Author Topic: Need assistance with selecting a hunting rifle (Read 3118 times)

txmx · « **Reply #90 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:18:19 PM »

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Originally posted by MoRphEuS

I say Winchester, Kimber, Remington, Savage ect all ditch all of their lines and produce 460s and 300mags. This way you can have 1 gun that will destroy anything it hits.

If your shooting anything bigger than a mule deer ! then yeah .
I would use a 308 on a mulie A 308 norma I have used a few times.

But On something like a moose and IF I could not engage any closer than 500yds than I would want atleast a winn 300 mag.

00-200 yds well watermelon just bout any 30 cal with the right load should do the trick.

Morpheus · « **Reply #91 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:20:17 PM »

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Originally posted by txmx
Here is just a short list of the 30 cal rounds that are 308 in diameter.

30 BR Remington=308 dia
30-30 winchester=308 dia
30-40 Krag=308 dia
300 savage=308 dia
30-06=308 dia
300 remingtom= 308 dia
300 winchester mag=308 dia
300 H&H mag=308 dia
30-338=380 dia
308 Norma= 308 dia
300 weatherby mag=308 dia
30-378 weatherby mag=308 dia

I can go on and on but I am now bored and have writers cramp.

But you see a pattern here

And our point is?

Morpheus · « **Reply #92 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:23:00 PM »

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But On something like a moose and IF I could not engage any closer than 500yds than I would want atleast a winn 300 mag.

Did you read a word of what I wrote? I mean really read it all??

Here let me help you out so you dont have to dig too deaply.

Posted by me, 6 or 7 posts ago.

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Either of the two, the 45-70 govt or the 444 Marlin are fine choices given the right shots. If you get shots beyond 150 yards I would start thinking of something a little more flat shooting

txmx · « **Reply #93 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:24:10 PM »

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Originally posted by MoRphEuS
You cannot define the "best hunting round". Its imposible. One day you are hunting for white tail and the next you are on a hunt in alaska for brown bear. So what? You want to start shooting everything you hunt with belted mags? Each gun has its own purpose. Thats why I have many. Same with handguns.

OMG now you are back tracking and saying the same dam thing I was trying to say aout 10 posts ago!

DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT I WAS SAYING? ABOUT A LITTLE FACTOR CALLED "SHOT PLACEMENT"???

Well ok you wanna get down and dirty then away we go.

Please feel free to post anything to back up you claims .
I posted my range report from the army its there in black and white.

You post a pic of a bull trophy hanging in some bar or something lOL.
Yeah ok:aok

I quess I could go down to outdoor pro shops and take a pic of that huge bear they goy stuffed and say yeah I bagged this one up in moose fart alaska with one shot from my trusty 9mm berretta.
The pesky critter raided our camp and it was either him or me

Morpheus · « **Reply #94 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:29:48 PM »

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You post a pic of a bull trophy hanging in some bar or something lOL.

LOL nah it was actually taken after it was hung back up in our newest store after being cleaned at the taxidermist. No bar here. Sorry

And no one here is getting down and dirty. But you seem to feel the need to. Why? Who knows. Maybe thats just the way you are. I'd like to think not.

I dont know where you live but if its anywhere near me you can stop by and see my other trophies. Cubeta's Feild and Stream, Middlefield CT, 157 Meriden Rd, Rout 66. If you do stop by ask for me (Jeff) I'll be more than happy to give you a tour.

txmx · « **Reply #95 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:38:43 PM »

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Originally posted by MoRphEuS

I dont know where you live but if its anywhere near me you can stop by and see my other trophies. Cubeta's Feild and Stream, Middlefield CT, 157 Meriden Rd, Rout 66. If you do stop by ask for me (Jeff) I'll be more than happy to give you a tour.

Well I live in Murphy Tx so If YOU are ever in town you can stop buy and I will show you
my stamp collection LOL.

PS Ya got a web site?

Morpheus · « **Reply #96 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:45:52 PM »

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PS Ya got a web site?

Not as of yet. Its in the works. I'd post some more pictures but you will probably twist them into being "fakes" as you did with my first.

txmx · « **Reply #97 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:52:05 PM »

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Originally posted by MoRphEuS
Not as of yet. Its in the works. I'd post some more pictures but you will probably twist them into being "fakes" as you did with my first.

Well you gotta admit that a trophy hanging over what looks like a firplace on a public place looks suspect

But I will take your word for It Mainly because I of all people know what its like to be called a lier when the accusers have no proof.
~~nice bull.~~

Morpheus · « **Reply #98 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:54:21 PM »

lol well it sure as hell itsn't a bar. No bar i know has an Orvis Fly Fishing sign hanging from its ceiling. And with part of a gun rack in view I think it pretty much rules out a bar.

Think what you will tho

Morpheus · « **Reply #99 on:** May 23, 2004, 05:02:20 PM »

Just for my own amusment here is another pic of the "bar" at a differnent angle.

VOR · « **Reply #100 on:** May 23, 2004, 05:11:32 PM »

Isn't that the Bass Pro Shop?

Shuckins · « **Reply #101 on:** May 23, 2004, 05:11:47 PM »

Morph,

Your avatar is giving me a headache...

Personally, I believe velocity ruins more meat than bullet diameter or sectional density.

Cowboy at our camp several years back used to hunt whitetails with 300 Winchester Magnum handloaded with 130 grain hollowpoints. That slug had to be traveling dem near 4000 fps. The meat damage it caused on a small four-point buck was horrendous...both sets of ribs, off front shoulder, backstrap and part of ham were useless.

That kind of performance isn't needed. A 180 grain slug would have been far preferable.

Regards, Shuckins/Leggern

txmx · « **Reply #102 on:** May 23, 2004, 05:18:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Shuckins

That kind of performance isn't needed. A 180 grain slug would have been far preferable.

Regards, Shuckins/Leggern

LOL a smaller cal would have been in order on a white tail deer fer cryin out loud LOL.

I doubt you could load a win 300 mag to do little damge on the small of an animal.

Morpheus · « **Reply #103 on:** May 23, 2004, 05:20:18 PM »

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Originally posted by VOR
Isn't that the Bass Pro Shop?

hehe no. The name is Cubeta's. It may look like some other store you've been to. I went nuts a month or so back taking pics for some reason. I get in odd moods like that. So I have quite a few more pics for ya. I think its fun to look at pics hehe. Weird the things you miss when its in real life.

txmx · « **Reply #104 on:** May 23, 2004, 05:22:14 PM »

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Originally posted by VOR
Isn't that the Bass Pro Shop?