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<blockquote data-quote="drbobc" data-source="post: 240804" data-attributes="member: 9366"><p>Amen! So much has been written about choosing rifles and calibers that it makes me ill! There are people who swear by rifles and calibers and others who swear at them. I have shoot nearly every rifle imaginable between a 22 and a 30-338 or 30-378 and a few larger yet! I remember vividly buying a 6.5 Gibbs made on a 6.5 Ariska! No matter what I would do, after about 5 shots, the peep sight would fall off! I used loc-tite and almost had the bloody sight welded on the rifle. Problem was I was using a slow burning powder in a rifle with a sub-20 inch barrel. Good thing I was not wearing false teeth becuase I would have lost all of them. reason for the problem -- I was young and taugjht myself handloading and the literature at the time was very scarce. In retrospect, I wish there had been somone around the small town in Pa. that I grew up in that could explain this issue to me. Would have saved me a lot of hassle and eliminated the hatred I developed for Gibbs wildcats. When the Ackley lines started to be available I stayed away from them. Too bad since they are in fact ideal choices. So the moral here is the following: Use what you have properly and the world usually is a good place. Push things inappropriately and you can be in trouble. As to the 300 Wby, it is arguably one of the most popular rifles of all time. Perhaps not as great as the 30-06 / 308 but it has not been a military caliber either. I know for a fact you can find ammo for it nearly everywhere including remote regions of Africa. This is not true of the 300 rum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drbobc, post: 240804, member: 9366"] Amen! So much has been written about choosing rifles and calibers that it makes me ill! There are people who swear by rifles and calibers and others who swear at them. I have shoot nearly every rifle imaginable between a 22 and a 30-338 or 30-378 and a few larger yet! I remember vividly buying a 6.5 Gibbs made on a 6.5 Ariska! No matter what I would do, after about 5 shots, the peep sight would fall off! I used loc-tite and almost had the bloody sight welded on the rifle. Problem was I was using a slow burning powder in a rifle with a sub-20 inch barrel. Good thing I was not wearing false teeth becuase I would have lost all of them. reason for the problem -- I was young and taugjht myself handloading and the literature at the time was very scarce. In retrospect, I wish there had been somone around the small town in Pa. that I grew up in that could explain this issue to me. Would have saved me a lot of hassle and eliminated the hatred I developed for Gibbs wildcats. When the Ackley lines started to be available I stayed away from them. Too bad since they are in fact ideal choices. So the moral here is the following: Use what you have properly and the world usually is a good place. Push things inappropriately and you can be in trouble. As to the 300 Wby, it is arguably one of the most popular rifles of all time. Perhaps not as great as the 30-06 / 308 but it has not been a military caliber either. I know for a fact you can find ammo for it nearly everywhere including remote regions of Africa. This is not true of the 300 rum. [/QUOTE]
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