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<blockquote data-quote="Jinx-)" data-source="post: 306036" data-attributes="member: 19791"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black">I would stay away from Savage since lately they dropped their standards to 1.75 MOA or less, I recently bought one of their 12 series riffle which shot just 1.5 MOA with factory and 1 MOA with handloads. Remington haven't done good job lately many of them have headspace problems, if you decide to go with Remington take go no go gage with you, I would recommend to use it on any, to many lemon slips are produced and out there waiting for you to buy them. If you like something what will shoot good and without hangover later, go with something which at least guaranty SUB MOA, like SAKO-TIKKA, Wetherby Vanguard, or even TC ICON line I just got one TC Precision Hunter which holds sub .5 MOA. Back to the cartridge to use on white tail, 270 WIN will do just fine, it has power to do job right, I think with 130 grain SGK and 58 grains of RL-22 you will find that it only takes 0.75 second to reach whatever you out there to get and it will drop 70" with 1900 fps and 1030 ft. lbs. However going with 150 grain 300 WM will reach 600 yards in 0 .78 seconds it will drop 76.5" and be going 1740 f/s and 1000 ft/lbs of energy, so you can see almost same time speed is greater on 270 WIN and impact energy is better and this energy makes things drop and its flatter, and the right tool will make a big difference don't forget good scope will also add-on to the equation. </span><span style="color: black">Whatever you decide on don't get in the overkill zone like 338 :-D</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jinx-), post: 306036, member: 19791"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]I would stay away from Savage since lately they dropped their standards to 1.75 MOA or less, I recently bought one of their 12 series riffle which shot just 1.5 MOA with factory and 1 MOA with handloads. Remington haven’t done good job lately many of them have headspace problems, if you decide to go with Remington take go no go gage with you, I would recommend to use it on any, to many lemon slips are produced and out there waiting for you to buy them. If you like something what will shoot good and without hangover later, go with something which at least guaranty SUB MOA, like SAKO-TIKKA, Wetherby Vanguard, or even TC ICON line I just got one TC Precision Hunter which holds sub .5 MOA. Back to the cartridge to use on white tail, 270 WIN will do just fine, it has power to do job right, I think with 130 grain SGK and 58 grains of RL-22 you will find that it only takes 0.75 second to reach whatever you out there to get and it will drop 70" with 1900 fps and 1030 ft. lbs. However going with 150 grain 300 WM will reach 600 yards in 0 .78 seconds it will drop 76.5" and be going 1740 f/s and 1000 ft/lbs of energy, so you can see almost same time speed is greater on 270 WIN and impact energy is better and this energy makes things drop and its flatter, and the right tool will make a big difference don’t forget good scope will also add-on to the equation. [/COLOR][COLOR=black]Whatever you decide on don’t get in the overkill zone like 338 :-D[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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