Flattest shooting deer rifle

[TC338]

What chambering would you guys recommend for a deer rifle to just point and shoot. My dad does not want to range and dial. He'd rather just zero his rifle and not touch it again. 350-400 yard max range. What would you guys recommend?

 

[Wolf76]

257 weatherby.

 

[Earnhardt]

A POI gun out to 400 yards…that would be a laser….no literally a laser beam

 

[Frank in the Laurels]

..you mean " flattest shootin cartridge "...be hard to beat the 6.5/300 Weatherby or the old warhorse 7 STW....

 

[Gary in MD]

The 257 Weatherby will shine and not beat you up with recoil.

 

[antleredacres]

The 257 Weatherby will shine and not beat you up with recoil.

I'd go simple. 270 Winchester sighted 3" above POA at 100 yds.

 

[Sockeye66]

I'd go simple. 270 Winchester sighted 3" above POA at 100 yds.

With a 110gr TTSX at 3400fps that would be a good candidate.

 

[Calvin45]

257 Weatherby ALL DAY!!!! I love mine. It kicks less than my .270 too. The monster 6.5s and 7s MIGHT be flatter, certainly do buck the wind better at true long range, but for a 400 yard point and shoot rifle you will not beat the .257 wby.

Took my whitetail last season with a 75 grain hammer hunter chronographed at 4150 feet per second out of my 24 inch vanguard stainless. Don't know what the ballistic charts say it should do, what it actually does is honest to goodness hold on hair trajectory to 500 yards verified on steel targets at the range. Dead on at 400, between 3-5 inches high at both 200 and 300, about a foot of drop at 500…hold on the back you're still dropping it into the heart region no problem.

My deer was about 300 yards…drunken staggered about 10 yards and collapsed, and that hit a bit further back than I meant to. Rear lungs but double lungs and the performance was just awesome.

That little bullet also exited the full bodied Saskatchewan whitetail, broke two ribs on entry and one on exit.

 

[Rosebud]

25-06, 92 grain Hammer Hunter tipped. Mine is shooting at 3540 FPS. Stay on hair out to 400 yards with 200 zero.

 

[milestown]

Get a .257 Weatherby and some light weight Hammer
bullets. Hold on the hair so you don't over shoot the critter.
Tell your dad good luck hunting.

Hal

 

[Dean2]

I like the 257 but for point and shoot to 350 or 400 yards, even a 308 will do that. It is all about how the cartridge is sighted in. My 308 spits out a 130 grain TTSX at 3150 Fps, sighted 4.2 high at 100 you are good to nearly 400 yards.

Barnes 130 TSX BC 340 3150 FPS Zero at 325 yards
Range	Path	ComeUp	Velocity	Energy	Momentum	ToF	Windage	Windage	Optimal
yds	in	clicks	fps	ft/lbs	lb ft/s	sec	in	clicks	Game Wgt
Muzzle	-1.5	Infinity	3150	2864	58.5	0	0	NaN	792
25	0.3	-4	3077	2733	57.15	0.024	0	0	739
50	1.8	-14	3006	2608	55.82	0.049	0	0	688
75	3.1	-16	2935	2487	54.51	0.074	0	0	641
100	4.2	-16	2866	2371	53.23	0.1	0.1	0	597
125	5	-15	2798	2259	51.96	0.126	0.1	0	555
150	5.5	-14	2731	2152	50.71	0.154	0.2	0	516
175	5.7	-12	2665	2049	49.48	0.181	0.3	1	480
200	5.6	-11	2599	1950	48.28	0.21	0.3	1	445
225	5.2	-9	2535	1856	47.09	0.239	0.4	1	413
250	4.4	-7	2472	1764	45.92	0.269	0.5	1	383
275	3.3	-5	2410	1677	44.76	0.3	0.7	1	355
300	1.9	-2	2349	1593	43.63	0.331	0.8	1	329
325	0	0	2289	1513	42.51	0.364	1	1	304
350	-2.3	3	2230	1435	41.41	0.397	1.1	1	281
375	-5	5	2171	1361	40.33	0.431	1.3	1	260
400	-8.2	8	2114	1290	39.25	0.466	1.5	1	239
425	-11.9	11	2057	1221	38.2	0.502	1.7	2	221
450	-16.1	14	2001	1155	37.15	0.539	1.9	2	203
475	-20.8	17	1946	1093	36.13	0.577	2.2	2	187
500	-26.1	20	1891	1033	35.13	0.616	2.5	2	172

 

[Hoss50]

257 weatherby or 6.5x300 weatherby. 257 will give you longer barrel life.

 

[Calvin45]

I like the 257 but for point and shoot to 350 or 400 yards, even a 308 will do that. It is all about how the cartridge is sighted in. My 308 spits out a 130 grain TTSX at 3150 Fps, sighted 4.2 high at 100 you are good to nearly 400 yards.

Barnes 130 TSX BC 340 3150 FPS Zero at 325 yards
Range	Path	ComeUp	Velocity	Energy	Momentum	ToF	Windage	Windage	Optimal
yds	in	clicks	fps	ft/lbs	lb ft/s	sec	in	clicks	Game Wgt
Muzzle	-1.5	Infinity	3150	2864	58.5	0	0	NaN	792
25	0.3	-4	3077	2733	57.15	0.024	0	0	739
50	1.8	-14	3006	2608	55.82	0.049	0	0	688
75	3.1	-16	2935	2487	54.51	0.074	0	0	641
100	4.2	-16	2866	2371	53.23	0.1	0.1	0	597
125	5	-15	2798	2259	51.96	0.126	0.1	0	555
150	5.5	-14	2731	2152	50.71	0.154	0.2	0	516
175	5.7	-12	2665	2049	49.48	0.181	0.3	1	480
200	5.6	-11	2599	1950	48.28	0.21	0.3	1	445
225	5.2	-9	2535	1856	47.09	0.239	0.4	1	413
250	4.4	-7	2472	1764	45.92	0.269	0.5	1	383
275	3.3	-5	2410	1677	44.76	0.3	0.7	1	355
300	1.9	-2	2349	1593	43.63	0.331	0.8	1	329
325	0	0	2289	1513	42.51	0.364	1	1	304
350	-2.3	3	2230	1435	41.41	0.397	1.1	1	281
375	-5	5	2171	1361	40.33	0.431	1.3	1	260
400	-8.2	8	2114	1290	39.25	0.466	1.5	1	239
425	-11.9	11	2057	1221	38.2	0.502	1.7	2	221
450	-16.1	14	2001	1155	37.15	0.539	1.9	2	203
475	-20.8	17	1946	1093	36.13	0.577	2.2	2	187
500	-26.1	20	1891	1033	35.13	0.616	2.5	2	172

True. Inside 400 yards most any centerfire is pretty flat, flatter than most people think anyway. I've never missed low but I know over the years I've shot clean over a number of critters from underestimating how flat ordinary .30-06s and such shoot and overestimating how far it was as well as innacurate perception of how dang high I really was holding.

 

[Trm82]

Last year I was shooting 110ttsx at 3740 fps out of my 270 wby and they were insane.

257 wby with 100 ttsx at 3800 fps are hard to beat also.