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Best compromise for a do it all rifle
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<blockquote data-quote="djm670" data-source="post: 1371111" data-attributes="member: 36341"><p>I don't really think you can do what you want with one rifle. </p><p></p><p>I shoot a lot of prairie dogs and no way would I use a .270 or a 6.5-.284 on them. Too many of them and the shooting is too frequent and rapid. Something like a 6 mm Remington (not that common anymore - yet you can still by factory ammo if you need to) might do all three from deer to coyotes to prairie dogs. But even that I would probably reserve for wood chucks on a reef 350 to 600 yards away. Have shot more than one elk with a 6 mm Remington. </p><p></p><p>You have a 6.5-.284, why not rebarrel if it is not accurate enough for shooting as far as you want to shoot. Use it for deer and elk (when heading west). And if not a 6 mm Remington, then a .222 or a .223 with a faster twist barrel for shooting heavies for coyotes, ground hogs and plinking in the midwest plus prairie dog and wood chucks out west along with a good .22 and a .17 hmr. Shooting at prairie dogs is fast and furious and even a heavy barrel .223 needs time to cool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djm670, post: 1371111, member: 36341"] I don't really think you can do what you want with one rifle. I shoot a lot of prairie dogs and no way would I use a .270 or a 6.5-.284 on them. Too many of them and the shooting is too frequent and rapid. Something like a 6 mm Remington (not that common anymore - yet you can still by factory ammo if you need to) might do all three from deer to coyotes to prairie dogs. But even that I would probably reserve for wood chucks on a reef 350 to 600 yards away. Have shot more than one elk with a 6 mm Remington. You have a 6.5-.284, why not rebarrel if it is not accurate enough for shooting as far as you want to shoot. Use it for deer and elk (when heading west). And if not a 6 mm Remington, then a .222 or a .223 with a faster twist barrel for shooting heavies for coyotes, ground hogs and plinking in the midwest plus prairie dog and wood chucks out west along with a good .22 and a .17 hmr. Shooting at prairie dogs is fast and furious and even a heavy barrel .223 needs time to cool. [/QUOTE]
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