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Is there such thing as too much gun for sheep?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ak_Hobie" data-source="post: 2054077" data-attributes="member: 115613"><p>My first sheep hunt I carried a Winchester model 70 338 win mag. I was a poor teacher and it was the only gun I had at the time. It was a spotter model so was around 7.5 lbs. I was shooting the 210 gr federal premium safari rounds and harvested a smaller but full curl ram. Needless to say, on the way out I was really happy I had that 338 and so was my partner. I though I had heard my partner to my left and yelled out to him. He walks up to my right and asks what up. I had tied the gun on the back of the pack with some twine in case we needed it. I told him he needed to cut the gun off ASAP because I thought it was him walking on the other side of the alders. The next 3 miles down to the river was littered with big piles of bear scat and that bear quartered us all the way back to the airstrip. I have since gotten out of education and my collection has grown substantially. I have a 270 Ruger ultralite and a 6.5 cm tikka super lite now but I might take the 338 or buy a 300 if I was starting at an area with lots of salmon and alders. That gun is a shooter too and I have lots of confidence in it. So my answer to these kind of questions is always where are you hunting, does the area have salmon producing water, and how much bushwhacking will you be doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ak_Hobie, post: 2054077, member: 115613"] My first sheep hunt I carried a Winchester model 70 338 win mag. I was a poor teacher and it was the only gun I had at the time. It was a spotter model so was around 7.5 lbs. I was shooting the 210 gr federal premium safari rounds and harvested a smaller but full curl ram. Needless to say, on the way out I was really happy I had that 338 and so was my partner. I though I had heard my partner to my left and yelled out to him. He walks up to my right and asks what up. I had tied the gun on the back of the pack with some twine in case we needed it. I told him he needed to cut the gun off ASAP because I thought it was him walking on the other side of the alders. The next 3 miles down to the river was littered with big piles of bear scat and that bear quartered us all the way back to the airstrip. I have since gotten out of education and my collection has grown substantially. I have a 270 Ruger ultralite and a 6.5 cm tikka super lite now but I might take the 338 or buy a 300 if I was starting at an area with lots of salmon and alders. That gun is a shooter too and I have lots of confidence in it. So my answer to these kind of questions is always where are you hunting, does the area have salmon producing water, and how much bushwhacking will you be doing. [/QUOTE]
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