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VG; Not a Nick Nolte double...but you aren't the only one to mention that..
Ten years ago, when I WAS younger I bought a Rem 700 Sendero in .300 Win. When all the PDs were shot within ludicrous distance, out came the .300....My shooting pard did the same.
I gotta tell you after about 80-100 rounds through even that heavy .300...it got a little tedious...
The 20 ft.shot was when I had killed a couple at long range ( 500 yds +) and we walked down to the town to do a BDA ( Bullet Damage Assessment)
One hapless PD had to stick his head up 20 ft. away to see what we were doing....
Ingwe

308 Tikka varmint:

.308 Tactical Rifles Inc M40:

Smith .44

Nice coyote!
I saw one last weekend when I was unloading the truck
to head to my bear blind. I wish I would have had a 7mm Magnum with 120 gr Nosler Ballistic Tips. I will next time!
whelennut

Here is a coyote that took a 120 V-Max out of my 7 Rem Mag.

100 grain Sierra out of a 25-06 Sendero at 500 yards.

Bobcat taken with 140 Ballistic Tip from the 7 Rem Mag.

Two feeder destroying coons killed with a 7 Rem Mag and 120 Ballistic Tips.

Two coons knocked off of the feeder with one shot. 25-06 and 100 grain Ballistic Tips.

Diamond back taken with a 40 S&W from a Bretta 96.



Where varmints and nasty critters are concerned, I whack em' with anything I have handy.

Thats the spirit!

My father and his 7mm-08

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Here is my oldest son and his first badger taken with a .223.
He killed it with one shot! He was very excited.
Note the lack of shade trees in South Dakota!
whelennut

Depends..I have used the big bores on lots of stuff, but mostly on targets of oppertunity..

I have shot rock chucks and p-dog with a 25-06 and a 270 but after about a couple of hundred shots you can tell the difference and wish you had your 222 or 223..

Red fox, .308, 180 gr PSP, 100 yards. Emptied him.

I bought a .308 Marlin Express this spring. I can't wait to see what it does to a coyote! Hopefully, I'll be able to take a deer with it also.

This is a varmint hunters rig big bore style!

Here is the fruits of their labor!

These pics have been around for a while. A drug rep that calls on me told me 2-3 years ago the story on this. The young man in the pic was a relative or college friend. They killed all those pigs from a helicopter just west of San Antonio. Not with the pimped out RTV. That's my story and I'm sticking to it..du