Originally Posted by hanco
I like them, have 5 or 6. You get a lot of performance without much recoil. If I had to get down to one deer cartridge, I’d pick a 7 Rem Mag.

We have a very different perspective. I have one in a longer custom barrel Savage. As i recall she kicked like a mule. Have not shot that rifle for years.

I like light weight rifles & seem to only hunt midwest Whitetail deer, where 300 lbs live weight would be a big deer. In the last decade I have gravitated to the 6.5mm Grendel & more recently the 6mm ARC.
The little CZ 527 has been doing well inside of 300 yards for my use. Then I grew up with the 6mm Remington. I am in the camp that the 6mm Rem does great though burns more powder than really needed.

Last years deer was my nicest deer yet. A 160 class tall 4x4 5 ish year old brute. He was taken at a laser ranged 254 yards.
https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/243-is-to-large-wink.288173/

This young girl seems to do well with a 6mm Arc as well.




Don't really need a sledge hammer for finish nail work.

Last edited by Hunterapp; 09/02/22.
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