Favorite SC Whitetail Deer Round?

[Redleg]

but finding a place to shoot where that comes into play will be a challenge.

It's a haul down the road, but the Sportsman's Club at Fort Gordon in Augusta has an 800 meter range.

[Swamp Rat]

Cool! Thanks, Redleg. I think CWPINST has access to a longer range as well.

I just bought some ammunition for my 7mm WSM that I need to try out in my Winchester. If it shoots well, I want to see how well my Leupold B&C reticle hold overs coincide with that round. That will also mean some long range strokin'....

Leupold's instructions say that I should zero that round at 300 yards. The highest impact point out to 300 is only about 3.8 inches high (somewhere near the 175 yard mark). FLAT shooting - which is pointless if it doesn't shoot accurately.

[CWPINST]

Ours is 500 yards. The now, non-existant berm needs some work though. The 300yd range is GTG though. I will be there tomorrow.

[Swamp Rat]

I am gonna try to get the Model 70 to the range Monday after work to see what it is doing with those 140's. Then get it where the paper says it should be at 100. Then I need to get to 300 and check it for starters.

If it shoots 'em into less than an inch at 100 yards, I will go forward.

[SCH20FWLNSUX]

Personnaly like the .280, but there are other good ones on the list. The perfect caliber is the one you shoot WELL.

[BRR]

My favorite is the .270 win. But i have hand loaded some 130grain barnes tipped triple shock bullets in my 300 rem ultra mag and they are scorching 3800 fps. There is hardly anywhere you can see out of it's range in the upstate. i have shot 2 deer and a hog since i made that load. it is prity devastating.

[LuckyDucker]

30-06 so versatile with the loads.

[muddman]

.270 savage with 150 grain core lock

[romeocadet08]

.270 savage with 150 grain core lock

Yes sir

[stro]

Own and hunt with 30 06, 7MM Rem. Mag. and 300 Win Mag. My vote is for the 300 Win Mag. Every deer I've harvested with it has stopped them right in there tracks- kinda like a VW Beetle stuck on the tracks being hit by a Southern Locomotive @ 55 mph.

Lacking in another department?

[300WINMAG]

Lacking in another department?

Nope, just like the 0 yard tracking jobs. D.R.T. works for me-just back the truck and load and be on my way to the processor.

[Bigfoot]

.270 Win

130 grain Winchester Powerpoints

Deadly combo

x2. thats my poison!

[ze6464]

260 is all u need

[Swamp Rat]

We had a guy on our club in Smoaks that shot a 300 Win Mag and had a bunch of deer run off on him. It wasn't the caliber's fault, but placement and incorrect bullet selection. He was shooting some kind of controlled expansion 190 grain bullet. It was punching through like a pencil and leaving terrible blood trails.

[redfox]

12g with about 10 head on his ass!!!

[scbowhntr]

.308 for me.

[the Undertacker]

all you need is a 7mm 08 it hasnt failed me yet

[Rebel Yell]

i have hand loaded some 130grain barnes tipped triple shock bullets in my 300 rem ultra mag and they are scorching 3800 fps.

you get 3800 fps thru a chronograph? or you just doin some rithmetic to get that figure?

just read it again, didn't pick up on the 130 gr projectile

[tunanut]

you get 3800 fps thru a chronograph? or you just doin some rithmetic to get that figure?

just read it again, didn't pick up on the 130 gr projectile

I don't really like those bullets for deer. They fly great, but are very hard. I dug some out of the dirt and weighed them. They are 7mm bullets shat through the same gun. Not exactly scientific, but it's how I do. They maintain almost all of their weight, but don't expand very easily. The one that really expanded hit a rock about 6" into the dirt. Punch troughs if you don't hit some bone is what you'll get. Should work great on hogs or bear.
It's ashame cause they punch paper real good.


The Hornady's are interbond, not accubond are what I use out of the 7mm-08. Don't get the groups the barnes gets, but I like expandtion.

[BRR]

enough expansion was my intitial concern. but so far so good with results in the field.