@Bandera - the barrel heats up because you’re shooting Prairie Dogs in 100 degree heat & direct Sun —- and a .243 on Prairie Dogs is like an RPG on deer = More then enough !
And yet many people use a .338 WM for plains game, or a .375 H&H for everything. I don't shoot my.7-08 any more accurately than my .300 WM. I do.not see the point of using the least powerful cartridge possible to make a clean kill. I knew a man that ambushed a water hole and used a .22 Hornet to kill an elk each year. He would place his shot in the eye. It worked for him, but I don't think anyone else would say that it was a good elk cartridge. Bell killed over 800 elephants with a 7x57. I am glad that it is no longer legal anywhere. As Ruark said, "Use Enough Gun."
"...a bit of a mess." Only if that's how you choose to look at it. I'm "uninterested in reason and logic?" I'm n the one that believes in the fairy tale that all rifle cartridges are equal and it's just a matter of shooting well
Good thing nobody wants to eat prairie dogs!
That's probably true. One of the reasons I moved from the .30-06 to the .300 WM was for the improved ability to handle the 200 grain bullets.
Great choice!
@Sabre, I also have a friend that always claims “recoil doen’t bother me” and says he shoots his .300 wm great and has taken running whitetail & many deer with it — and he has. But, when he hunted Elk and had a great Bull at 200 yrds ‘standing broadside’ and off-a-solid-rest he MISSED (twice !). He was completely baffled, later checked his zero and was still ‘dead on’ at 200 yrds. He blamed “heat waves” and optical illusion?? When I mentioned “You likely FLINCHED and shot over bulls back” he was offended. I added “You really wanted that Bull, were more excited then any of the deer (mostly doe) you usually shoot — that extra excitement often adds to a flinch”. He still gets defensive when I bring up that subject years later.
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