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7mm STW

7STW here too.

7STW and a 300 RUM, both are fast, flat and accurate and will handle any need at any "reasonable" distance. STW is in a Savage and the RUM is in a Rem 700.

338 Allen Mag
30-338Lapua improved
7WSM
6.5 WSM
243AI
22x47Lapua

7mm STW 168 gr JLK VLDs at 3200 fps
30-378 Wby 200 gr Accubonds at 3200 fps
338 RUM 225 gr Accubonds at 3050 fps

284 win with 180 Berger. Another 284 with 168 Berger, 260 with 142 Sierra ,7stw with 160 accubond,,7ultra mag with 175 Sierra, 300win with 200accubond, 30-378 with 200 accubond, 338-378 with 250 accubond and 300 Sierra, Truth is almost anything with correct twist and heavy bullets. Got to love our sport!!! Were keeping the industry hopping!

Forgot to mention , 243AI, 6.5 creedmor, 7mm Weatherby, 280 ackley, 7mm rem , 7mm Masburn, and the good old 270

Now.... there is a guy who thinks with an open mind...

From small critters up to big critters:

6MM Ackley, AKA 244 Remington Ackley/ 6mm-257 Ackley (varmints)
6.5-'06 Ackley (deer)
7STW (Elk)
338-'06 Ackley (Big dangerous stuff)

Regards, Rick.

I bought a heavy barrelled 6mm rem to learn with, as of yet I haven't progressed past it. I'm not shooting a live things though if that makes a difference.

"Really accurate" is key, IMHO, especially with high end turret scopes available today. My favorite is a custom pre-64 M-70 with 26" Krieger sporter in 6.5-284. It wears a Swaro Z5 3.5-18x44 BT with Outdoorsmans turret calibrated to my best load of Vv 165 pushing a 140 gr. SST at 2,950 fps. It does about the same with the 140 VLD. It will shoot 4 1/2" at 600 yds.

DF

Nice....

Top rifle, now wearing a different scope. That one is a Swaro 6-18x50 with TDS reticle. It did good, but I found that with that set up the scope had to be at full power (18X) for the TDS to be accurate. That proved awkward in NM, making a 385 yds shot with Harris bipod, sitting. I traded scopes and went another direction. With the Z5 turret, range and power are now independent variables, much easier to manage, IMHO.

The gun has Borden's Bumps on the bolt, action was blue printed and it has a Jewell trigger. I pillared, glassed, torqued and free floating the barreled action into a Jon Sundra, Boyd laminated stock. Not a McM, but it works pretty well.

The bottom rifle, now wearing a Swaro Z3 4-12x50 BT with Outdoorsmans turret is an Ed Brown Damara in .300 Win Mag. It's another good long range gun, shooting 180 gr. NBT's at 3,050 fps with RL-22 into very tight groups, almost as accurate as the 6.5-284. Ed Brown used Shilen barrels, McM light fill stocks, Jewell triggers and his own control feed proprietary 704 action. I write in past tense, as he no longer makes these fine rifles, concentrating on pistols.

The 180 gr. NBT's have the same B.C. and POI as 180 gr. NAB's. I can swap bullets for the type game I'm going to shoot. The M-70 all up is around 9 pounds, 7 ounces, the Damara is a bit over 8 pounds as shown.

DF

20/50 Anzio.

Gunner

.270 Win and a Leupold 2.5x8 with turrets.

That's about all the rifle I care to burden myself with.
I'm not fond of long, heavy rifles nor Hubble rifle scopes...JMO
I have a great range where we can shoot an honest 500 yards and that's as far as I would ever consider shooting at a game animal.
Game here, for me, is blacktail bucks and cow elk ( I bowhunt for bulls ).
I'll do whatever I can to cut the range to <300, before considering a shot.

Yes, 308 is the most versatile calibre, with bullet weights from 102 Gr(Sako Range), up to 220Gr., generally 150gr to 168grs. 1)Get the best Rifle you can affford,2) buy a copy of Jeff Cooper's The Art of the Rifle,(read, study, inwardly digest it) and 3)find out what your Barrel performs best with and stay with it, then it's just plenty of practice with a lot of fun!

Nice taste in fine arms.....very nice.

7mm for me.
Either a custom 7mm SAUM or 7mm Dakota center-grip XP-100

I do apologise for jumping in from the side. However, about 7 years ago I had the distinct privelige of hunting with a US sniper fresh from Afghanistan. Walking down a dry river bed we saw some monkeys way down yonder. Mark (not his real name) said: May I shoot one? I said: If you hit it, I'll pay for it. He said: it's about 600 yards and Mike said (with the range finder) it's 617 yards. Mark took the shot off-hand and we found blood!! I paid for the monkey no contest. Man I liked the 308 from then on.