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I don’t care for anything magnum for a hunting rifle.
Unless you plan shooting more than 600 yards.
I’ll take my 270, or 06 and be good to 500 + Yup.
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Caribou always seem to die pretty easily if you hit them right. The one (only one) I shot in the Yukon stood there much like a moose would after the lung shot. Is that common for caribou to just stand around?
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Caribou always seem to die pretty easily if you hit them right. The one (only one) I shot in the Yukon stood there much like a moose would after the lung shot. Is that common for caribou to just stand around? Every one I’ve seen shot has done just that. The one I shot on Friday just looked at me, took a couple of steps forward, then flopped over. They’re odd critters too. They’ll take off at the sight of you from 500yds, but you shoot one in a group sometimes and they’ll all stand around looking at ole poor Fred with a hole in his side. After I shot mine the other 15 or so started walking back to the dead one. I could have shot half a dozen of them I think before they cared. Haha!
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I can't help but observe that Sarah Palin aka Caribou Barbie thwocked hers with a .270. But my favorite is Agnes Hailstone apparently annually thwocking hers with an iron sighted M-39 Finn 7.62x53R at what appeared to be in vicinity of 250 yards. Running. Even allowing for a little editorial editing, looks like the tool ain't as important as the mechanic, eh?
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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My Uncle Larry toppled several woodland caribou with his 35 Remington levergun while hunting within Newfoundland. I'm no expert either but I downed two caribou in Saskatchewan with my .308 carbine and they were downed quickly. My impression is that although larger than a big muley, they're no tougher to kill. The local Cree natives hunt caribou with .243 rifles.
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I have never been fond of the .243, and I've owned one for about 40 years now. I took my first couple sheep with it, but then pretty much anything works inside 100 yards. It did smack them both down right there (20 yards, 100 yards), which has not been the case with it on caribou. The .25-06 with 120's and the .270 with 130s have all been bang/flops, every single one of about 30, except one.
I like my .260 much better than .243, and it does great on caribou (including the last two.). Doesn't bang flop them every time, but they don't go far - as said, they either stand there a bit, or run around in circles or back and forth before tipping over.
.243, .260, .25-06, 30-06, .270, and .338WM all work about the same, from my caribou shooting experience, but the two mentioned above have given me more bang flops.
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