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An old friend of mine, when I wore a young mans clothes, used a 250 Savage in a 99. He never needed more power or another shot for the most part. Now I'm within a couple of years of his age then. Be Well, RZ. Rusty, "Need" is not the subject of this thread. We, even oldsters shoot what we like. Be well, jwall
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I have a 300 Win Mag Winchester XPR that shoots 1/2" with 165 Accubond over a reduced 58 gr. load of 4064. Mag-na-ported so kicks less than my 6.5PRC. This has become a favorite to shoot and not bad to carry. I'm thinking about 2900 out of my 26" bbl. Which seems confirmed by my Strelok + ballistic app and shooting out to 600 yds. Maybe not your cup of tea but damn this thing shoots. Oh, I'm 71 and 5'7" 140 lbs and do 300 sit-ups and other exercise every other day. If you enjoy it find a way to do it! Mac
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At 67, I’m definitely in the less is more crowd. I don’t own any magnums anymore and won’t. I just don’t see the need. I find that I enjoy shooting the mild cartridges a lot and shoot them well because of that...... I now carry a Kimber Hunter in 6.5 CM with a SWFA 3x9 on deck - kind of an odd pairing. Light rifle, heavy-ish scope. But the pairing works out very well. I hunt blacktail deer and cascade elk mostly, with an occasional antelope tossed in. It’s become my “lucky” rifle with several elk and really nice blacktails to its credit. The milder stuff works just fine, for me......ymmv
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At 67, I’m definitely in the less is more crowd. I don’t own any magnums anymore and won’t. I just don’t see the need. I find that I enjoy shooting the mild cartridges a lot and shoot them well because of that...... I now carry a Kimber Hunter in 6.5 CM with a SWFA 3x9 on deck - kind of an odd pairing. Light rifle, heavy-ish scope. But the pairing works out very well. I hunt blacktail deer and cascade elk mostly, with an occasional antelope tossed in. It’s become my “lucky” rifle with several elk and really nice blacktails to its credit. The milder stuff works just fine, for me......ymmv
Which bullet for elk in your 6.5 Creedmoor?
What could be a sadder way to end a life than to die having never hunted with great dogs, good friends and your family?
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At 67, I’m definitely in the less is more crowd. I don’t own any magnums anymore and won’t. I just don’t see the need. I find that I enjoy shooting the mild cartridges a lot and shoot them well because of that...... I now carry a Kimber Hunter in 6.5 CM with a SWFA 3x9 on deck - kind of an odd pairing. Light rifle, heavy-ish scope. But the pairing works out very well. I hunt blacktail deer and cascade elk mostly, with an occasional antelope tossed in. It’s become my “lucky” rifle with several elk and really nice blacktails to its credit. The milder stuff works just fine, for me......ymmv
Which bullet for elk in your 6.5 Creedmoor? 140 gr Federal Fusion on 5 cow elk. 129 Hornady IL on deer. I killed two big cow elk with the 129 IL from a Browning Low Wall .260. Circumstances....... where and how you hunt plays a roll in cartridge and bullet choices.
BT53 "Where do they find young men like this?" Reporter Savidge, Iraq Elk, it's what's for dinner....
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found a want for a different type of rifle? As in switching from bolts to levers or autos? Not feeling a want for lever or auto, but do like some features of a Browning X bolt hells canyon. The only thing holding me back from buying is their weird angular trigger guard and gold trigger, why would they ruin such an otherwise great rifle?
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Not feeling a want for lever or auto, but do like some features of a Browning X bolt hells canyon. The only thing holding me back from buying is their weird angular trigger guard and gold trigger, why would they ruin such an otherwise great rifle?
Maybe personnel in Q & D dept. ?
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Yeah, some stylist dept. exec. that may not even hunt, and I'm age gapped with him.
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I put together an M700 7-08 in 2007 for local deer and out of state trophy hunts. I upgraded the scope and moved from a Mcmillan mountain hunter to a fugly game hunter.
After 13 years of boringly good performance I've tried to improve with an 06. I cant shoot the 06 as well so the 7-08 will likely stay with me till I hang my boots up
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72 here. The 4 rifles I carry most weigh 6.5-7 lbs. Win 94, 30-30 open sights is the lightest. It is my walk-about carry.
725 in .260, and 700 in 243 are next lightest, The RU77 30-06 ("Stub") cut down to carbine is the heaviest at just under 7 lbs. All are scoped.
I'm not adverse to carrying (just not too far!) a near 10 lb RU77 in .338WM, or the 11 lb, heavy barreled M98 in 30-06 (used this one last year on a walk-in caribou hunt- but it was only about 1 1/2 miles uphill..... ). The new to me nearly 8 lb XTR in 7x57 got the nod this year, along with the 94 (carried one day), the .260 for my son, and Stub for my wife.
Undecided for next year, but probably the '94, the "featherweight" XTR, Stub, and either the '98 or the .338. I haven't killed anything with the '94 since 1966, or the .338 in about 15 years. They need their chance again.
And we will likely be using a couple ATV's on the caribou hunt, and not more than 1/2 mile from the boat on a moose hunt if plans come together, so weight isn't really an issue. If I was backpacking in a 2-10 miles, it would be the .260.
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