Whats the cartridge you LOVE to HATE?
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scpaul
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I do use some hold over, I generally set my scope at dead on at 200 yds. and elevate out to usually a max of 600 or so yards. Shooting my 300 Wm isn't much of a problem but if I have my 7-08 it's a little different. And so it sees for others like my 300 RUM, I set it for a 300 yd. zero. I haven't had enough time on the range with my 7/300Wm to know how to set it. That one if it does what I'm expecting, may be the first one that I dial. It has a 6×24×50 scope on it. It's probably going to primarily be a range gun
I've shot 1 deer with it at 300 yds. and the damage was such that I lost alot of meat to trauma and blood shot a big area. I don't remember the mv. from back then but I used a 139 Hornady and it was fast.
I've shot 1 deer with it at 300 yds. and the damage was such that I lost alot of meat to trauma and blood shot a big area. I don't remember the mv. from back then but I used a 139 Hornady and it was fast.
QuietTexan
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Where I'm at I have enough time to pack up the spotter, move halfway down the ridgeline, get set up again, get bored and start glassing around, and still wait another hour for him to him to meander closer until I decide to shoot
But then again I have about 3-mile views all the way around from the ridgeline, or about a one-mile view from a tower stand. Much further than can be shot. It's frustrating to be sitting in one tower and see a nice buck a couple over, but the ranch boss doesn't want anyone throwing around 1500 yard shots across senderos.scpaul
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I understand, besides at that angle ricochet would be a problem if it passed through. Of course in Texas there may not be anything to worry about for miles. S.C. unfortunately isn't that way, even if we have that much of an area it's going to be atleast partially grown over high enough where you couldn't see them anyway. Just finding an area where I can stretch out to 600 yds is tough. To stay on our property with the range we shoot diagonally otherwise we'd only have 500 yds. There aren't any ranges in the area that go over 300 yds. We did have 1 on Ft. Jackson that went to 1k yds. We refurbed it, put pvc tubes in the ground to put the new and newly rebuilt target frames in. The 2nd year they took it back and gave us a range that the only way to get 100yds. was to put the targets on the incline, not a berm at the end of the
range. Before we got it they were using it for a pistol range. There's places but the owners don't want it cleared that far. They harvest trees every 20 or so years.
range. Before we got it they were using it for a pistol range. There's places but the owners don't want it cleared that far. They harvest trees every 20 or so years.
Playtimefun
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Went hunting with a friend and he did the opposite. Medium sized whitetail came out of a coulee about 120 yards away and he decided that was the one he was going to take. So he let the deer walk for almost 2 hours until it got to 1040 yards (about to go into next section of land) when he FINALLY pulled the trigger. The whole time I was like shoot for #### sakes... I was getting stiff and sore trying to sit behind a small ground blind. He patiently lied there on the ground... watching and checking distances and dry firing in practice. FINALLY... 1 shot later with 7mm-08 right through the ribs and lungs.Where I'm at I have enough time to pack up the spotter, move halfway down the ridgeline, get set up again, get bored and start glassing around, and still wait another hour for him to him to meander closer until I decide to shoot
He only had 2 guns a 7-08 and a 7 RM and every second year he was re-barreling them as he did a lot of practicing.
I have a couple of turret scope rifles I'll use if I hunt with someone else. My buddies use a phone app for wind and elevation but most of what I hunt that's not an option. I hunt with too many firearms to consider doing this often. Mildot works just fine.
scpaul
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I'd like to learn to use mil-dot but I would need to use it so seldom that I'd have a problem remembering all of the different possibilities of measurement. How many total measurements can be taken from a mil-dot recticle.
If you have time to range you have time to figure it out in your head. I have a bunch of Russian scopes and they use a certain sized human for reference at ranges. It's worked for 70 or so years.
7.62 x 39. I've never had one that could hit the broadside of a barn in two different rifles.
If you'd like to give it another try, I bought a howa mini in 7.62x39 last year. Gun has a sub moa guarantee and shoots sub moa with cheap tula ammo which is quite impressive to me.
Agreed! 260 Rem. Is a better cartridge! Some writers stated the 6.5CM could out distance 300 Win. Mag.!
ntsqd
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Find yourself on the Left Coast and I'll offer to let you shoot my Howa Mini in 7.62x39. It loves PPU SP's. Almost like those bullets are laser guided or something, they hit what I intended even if I muffed the shot.
As to the thread's title, there's very few that I dislike. Some I won't shoot or shoot again (.378 Wby, .50 BMG), others I'll shoot but would never own (.220 Swift, .30-40 Krag), still others that I wonder why? (.41 Mag, .22 Jet), many that I have zero interest in (.460 S&W, 6mm Lee Navy), some that I'd love to shoot at least once (.276 Pederson, .40-70 Sharps Straight), but none that I hate.
I can agree with your sentiments, for me it's because I have been a 260 Rem fan for many years and to hear the 6.5 CM bandwagon claim it's so superior to all other 6.5 cartridges just makes me laugh, it's like they have never read a ballistic chart.
And ballistics show it's not much more than a 30/30
