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Campfire Tracker
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BattleMountain: Again, welcome to the Campfire. Well, now that we seemed to have picked your rifle&cartridge for hunting in Colorado, don't forget your fishing pole and nightcrawlers to catch a few trout after you bag your mulie! Have fun, can't wait to hear how you do. See ya! Rifletom
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Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire Outfitter
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BattleMountain -
My 7mm Rem Mag kills elk with boring reliability. Since 1982 my loads have used 160g Grand Slam bullets at .280 velocities. My buddy does just as well with his and 160g TBBC's.
Any of the bullets you listed will work just fine. My preference would be the 140g TBBC or TSX or 160g AB.
Coyote Hunter - NRA Patriot Life, NRA Whittington Center Life, GOA, DAD - and I VOTE!
No, I'm not a Ruger bigot - just an unabashed fan of their revolvers, M77's and #1's.
A good .30-06 is a 99% solution.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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I find it interesting that nearly all the posters are keying in on the chambering and ignoring the rifle. I'd pick a Win. model 70 over a Remington 700 any day, have had too many bad experience with Remington's lack of Quality Control. I would not choose a single shot as a primary hunting rifle, they are a lot of fun but somewhat limiting.
The .280 offers a theoretical advantage over the .308 for long range hunting but that matters on paper only, not in the field. I have and use both. Dang, how old are you? I mean, I'm almost fifty and have shot all my life. You must really go through guns to have had that many "Quality Control" issues with any brand. (Except Chrysler Corp.  )
The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
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