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<blockquote data-quote="Long Time Long Ranger" data-source="post: 257437" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>I agree with you and you are correct in my opinion that for his purposes the 300 wsm will do a good job. I am very impressed with the 300 wsm. What I was getting at is that I think it is a 600 yard gun and if you want more I think a bigger gun would be better. Because after shooting it a lot and thinking it is a 600 yard gun I am going with the 150 barnes TTSX in mine because I can run those to 3419 fps and I had a big drop off in my gun with the 180's and 200's. With a 600 yard gun the big bullets can't catch the little 150 and the barnes 150 retaining all of it's weight has really impressed me as hitting a lot harder than a regular 150 in my other guns. Could I kill an elk at 800 yards with your 180 grain load? You bet I could , if I had a choice though I had rather have one of my bigger guns at that range. You were showing the energy of the 7stw at whatever range that was. Back in the 70's I shot a nice 6 point bull off the flat tops in Colorado at over 1100 yards with a 270 wby and a 140 grain boattail. That energy wasn't much but the elk walked about 50 yards and layed down dead. He was never even spooked. After guiding a lot of elk hunters though I realized bigger was definitely better. You can take any center fire big game rifle loaded properly and kill stuff with it so all we do here is argue about trivial things anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Long Time Long Ranger, post: 257437, member: 505"] I agree with you and you are correct in my opinion that for his purposes the 300 wsm will do a good job. I am very impressed with the 300 wsm. What I was getting at is that I think it is a 600 yard gun and if you want more I think a bigger gun would be better. Because after shooting it a lot and thinking it is a 600 yard gun I am going with the 150 barnes TTSX in mine because I can run those to 3419 fps and I had a big drop off in my gun with the 180's and 200's. With a 600 yard gun the big bullets can't catch the little 150 and the barnes 150 retaining all of it's weight has really impressed me as hitting a lot harder than a regular 150 in my other guns. Could I kill an elk at 800 yards with your 180 grain load? You bet I could , if I had a choice though I had rather have one of my bigger guns at that range. You were showing the energy of the 7stw at whatever range that was. Back in the 70's I shot a nice 6 point bull off the flat tops in Colorado at over 1100 yards with a 270 wby and a 140 grain boattail. That energy wasn't much but the elk walked about 50 yards and layed down dead. He was never even spooked. After guiding a lot of elk hunters though I realized bigger was definitely better. You can take any center fire big game rifle loaded properly and kill stuff with it so all we do here is argue about trivial things anyway. [/QUOTE]
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