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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Wright" data-source="post: 2284976" data-attributes="member: 108611"><p>I've given similar responses before, but I'll share this again. I'd go for a 300WM. I don't know what is in your hunting future. About 15 years ago in preparing for a Saskatchewan whitetail tail hunt I bought a browning xbolt in 300WM. It was a great flat shooting almost perfect gun for that trip. I took home a 300 lb 10 point. But the real tale is what it has been used for since then. In cathedral following years that gun has been to the western states, Europe, and 4 times to South Africa. Even in remote places ammo is fairly easy to find, and if you don't reload you can buy great factory ammo from 150 to 220 grains. I have put over 40 animals on the wall with it including prong horn, mule deer, aoudad, nilgai, scimitar oryx in the US, Gredos ibex in Spain, and over a couple of dozen antelope from South Africa, from steenbok and klipspringer to kudu and eland. It's taken animals from less than 20# to 1700#+. At least look at the option. I had two 7mm when I bought it. It turns out to have been a clairvoyant purchase—one of the best ever made. It has made memories for a lifetime. Good luck. I home yours does the same. Tom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Wright, post: 2284976, member: 108611"] I’ve given similar responses before, but I’ll share this again. I’d go for a 300WM. I don’t know what is in your hunting future. About 15 years ago in preparing for a Saskatchewan whitetail tail hunt I bought a browning xbolt in 300WM. It was a great flat shooting almost perfect gun for that trip. I took home a 300 lb 10 point. But the real tale is what it has been used for since then. In cathedral following years that gun has been to the western states, Europe, and 4 times to South Africa. Even in remote places ammo is fairly easy to find, and if you don’t reload you can buy great factory ammo from 150 to 220 grains. I have put over 40 animals on the wall with it including prong horn, mule deer, aoudad, nilgai, scimitar oryx in the US, Gredos ibex in Spain, and over a couple of dozen antelope from South Africa, from steenbok and klipspringer to kudu and eland. It’s taken animals from less than 20# to 1700#+. At least look at the option. I had two 7mm when I bought it. It turns out to have been a clairvoyant purchase—one of the best ever made. It has made memories for a lifetime. Good luck. I home yours does the same. Tom [/QUOTE]
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