Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Just one?....7-08, 6.5, 270, or 308

.243, .257, 6.5 Whatever...

I think everybody oughta have a rifle...

7-08 - all the others will also work, but since you asked.....

Let me give you something to ponder:

Since I am buying ANOTHER 7 mm RM........ how likely do you think it is I'll cave ANYTIME soon? GRIN


Jerry

If you consider the .270 Winchester a heavy kicking cartridge, then it seems you are indeed recoil shy. It’s a great package in a fairly light rifle, with full power factory loads available and bullets suitable for anything in North America (the 160 grain Nosler Partition is a hammer) and a flat trajectory suitable for antelope in the plains. It would get my vote, hands down.

A .22 LR is "The BEST"

Now we know.


Jerry

T1x is going to be the deal.

Never saw that coming about a window licker.

Are you into rim jobs or something?

I have several calibers and haven't noticed that if I do my part that one kills more DEAD than the others but I do have one rifle that fits me well, has a nice slender stock and will flat out shoot and it's a 280 Remington CDL. When I hunt fields I carry it topped with a Leupold Boone & Crockett reticle that is spot on out to 500 yds.

I have had .270's since 1967. I could not be without one of these, although I do like other chamberings if it had to be just one it would have to be a .270 Win. I almost feel that way about 7RM, 300 WSM

Why would any self respecting rifle slut have only one of each of the afore-mentioned?

Quien Sabe?

GWB

7mm/08, 140 grain Nosler Partition. 43 grains of Varget. CCI BR2 primer. Dead creatures of all shapes and sizes. Freezer full.

.270 Winchester,130 grain Nosler Partitions,60 grains H-4831,CCI 250 Mag primer. Dead critters of all shapes and sizes.

It was worth the effort.

Jerry

Same here, EXCEPT 300 Win Mag.

Jerry

43 gr powder vs 60 gr? Not even close. Both are great cartridges, but less powder, blast, recoil is hard to argue with.

The picture jackass. Just a better ‘explanation’ than I figured to get around here. LOL

Interesting thread, reminds me of JOC in the 70s in Sports Afield.....all the mental m....

JPro - had a 700 BDL SS long ago, had it chopped from 24 to 21, and another 700V the same. Both shot 2960 with 45/Varget....

I see JOC fans using 130s or 150s, ran several JOC in the past, 150 NBT always looked like an ICBM and did great, tighter groups....the NPT 150 is a killer as well.

I've since looked at the 140 AB in the JOC, like the 7-OUGHT 8, as a great choice. Always felt why handicap BC/SD with a 130 like a 210 vs 225 in 338.

No doubt to 400 it's moot. Anyone running 140s in the JOC? To the 6.5G shooter, look at the 100 TTSX, and 100/120 NBTs.

My longest WT deer was a mere 400 LRF/YD. 6BR/105/2850.........golf ball exit, struggled to go 20 yds. SO.......all the math........most are often overgunned on deer/hogs, and the like, if you can be that..........and when it comes to blast and recoil, I think you can have too much.

Enjoy your flavors fellow hunters. The Journey searching and researching is the fun. Then when you put meat in the crosshairs, its just a formality. All rounds work.

FWIW, my research went like this, 7RM, 243, 7/08, 270, 6.5x55, 6.5-308, 6BR, 260, 7BR, 338-06, 357, 6.5x47, 6.5 CM.............well you get the point. Btw, several of each of those in the past, NEVER lost an animal fairly hit. Always changed scopes, bullets, etc. to learn more......and they all simply worked, when I had them dialed in, knew the limits of the bullets - and placed them accordingly. Whatever you run, learn it, practice like you intend to hunt it, all will be fine.

2800 fps or 3100 fps,I'd would go with 3100 fps.