So what's every bodies favorite 30 caliber round and in what rifle for hunting.
Mine is a 300wby in a Ruger#1. It's been everywhere with me and preformed flawlessly.
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So what's every bodies favorite 30 caliber round and in what rifle for hunting.
Mine is a 300wby in a Ruger#1. It's been everywhere with me and preformed flawlessly.
My favorite is the 30-06. Really hard to beat. The rifle is a Rem 700 BDL with a Bell and Carlson Kevlar stock,Shilen match trigger, Greg Tannel fireing pin and spring with a custom shroud and a decelorator recoil pad. Topped with a Lupy VXIII 3x9. I shoot TSX 180s at 2700fps. It has knock down power. Very accurate and tough. I am a Gunsmith so after this years trip she gets a new barrel. A Shilen super match grade I bought for this project. So as she sits now its a semi custom job.
Wouldnt mind seeing a picture of that fine sounding rifle. That custom shroud in particular.
I would like to see a picture also..Quote:
Originally Posted by BARTFRNCS
My favorite 30 cal rifle is a 300 Weatherby mag with synthetic stock...
This rifle has made 5 trips to Alaska and it just keeps ticking...:sharpshooter:
30-06. Rifle choice is a bit odd: an M1 Garand made in 1941, rebuilt by Eric Pierce. I opened up the rear aperture to about 0.125 inch to make it quicker and easier to see in lower light. Doesn't get to go to Africa, but I do really enjoy that rifle. There is just something special and fun about it. I've taken a bison and an axis deer with it. I'll probably use it for whitetail this fall. It doesn't get as much hunting use as my bolt gun in '06, but it is clearly my favorite.
I too have a fine shooting M1, an H&R that I got from the DCM program when I was still shooting High Power competition. Those rifles were a pig in a poke as to what you would get. For once I got lucky and got a beauty! Fine new barrel, perfect cut chamber, brass last for as many loadings as I can stand to look at them. Did well with it in the matches, won the local M1 match with it one year by a large margin. It is one of those guns I will be planted with. '06 of course! Have found no better load than 48.5 grs of IMR 4064 in Win cases, CCI 200 primer behind a 168 Sierra or Nosler match. Back when the Nosler Solid Base bullets were still around it was phenominal, but it shoots the new Nosler almost as well. It helped when I still had really good vision which at 57 I no longer have.
I probably should say my 300 Win Mag in a Browning A Bolt is my favorite gun...it has killed a lot of game.
But my Browning Bar in a 30-06 is my favorite. A lot of people like to put the 30-06 down. But the fact is it has killed a ton of game! The ammo is widely available and is cheaper than other calibers. The recoil is very manageable. Unless a person hunts cape buffalo or elephant....he has a gun that can do anything.
I would stick with the 06. Win model 70 featherweight toped with a redfield 3x9. That is what I used on my recent trip to SA and she performed like a dream. Hornady superformace 180grn interbond. 2900 fps almost puts it to the .300 mag velocities. Thats my favorite.