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The 22-6mm and the 6mm-06 both prick my interest.

I don't have enuff vermin for any varmint rifle but I think the 22-6mm would be hot stuff.

If going .473" L/A,I'd cut to the [bleep] chase and simply go 6-06. The Tikka is no prize,but it's viable in said platform,less fanfare. You could punch a Tikka 243Win(1-10" in their infinite "wisdom") and punch it 6-06AI or 6-284,as both would clean up their OEM mess. A true 10" with that velocity increase,will letcha' pinwheel 105'Max's...as I've threaded that needle in both 6mmAI and 6-284. Hint.

Glad I could provide you with some entertainment there. I think I did mention something in my posts here from time to time about folks who are so small minded and insecure as to have to laugh at or demean others to feel good. It does not look good or wear well on the person laughing or demeaning.

Here is an idea for us all:

How about if we just talk about the various cartridges and rifles (and barrels and twists and stocks and triggers)that are brought up here and share OUR opinions and experiences and viewpoints, and let the OP and other readers make up their minds about the value of each post and view/opinion without stooping so low as to call another person names whose views are different?

It is a great way to live and makes a conversation board like this one immensely more fun for everyone.

My Mausers and lower BC but well constructed bullets have worked quite well for me, no pretend needed:





Of course the slower, High BC and awsome sectional density of some projectiles cannot be argued as to effectiveness,



On somewhat smaller animals, massive doses of impact velocity can work, too (My dad a few years ago with me on Safari. 7mm RemMag, 120gr TSX, non vitals hit but dead right there with no tracking needed:


I have to admit here though, that I have been known - where legal - to use bait to lure animals in close so that I could reach them with my inferior ultra high speed bullets and such. Bait here being my Clark Cable looks and a piece of toast


Too bad this guy didn't know that a 300 UltraMag was vastly inferior to a 308 for cross canyon shots on elk, had he known he might still be alive today:



Had this little guy known I was using an ultrafast, long barreled 257WBY with low BC Barnes bullets, rather than a 25/08 or 257 Roberts twisted 1 in 7, he probably would have just shrugged off the puny bullet I was using and laughingly walked on after the does he was chasin

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Oh yeah, apx 2,000lbs worth of Eland, not aware that a 308 was the proper medicine over my 300 Ultra on this long shot taken
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And who would have known, before the internet, that a 300 Ultra would work so well on smaller creatures, too!

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[img]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/safariman416/wildebeastbull.jpg[/img]

Have to admit, however, that I have been know to slum a push feed rifle from time to time. Wish I had this one back:

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My point to all of this is....

We and our opinions are all moulded and made by our own particular places hunted, where we live, how we hunt, what we hunt for and some other external factors sometimes like nostalgia, memories, adding some style to a hunt maybe with a cool old Model 71 or 99 etc. Whatever caused these opinions to be formed, - and I have admitted before that if I lived and hunted SE AK year 'round like some here do I would likely be as fond of plastic and stainless as they are - EACH of our opinions and viewpoints are as valid as they need to be for us. And, they all have usefullness and weight, given to them by the OP's and readers here and hopefully based upon the real and actual experiences of the poster or his credentials.

No need for pretending, but there should be a modicum of decorum, manners and respect shown to each other here.

I do not call names or demean others, merely share a differing view or point, based upon the facts as I know or see them and have experienced them.

My preferences and experiences are different form some folks, but are based in real world events and many years with many hunts and varmint shooting excursions.

As I said before, use what you like that works, and have FUN in so doing!

And, talking down to another human being here or othersiwse is a huge reflection on the charachter (or lack thereof) of the person posting the laughs or put downs than it is of the person being called whatever name. We make ourself look quite the fool by trying to do that to others. THAT, really IS quite simple and an iron clad truth to take home and put n the bank.

Great pics Safariman. The Elephant is the trump card though. Not many can show a pic of them posing with Tembo.

Yeah,Safarimans Africa pics are worth drooling over.

Like to go back and get an Elephant,Cape buffalo and Leopard,along with Eland and a smatterin' of various species.

Forgot to add,would love to get a bull elk like that!

Respectable loonies buy what they're drooling for, and couldn't GAF what the comparison numbers look like. Nothing rational about it.

Thank you! Another long, hard fair chase hunt that finally went my way after several tries. Since shooting that bull and getting the mount up, I am now and forever more a meat hunter when it comes to Elk. Cow elk are just SO fine eatin! No room or need for another big bull. He was my one elk that I wanted, as was the nice Mule Deer in the pic. With them on my walls, I now shoot eatin deer and such. Took many years and miles to find each.

I hope you get one like that, or better, as well.

On both, after so many miles afoot, driving and flying, too many cold, cold mornings, and only one opportunity to take the beast of my dreams I was not ABOUT to trust the shot (both at some distance) to a small rifle, regardless of twist, BC etc. I wanted put 'em down NOW power. Super high velocity Barnes TSX's did them in right nicely.

Good luck in your hunts and search!

KchuntShoot,

So now boolits do matter?!?

Laffin'!