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.444 vs 45-70 vs 30-30
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<blockquote data-quote="Buano" data-source="post: 702976" data-attributes="member: 21641"><p>I agree. I simply have a hard time seeing anyone buying a gun that's no fun to shoot and which doesn't have huge advantages in other areas to make up for the recoil. (A .375 H&H isn't fun to shoot but it stops dangerous game.) This is why I suggested a BLR in .308 as an alternative. An other option, if a large bullet is the goal, is to go to shotgun slugs out of something like a Mossberg 500 Trophy Slugster. Slugs in a modern rifled shotgun will give you 1.5-2" groups at 100 yards with much less shoulder abuse than the guns initially proposed. My slug-gun is good for 200-250 yards.</p><p></p><p>On the last guided hunt I was on, my guide carried a .444 lever gun as a charging bear stopper. Before we went out we agreed that if he saw something he wanted to shoot that was out a ways I would hand him my rifle. The dual problems with the 3 guns initially suggested are recoil that makes the guns difficult to shoot accurately & bullets that drop like bricks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buano, post: 702976, member: 21641"] I agree. I simply have a hard time seeing anyone buying a gun that's no fun to shoot and which doesn't have huge advantages in other areas to make up for the recoil. (A .375 H&H isn't fun to shoot but it stops dangerous game.) This is why I suggested a BLR in .308 as an alternative. An other option, if a large bullet is the goal, is to go to shotgun slugs out of something like a Mossberg 500 Trophy Slugster. Slugs in a modern rifled shotgun will give you 1.5-2" groups at 100 yards with much less shoulder abuse than the guns initially proposed. My slug-gun is good for 200-250 yards. On the last guided hunt I was on, my guide carried a .444 lever gun as a charging bear stopper. Before we went out we agreed that if he saw something he wanted to shoot that was out a ways I would hand him my rifle. The dual problems with the 3 guns initially suggested are recoil that makes the guns difficult to shoot accurately & bullets that drop like bricks. [/QUOTE]
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