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<blockquote data-quote="TOM H" data-source="post: 58150" data-attributes="member: 306"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p>If your not in politics you need to be! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p>It is confusing when people ask for a deer load for a certain cal and give no other information in our part of the world we have a combination season until afew years you had to hunt deer and elk in the same season so my loads were tailored for that type of hunting. I've never found a need for anything larger than a 180gr bullet for either deer or elk. I've taken afew at some long ranges before it was called long range hunting. I look more to the bullet BC and velocity for the range than just bullet weight alone and does it have enought energy to drop and elk at 800yds and if it does than it's a good deer load also. When you start loading for the 30-338 and say with a twist of 1/10 and go to the 200gr bullet and with a velocity of less than 3000fps I wouldn't use that bullet I'd want to move up to alittle more case capacity like the 30-378 wby mine will put a 180br bullet over 3400fps. I'm thinking of a broughton 5c barrel 1/10 twist for a 30-338 I just had a 300wsm done up with that barrel and real happy with it kind of like to do it around that 180gr swift bullet. Well good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TOM H, post: 58150, member: 306"] [ QUOTE ] If your not in politics you need to be! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] It is confusing when people ask for a deer load for a certain cal and give no other information in our part of the world we have a combination season until afew years you had to hunt deer and elk in the same season so my loads were tailored for that type of hunting. I've never found a need for anything larger than a 180gr bullet for either deer or elk. I've taken afew at some long ranges before it was called long range hunting. I look more to the bullet BC and velocity for the range than just bullet weight alone and does it have enought energy to drop and elk at 800yds and if it does than it's a good deer load also. When you start loading for the 30-338 and say with a twist of 1/10 and go to the 200gr bullet and with a velocity of less than 3000fps I wouldn't use that bullet I'd want to move up to alittle more case capacity like the 30-378 wby mine will put a 180br bullet over 3400fps. I'm thinking of a broughton 5c barrel 1/10 twist for a 30-338 I just had a 300wsm done up with that barrel and real happy with it kind of like to do it around that 180gr swift bullet. Well good luck. [/QUOTE]
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