Grizzly60
Well-Known Member
If you just wanting a new rifle,, go with the 300PRC. You won't regret it. With the brake they are sweet to shoot.
1650 ft # with 7 prc vs 1850 ft # with 300wm.I have been thinking 7PRC recently but from what I read the ballistics under 800 just isn't there compared to the 300wm. I honestly hope my "hunting" skills can get me within 800 yards of any animal I am after.
EXACTLY!Good on you! However, let us not forget why @Len Backus started LRH in the first place.
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I'm not criticizing anyone or their opinion …I'm certainly not here to win any arguments or demonstrate any greater experience or knowledge.Well ill call BS on that opinion also.
We obviously live in different worlds here.
One being dream world and the other being real world.
As for burning out barrels on hunting guns, most never get shot enough for that to happen.
Many guys use other guns with smaller cartridges like 308s for practicing.
The hunting guns are used for hunting, with only a few rounds shot each year for checking zero etc.
Do you actually know what a whitetail buck is very apt to do with a very close first round miss?
Well ill tell you what they are very apt to do on a very close first round miss.
They are very apt to just lean down and smell where the bullet hit.
The idea that its absolutely necessary to make first round hits is simply wrong to put it mildly.
Indicating that those who spew that type information are in fact clueless about what the real facts are.
Nobody will criticize you for taking advantage of what you just learned with a first round miss, and killing them on the second or even the third shot.
Thats real world, ask anybody who has actually been there and watched it actually happen.
Friend, it dosent take much skill to find a good place to set yourself up for glassing where you can cover a large area.I have been thinking 7PRC recently but from what I read the ballistics under 800 just isn't there compared to the 300wm. I honestly hope my "hunting" skills can get me within 800 yards of any animal I am after.
The op said when he gets more range time at 700-800 yds.If you can't shoot past 500yds with confidence then don't shoot at game past that.
YupThe op said when he gets more range time at 700-800 yds.
I believe most of us on this forum have bought or built rifles, and then 'worked' up our distance through range time and loads.
Are we to assume every distance shooter on this site began plinking at 1000 yards when they were 12?If you can't shoot past 500yds with confidence then don't shoot at game past that.
Well in fairness to you, i would agree that not every species of animal reacts the same towards shooting.I'm not criticizing anyone or their opinion …I'm certainly not here to win any arguments or demonstrate any greater experience or knowledge.
I only offer things to consider based on my experiences….
I have "shot-out" several barrels that were chambered with overbore cartridges…with a relatively low shot count and an over extended load development process.
I've taken shots at game at some fairly extended ranges and missed (I live in breezy Nevada)…gunfire generally spooks game, especially bullet splashes on nearby rocks…of course every animal reacts differently…but I've never seen a muley or a bull elk sniff a bullet splash…coyotes either.
In Nevada with so much public land, much of it covered with sagebrush…myself, my friends and many others here easily can and do set up targets at 800, 1000 , 1200yds…and actually shoot at them. from prone, sitting and truck hoods and tailgates…lots of dry dust here too, to flag the misses…any first round hit in unvarified conditions at the ranges mentioned I consider remarkable.
Spotters calling the misses soon has most of us shooters landing regular hits pretty quickly….at least until the wind or mirage shifts.
In my circle of shooters, first round hits at 800 or beyond are rare…we don't have unlimited time and resources to practice enough.
That's my real world experience…
No it isnt only for those who started at age 12 my friend.Are we to assume every distance shooter on this site began plinking at 1000 yards when they were 12?
Geeeze!
A few years ago I wouldn't shoot past 200 at a hog or coyote. I've now successfully taken hogs at 500.
Shot my first ever gong at 600 repeatedly a few weeks ago.
I was under the impression this site was for those of us who can't, to be able get to where we can.
We don't all have law enforcement or military backgrounds nor do we live in the West were we can shoot for miles.
Personally I learn a lot reading and studying here and I feel most have enough common sense to make logical determinations on our distances.