded '06.

But go right ahead if it pleases you.

I wouldn't buy one for someone else or for resale value but rather for its functionality. Brass isn't a concern - there is plenty available and I'd buy a lifetime supply.

A handloaded -06 won't do what a RCM can do in a short barrel config. I can pick up a NIB iron-sighted RCM with a 20" barrel for $499.

Is that all you got?

I'm very disappointed. I was expecting 10 paragraphs minimum.

499 is still waaaay too much for one of those rifles.

The RCM is a boat anchor that was did on arrival. It won't do anything a handloaded 30-06 won't do regardless of barrel length.

Show me a 20" .30-06 that can push a 180g bullet over 3000fps at safe pressures and I'll concede your point.

Also, where can I get an iron-sighted 20" 30-06 that will do that for $499?

The 300 rcm doesn't get over 3000 fps from a Hornady test barrel of unknown length. The last test I saw of one with actually velocity from the 20" tube was in the 2800fps range.
The RCM only has a few more grains capacity than the 30-06 and less than the 300 saum and wsm.
And good luck reaching anywhere near 300 fps with a rcm handloading. It was very difficult for me to do with a 3000 saum and a 24" tube.

Hornady disagrees, but perhaps you know more about their test results than they do.


http://www.hornady.com/store/300-RCM-180-GR-InterBond-Superformance/

With the exception of Hybrid V, Hodgdon lists 2800-2850 max with a 180gr bullet. And that's in a 24" barrel.

I bet the telemarketers and home shopping channel do well with you.

Over lunch I called Tim at Hornady Product Support and asked if the 3040fps was a mistake. He confirmed it.

Whether Hornady used a 20" or 24" barrel length really doesn't make much difference to me, although they claim 20". 2900fps would be fine which is still better than a 20" .30-06 can do. What I want is an iron-sighted carbine length rifle and for $499 the Ruger Hawkeye .300RCM fits the bill better than anything else I know of.

I don't doubt Hornady makes those claims. Whether any loading but a single factory load can repeat those results is another matter entirely.

For all practical purposes, you will probably end up with a rifle that only hold an advantage to a 20" '06 in that it is 1/2" shorter OAL. Disadvantages being an obsolete chambering that nobody else wants when you or your kids want to get rid of it.

If you want a Ruger, find one of the ultralight '06's

Maybe this one is better




688 yard cow Elk Shot --- .243

Personally, for elk, if I were gonna commit to 300 Weatherby levels of recoil, give me my .338 instead.

Hells Bells,just use something in the .270-.375 range and go kill elk.

This is not rocket science.