Shawn Linn
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Nate, 7mm limits you as far as bullet selection. hard to get the grain weight you have in the 30 caliber bullet
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clinton andrus
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Not to come off as rude to some of the members that have posted thoughts but good shooting tecnique practice and bullet placement has and will always trump bullet size.
Shawn Linn
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I would agree to a point but you should also have mentioned bullet composition.
clinton andrus
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Shawn your coorect I did forget that, thank you for reminding me.
I like the blastic tip bullets and ttsx bullets the most, no matter the caliber.
Hornadys SST round is a beast when it comes to droping game, Im a high shoulder , spine, neck and head shoot kind of hunter.
Practice shot placement carry a range finder and learn your holdovers at most given ranges and put the bullet in those areas listed no traking and game dies quickly and no tracking.
Bang flop dirt dead.
I like the blastic tip bullets and ttsx bullets the most, no matter the caliber.
Hornadys SST round is a beast when it comes to droping game, Im a high shoulder , spine, neck and head shoot kind of hunter.
Practice shot placement carry a range finder and learn your holdovers at most given ranges and put the bullet in those areas listed no traking and game dies quickly and no tracking.
Bang flop dirt dead.
Vince Pagliaroli
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Bullet size maybe, in big game rounds, but bullet type ALWAYS. For many years some major factories made some horrific factory bullets and ammo. That is when my hunting partners and I went to reloading. Now factory ammo is just as good, if not better than reloading. A good hit with a bad bullet = nasty results. This I have seen this more than once. That's why I believe that butchering your animal, or watching it done is so important. Recovering the bullet, or it's parts (not good) if possible, studying the trauma and damage to the animal you kill tells the tale.
Any head shot on most big game is Very Unwise (I learned this the hard way, after being told so by my mentor). Sooner or later, you WILL shoot a animals jaw off, and not kill it. God willing you will be able to track the animal and kill it, as I did. If not it will die a terrible death.
We all want the animal BLAM-DEAD ON THE GROUND. (Some of today's ammo ads even state it, which is CRAP) When you hunt many seasons you know that does not happen all, or most of the time, no matter how hard one works at it.
Hunting with Wolves - by Michael Lukas, in the new Big Game Edition of Gray's, is well worth reading. His statement about "finger on the trigger", is just about as close to perfect as can be stated.
Any head shot on most big game is Very Unwise (I learned this the hard way, after being told so by my mentor). Sooner or later, you WILL shoot a animals jaw off, and not kill it. God willing you will be able to track the animal and kill it, as I did. If not it will die a terrible death.
We all want the animal BLAM-DEAD ON THE GROUND. (Some of today's ammo ads even state it, which is CRAP) When you hunt many seasons you know that does not happen all, or most of the time, no matter how hard one works at it.
Hunting with Wolves - by Michael Lukas, in the new Big Game Edition of Gray's, is well worth reading. His statement about "finger on the trigger", is just about as close to perfect as can be stated.
Vince Pagliaroli
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6.5mm is a very good choice indeed for what you hunt. A 25-06 for a deadly "Far Reacher", hopefully will be my next deer rifle. A man has gotta dream and the hilly fields here are very large. Someday maybe antelope and deer out west...
Tom Scholberg
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Another vote for Nosler Partitions, never had one fail. Hit a whitetail in the spine with a Ballistic Tip and lost a bunch of chops. Shot the rest of them up at paper.