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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 2702587" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>I hope you got to go. I live just outside Colorado Springs, and I use a 35 Whelen, a 300 Win Mag and a 30-06 for mule deer. The Whelen with 225 grain Sierra is probably the best deer round I've ever used, and I've been hunting them for over 40 years. But the -06 or the 300 will do the job out to the distances you will have to shoot just fine. I really like the 200 grain .308 bullets from Speer and Sierra for the longer shots in either .30 cal, though. As to altitude, it is really only going to effect your trajectory outside around 400 yards. But it will make your trajectory quite a bit flatter. Any ballistics calculator will show you that. It becomes very relevant at altitudes above 6,000ft. and needs to be accounted for. Not adjusting for altitude will generate misses beyond 350 yards. Since I hunt at 8,000+ feet, I try to confirm zero at the hunting area and I do it out to around 600 yards with both my primary and back up rifles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 2702587, member: 60453"] I hope you got to go. I live just outside Colorado Springs, and I use a 35 Whelen, a 300 Win Mag and a 30-06 for mule deer. The Whelen with 225 grain Sierra is probably the best deer round I've ever used, and I've been hunting them for over 40 years. But the -06 or the 300 will do the job out to the distances you will have to shoot just fine. I really like the 200 grain .308 bullets from Speer and Sierra for the longer shots in either .30 cal, though. As to altitude, it is really only going to effect your trajectory outside around 400 yards. But it will make your trajectory quite a bit flatter. Any ballistics calculator will show you that. It becomes very relevant at altitudes above 6,000ft. and needs to be accounted for. Not adjusting for altitude will generate misses beyond 350 yards. Since I hunt at 8,000+ feet, I try to confirm zero at the hunting area and I do it out to around 600 yards with both my primary and back up rifles. [/QUOTE]
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