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<blockquote data-quote="Reelamin" data-source="post: 2342320" data-attributes="member: 42157"><p>Welcome to the hunting world.....well welcome back. Don't limit yourself to thinking your not a long range hunter. Most hunters of deer elk bear etc. rarely if ever shoot an animal past 500 yards. Heck I would say rarely past 300!! For what your talking you could just shoot some light recoiling loads or have someone reload a light recoiling load for the 06. Deer, Antelope are pretty dang easy to kill and of those hogs are probably the hardest. You mentioned you wanted to scale down to what will do the job. A 223 will do the job just not so well but a 22-250 will knock the pee wads out of all three of those at under 500 loaded with the correct quality HUNTING bullet not a target or relabeled target bullet. I would say at least 60gr to 70gr and there are not a lot of them but a ton of varmint or re-labeled target bullets. </p><p></p><p>Out to well past 1000 yards many, many, many different "normal production rifles" work just as well or better than even many of the "custom" rifles. What do you get for the extra money buying bling bling.....just that bling bling and ego petting. The issue is then you mention you are wanting under 6.5lb rifle. Holy hello brother you are really throwing some big wants. The most expensive rifle thing I have found is what it costs to really drop gun weight and every ounce seems to cost double the one before. I just got my Savage Ultralight (totally freaking stock) except for the muzzle brake (28N I want the recoil reduction for long range +6-700yds) and she shoots 160 Accubonds at 3350fps into .5" groups at 100. It will shoot 10" 900 yard groups. Yep I dropped a whole $1450 on it and it weighs exactly 6lb 5oz. Good luck getting a custom with all those features you want built for 3K. </p><p></p><p>For me the 243 will kill everything you want at the distance you want. Main stream with lots of guns available the next is the 6.5 SIM, then the 7-08, etc. For me...7-08 would be the minimum for me if eliminating the 243. Just because it can shoot a broader range of bullets and I think is more effective on game than the 6.5 SIM or similar sized cases. Good luck to you and you will find what you want and it will work great.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reelamin, post: 2342320, member: 42157"] Welcome to the hunting world.....well welcome back. Don't limit yourself to thinking your not a long range hunter. Most hunters of deer elk bear etc. rarely if ever shoot an animal past 500 yards. Heck I would say rarely past 300!! For what your talking you could just shoot some light recoiling loads or have someone reload a light recoiling load for the 06. Deer, Antelope are pretty dang easy to kill and of those hogs are probably the hardest. You mentioned you wanted to scale down to what will do the job. A 223 will do the job just not so well but a 22-250 will knock the pee wads out of all three of those at under 500 loaded with the correct quality HUNTING bullet not a target or relabeled target bullet. I would say at least 60gr to 70gr and there are not a lot of them but a ton of varmint or re-labeled target bullets. Out to well past 1000 yards many, many, many different "normal production rifles" work just as well or better than even many of the "custom" rifles. What do you get for the extra money buying bling bling.....just that bling bling and ego petting. The issue is then you mention you are wanting under 6.5lb rifle. Holy hello brother you are really throwing some big wants. The most expensive rifle thing I have found is what it costs to really drop gun weight and every ounce seems to cost double the one before. I just got my Savage Ultralight (totally freaking stock) except for the muzzle brake (28N I want the recoil reduction for long range +6-700yds) and she shoots 160 Accubonds at 3350fps into .5" groups at 100. It will shoot 10" 900 yard groups. Yep I dropped a whole $1450 on it and it weighs exactly 6lb 5oz. Good luck getting a custom with all those features you want built for 3K. For me the 243 will kill everything you want at the distance you want. Main stream with lots of guns available the next is the 6.5 SIM, then the 7-08, etc. For me...7-08 would be the minimum for me if eliminating the 243. Just because it can shoot a broader range of bullets and I think is more effective on game than the 6.5 SIM or similar sized cases. Good luck to you and you will find what you want and it will work great. [/QUOTE]
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