Knowing what you know now, which cartridge?

[DJ Fergus]

I Know this may be corny but I thought it would be interesting to see the results. Here's the question:

Knowing what we know today about ballistic coefficient, wind drift, etc...
What pre 1980's off the shelf, factory form cartridge would you be using today if those were your only choices.

 

[JMW67]

I Know this may be corny but I thought it would be interesting to see the results. Here's the question:

Knowing what we know today about ballistic coefficient, wind drift, etc...
What pre 1980's off the shelf, factory form cartridge would you be using today if those were your only choices.

264 win 7mm rem 300 win 280 rem

 

[DJ Fergus]

264 win 7mm rem 300 win 280 rem

My thoughts exactly.

 

[FEENIX]

I Know this may be corny but I thought it would be interesting to see the results. Here's the question:

Knowing what we know today about ballistic coefficient, wind drift, etc...
What pre 1980's off the shelf, factory form cartridge would you be using today if those were your only choices.

You should do a poll as you did in your brake or not brake a 9 lbs rifle post.

 

[DJ Fergus]

Created a poll but I could only put so many choices in.

 

[dmj]

300 win mag. I just plain like this cartridge, caliber. But will admit the 7mm rm is real hard to argue against.

 

[sturner]

Mine were
7 rem mag
300 wby mag
300 win mag
And they weren't braked
Only because I didn't know about brakes

 

[DJ Fergus]

I set the poll up to where you can choose more than one.

 

[DJ Fergus]

I'm pretty confident 300 win mag is going to win. 2nd, 3rd,& 4th place will be interesting to see.

 

[FEENIX]

Created a poll but I could only put so many choices in.

Perfect!

 

[Goose71]

7 mag and 25-06

 

[FEENIX]

I'm pretty confident 300 win mag is going to win. 2nd, 3rd,& 4th place will be interesting to see.

The .300 WM remains my go-to chambering for antelope to elk size game up 1K yards.

 

[SilverbulletMAG]

Is this hypothetical based on modern bullets available now, or what was available at the time? Looks like we can pick more than one so I'd go:
264 Win for medium size game and
300 Bee for the bigger critters

 

[DJ Fergus]

Base it off of available bullets. The results of that information may be more useful.