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<blockquote data-quote="rustyshackleford" data-source="post: 2209988" data-attributes="member: 59526"><p>Kind of how I arrived at my choice. I want to hunt elk and the rule of thumb is 1500 ft/lbs and from Scott Saterlee it sounds like 2k ft/sec makes sure you get near the full wounding potential of that energy. So now how much recoil can tolerate well enough to shoot on my worst day and how much rifle do I want to carry? I settled on a lightweight 30-06 with a 200 gr bullet. It gets to 500 yards meeting the earlier criteria so I have a nice light rifle that doesn't kick to hard and is GTG out 500 in my mind. It would probably do the job further and it could probably be done with less or more but I'm pretty confident in that set up and those metrics</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rustyshackleford, post: 2209988, member: 59526"] Kind of how I arrived at my choice. I want to hunt elk and the rule of thumb is 1500 ft/lbs and from Scott Saterlee it sounds like 2k ft/sec makes sure you get near the full wounding potential of that energy. So now how much recoil can tolerate well enough to shoot on my worst day and how much rifle do I want to carry? I settled on a lightweight 30-06 with a 200 gr bullet. It gets to 500 yards meeting the earlier criteria so I have a nice light rifle that doesn’t kick to hard and is GTG out 500 in my mind. It would probably do the job further and it could probably be done with less or more but I’m pretty confident in that set up and those metrics [/QUOTE]
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