on a lighter note...

[rookhawk]

You are right Bob. Jack O pushed it down my throat. Got one when I was 14. 52 yrs later and 300 plus critters and not one lost. Not a tomato stake!

It's sort of true. When calibers get improved and reintroduced they tend to be too much of a good thing. Everything I love in firearms was perfected before 1930:

22 Savage
240 Apex (243 is a fake clone)
257 Roberts
6.5x55SE
6.5 Mannlicher
7x57
280 Ross
303 Brit
300 H&H
318 Westley
333 Jeffery
350 Rigby
375 Holland
404 Jeff
470 NE
577 NE

If one of those is lacking for a given task, you probably ought not do that task.

 

[CoElkHunter]

It's sort of true. When calibers get improved and reintroduced they tend to be too much of a good thing. Everything I love in firearms was perfected before 1930:

22 Savage
240 Apex (243 is a fake clone)
257 Roberts
6.5x55SE
6.5 Mannlicher
7x57
280 Ross
303 Brit
300 H&H
318 Westley
333 Jeffery
350 Rigby
375 Holland
404 Jeff
470 NE
577 NE

If one of those is lacking for a given task, you probably ought not do that task.

.270 WINCHESTER (1925).

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Let me see if I have this right...

7x57 (good)
.284, 140 gr at approx 2800

.270 (bad)
.277, 130 gr at approx 2850

Seems logical to me........

@gearguywb
117 gn out of my 25 3,360fps chronoed
Bob

 

[Major Bonkers]

 

[CoElkHunter]

@gearguywb
117 gn out of my 25 3,360fps chronoed
Bob

55gr out of a .220 Swift 4,000fps.

 

[JimP]

@gearguywb
117 gn out of my 25 3,360fps chronoed
Bob

My .25 100 gr out the barrel at 3300 fps suits me just fine even if I can push it another 100-200 fps

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

My .25 100 gr out the barrel at 3300 fps suits me just fine even if I can push it another 100-200 fps

@JimP
I like the 109grainers out of mine at over 3,600 fps, just fun to shoot a long ways out with minimal or zero hold over
Bob

 

[sgt_zim]

It's sort of true. When calibers get improved and reintroduced they tend to be too much of a good thing. Everything I love in firearms was perfected before 1930:

22 Savage
240 Apex (243 is a fake clone)
257 Roberts
6.5x55SE
6.5 Mannlicher
7x57
280 Ross
303 Brit
300 H&H
318 Westley
333 Jeffery
350 Rigby

9.3x62 Mauser

375 Holland
404 Jeff
470 NE
577 NE

If one of those is lacking for a given task, you probably ought not do that task.

Fixed it for you.

 

[CoElkHunter]

.270 WINCHESTER (1925).

Savage .250-3000 (1915).

 

[CoElkHunter]

@gearguywb
117 gn out of my 25 3,360fps chronoed
Bob

87gr out of the 1915 designed Savage .250-3000 @3000fps. With modern powders probably 4000fps? LOL And apparently it kills WAY above its ballistics:

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Bring back the jokes and memes!!!!!

 

[mdwest]

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

It's sort of true. When calibers get improved and reintroduced they tend to be too much of a good thing. Everything I love in firearms was perfected before 1930:

22 Savage
240 Apex (243 is a fake clone)
257 Roberts
6.5x55SE
6.5 Mannlicher
7x57
280 Ross
303 Brit
300 H&H
318 Westley
333 Jeffery
350 Rigby
375 Holland
404 Jeff
470 NE
577 NE

If one of those is lacking for a given task, you probably ought not do that task.

@rookhawk
You left it the Whelen mate. That was pre 1930.
Me thinks y'all need to start another love affair.
Bob

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[Grandpa Moose]

It's sort of true. When calibers get improved and reintroduced they tend to be too much of a good thing. Everything I love in firearms was perfected before 1930:

22 Savage
240 Apex (243 is a fake clone)
257 Roberts
6.5x55SE
6.5 Mannlicher
7x57
280 Ross
303 Brit
300 H&H
318 Westley
333 Jeffery
350 Rigby
375 Holland
404 Jeff
470 NE
577 NE

If one of those is lacking for a given task, you probably ought not do that task.

What no 30-06

 

[yamoon]

It's sort of true. When calibers get improved and reintroduced they tend to be too much of a good thing. Everything I love in firearms was perfected before 1930:

22 Savage
240 Apex (243 is a fake clone)
257 Roberts
6.5x55SE
6.5 Mannlicher
7x57
280 Ross
303 Brit
300 H&H
318 Westley
333 Jeffery
350 Rigby
375 Holland
404 Jeff
470 NE
577 NE

If one of those is lacking for a given task, you probably ought not do that task.

I was born in 1943 and own way too many rifles, all but 2 are older than I am, a #1v 25-06 and sorry to say, a Mannlicher Schoenauer MCA 243.
Mike

 

[steve white]

View attachment 686379

Yeah, but if I didn't eat what they gave me right away, my two brothers would grab it and wolf it down!

 

[Newboomer]

What no 30-06

Yeah. He missed all the good old lever action brush guns, Too.

 

[Jeff505]

It's sort of true. When calibers get improved and reintroduced they tend to be too much of a good thing. Everything I love in firearms was perfected before 1930:

22 Savage
240 Apex (243 is a fake clone)
257 Roberts
6.5x55SE
6.5 Mannlicher
7x57
280 Ross
303 Brit
300 H&H
318 Westley
333 Jeffery
350 Rigby
375 Holland
404 Jeff
470 NE
577 NE

If one of those is lacking for a given task, you probably ought not do that task.The 3006 has had more impact then any round listed, deer, Germans, Japs, North Koreans, Viet Kong, bears, hogs almost anything that walks. In the hands of a well trained American or ally there had not been a more devastating or eventful round in the last 100+ years.

 

[Jeff505]

To continue this thought. Elk, moose, bear, caribou, big horn sheep, javelina, wolf, coyote, all varmits smaller then these and every plains game that walks the continent of Africa. There might be some consternation because this might not be considered a classical round. It’s not, this is a no nonsense, take no prisoners round and is still laying low those who have it coming. I like big calibers and have a plethora of guns to attest this fact. If it ever came down to fighting for freedom then the 3006s comes back out and I will try and walk in the foot steps of those who have relied on this round before me. Oh, I like the other rounds mentioned also.