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One caliber, two chamberings to cover everything hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="Allen Kitts" data-source="post: 2888719" data-attributes="member: 103317"><p>I was on a whitetail deer hunt the day after Thanksgiving about 15 years ago. We were on horseback and from the trail I could see animals moving all over the hillside in front of us but it was snowing to hard to tell what they were. Once we got closer we climbed the ridge across from them staying out of sight and when we crested the ridge there were at least three hundred elk on the hillside. All I had was my 257 Bee with 100 grain Barnes TTSX. The shot was 405 yards and he went down in ten yards from the shot. 100 grains of hot copper at 3500 FPS will do the trick just fine if you hit the boiler room. I have also killed a couple of cow elk with the same rifle with no issues. Just happened to be the rifle I was carrying when we ran into them. Took another really nice bull at 300 yards with my 25-06 and 87 grain Hornady bullets. The 25's will do the trick, wouldn't be my first choice but i surely wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger on one inside 400 yards either. You have to make a good shot though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allen Kitts, post: 2888719, member: 103317"] I was on a whitetail deer hunt the day after Thanksgiving about 15 years ago. We were on horseback and from the trail I could see animals moving all over the hillside in front of us but it was snowing to hard to tell what they were. Once we got closer we climbed the ridge across from them staying out of sight and when we crested the ridge there were at least three hundred elk on the hillside. All I had was my 257 Bee with 100 grain Barnes TTSX. The shot was 405 yards and he went down in ten yards from the shot. 100 grains of hot copper at 3500 FPS will do the trick just fine if you hit the boiler room. I have also killed a couple of cow elk with the same rifle with no issues. Just happened to be the rifle I was carrying when we ran into them. Took another really nice bull at 300 yards with my 25-06 and 87 grain Hornady bullets. The 25's will do the trick, wouldn't be my first choice but i surely wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger on one inside 400 yards either. You have to make a good shot though. [/QUOTE]
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