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6.5x284 or 338 win mag?
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<blockquote data-quote="cwinner" data-source="post: 651904" data-attributes="member: 17315"><p>I'll agree with you on this one, I have been lucky enough to live in NM for 41 of my 41 years and outfitting / guiding since 1991, I know unit 12 quite well and propbably know his outfitter.....I'll bet that 300-400 yds will be on the longer range of a realistic shot.....last fall we took 18 bulls with everything from a 308 to 33-378 wby's, including one hunter with the new 230gr Berger OTM out of a 300 win mag. </p><p> </p><p>His question was not about the best hunting rifle or field conditions it was about a 2.6-284 with 140gr berger VLD's versus any bullet out of a .338, given those 2 choices which would you use on a 1/4 away shot at a 350"+ Bull ( do they get that big on public land in Colorado nowdays?) at 300-400yds?</p><p> </p><p>BTW, I have my grandfathers Savage 99 in my gunsafe chambered in the classic 300 and rest assured it has taken plenty of deer & elk, but the technology nowdays allows us to make shots that our grandfathers thought were impossible! I remember back in the mid 1980's I just got my first 30-06 and was thinking I could shoot across one of our section traps and hit a coyote, I knew nothing of ballistics or drop charts at the time and remember my grandpa telling me it was impossible, I wish he was here last weekend to see my 30-378 put 3 of 5 shots on a 24"x36" steel plate at 1760 ydsgun)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwinner, post: 651904, member: 17315"] I'll agree with you on this one, I have been lucky enough to live in NM for 41 of my 41 years and outfitting / guiding since 1991, I know unit 12 quite well and propbably know his outfitter.....I'll bet that 300-400 yds will be on the longer range of a realistic shot.....last fall we took 18 bulls with everything from a 308 to 33-378 wby's, including one hunter with the new 230gr Berger OTM out of a 300 win mag. His question was not about the best hunting rifle or field conditions it was about a 2.6-284 with 140gr berger VLD's versus any bullet out of a .338, given those 2 choices which would you use on a 1/4 away shot at a 350"+ Bull ( do they get that big on public land in Colorado nowdays?) at 300-400yds? BTW, I have my grandfathers Savage 99 in my gunsafe chambered in the classic 300 and rest assured it has taken plenty of deer & elk, but the technology nowdays allows us to make shots that our grandfathers thought were impossible! I remember back in the mid 1980's I just got my first 30-06 and was thinking I could shoot across one of our section traps and hit a coyote, I knew nothing of ballistics or drop charts at the time and remember my grandpa telling me it was impossible, I wish he was here last weekend to see my 30-378 put 3 of 5 shots on a 24"x36" steel plate at 1760 ydsgun) [/QUOTE]
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