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<blockquote data-quote="COBrad" data-source="post: 684020" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p>My latest elk rifle is one Fiftydriver built, and it's a shooter! It is also a light weight 270 WSM. I have shot enough different magnums to have a good feel for them. The most effective elk rifle I've used was a fast .300 magnum. That rifle was an elk killing machine, but over the past 38 years I have become weary of thunderous magnums and brakes. I favor the 7 mm rem mag any more. This round hangs right in with the .300's, and does not produce enough recoil to require a brake. Now I don't intend this light weight 270 to be a half mile rifle, more like a 6 or 700 yard rifle. When I build another 1K elk rifle it will be another 7 rem mag shooting 180 gr VLD's through a Sendero contour barrel, and a finished, scoped weight of about 10 lbs. </p><p>The 270 weighs about 8 lbs scoped, and my long range rifle weighs about 13.5 scoped, just a bit heavier than I want to carry in the high country all day, day after day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="COBrad, post: 684020, member: 1940"] My latest elk rifle is one Fiftydriver built, and it's a shooter! It is also a light weight 270 WSM. I have shot enough different magnums to have a good feel for them. The most effective elk rifle I've used was a fast .300 magnum. That rifle was an elk killing machine, but over the past 38 years I have become weary of thunderous magnums and brakes. I favor the 7 mm rem mag any more. This round hangs right in with the .300's, and does not produce enough recoil to require a brake. Now I don't intend this light weight 270 to be a half mile rifle, more like a 6 or 700 yard rifle. When I build another 1K elk rifle it will be another 7 rem mag shooting 180 gr VLD's through a Sendero contour barrel, and a finished, scoped weight of about 10 lbs. The 270 weighs about 8 lbs scoped, and my long range rifle weighs about 13.5 scoped, just a bit heavier than I want to carry in the high country all day, day after day. [/QUOTE]
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