I think this is an often overlooked niche in hunting guns.
Big bores
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Short light handy rifles
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Light for caliber bullets pushed fast (lighter TTSX bullets especially)
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Plenty of penetration and expansion at moderate ranges. Big Holes. Good Penetration. Good Blood. Quick Death.
I have a ton of 200 TTSX for my Whelen project... Just hope it likes them... thinking of cutting it back to the 19” range, my .338 federal is 17” and I Looooove it, hope to get a good 160 gr. Load worked up by next season.
Mjduct
My 35 Whelen shoots 200 grain T-TSX MOA with 60 gr. of RL15.
My Whelen is a great gun but for years I started wanted a short barrel (17.5 to 18.5) 358 light weight brush gun. I started this thread after reading Luke Moffat's story about his "uberlight" 16.25 inch barreled Montana 358 that he has hunted with the past several years. His project ended up under 4 lb 9 oz scoped pushing 200 gr TSX at 2600.
I have the Montana donor now so time to start sourcing the other parts.
Here is the link to that story
http://www.rokslide.com/uberlight-kimber-rifle-build/
