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- Dec 28, 2019
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Need a new rifle. 30-06 or 300 RUM. Anyone have an ultra mag? Also looking at a minelab gold monster
Need a new rifle. 30-06 or 300 RUM. Anyone have an ultra mag? Also looking at a minelab gold monster
I couldn't agree more. The 300 is far more than the average person needs to kill an animal or target practice, due to price and availability of ammo.That 06 is going to be way cheaper than the 300 and like SanMan says what are you hunting do you really need the 300.
I use my 300 for long range precision target shooting, so I dont go thru very much ammo maybe a box of 20 when I go out. But to break it down for u, if you plan on shooting alot you need to go by price per bullet. Remington core lokt 20 rds 30-06 is 17.99, Remington core lokt 20 rds 300 win mag 29.99. That is .89 per shell 30-06 vs 1.49 for 300 win mag.I'd also ask first: "whtcha hunting?" And how far away?
And also how often do you plan on shooting? Times/year, rounds/day. That's going to be a punisher without question. Your shoulder AND the barrel throat.
The 300 u have to absolutely get rid of all fear and accept the fact u could be scoped. I have never gotten hit but as soon as u get rid of fear of having the scope hit u and the concussion of the shell going off it will help. Shoot a 300 on the ground like I do and u will see the amazing amount of energy that comes out of that barrel. It will literally send a shockwave 20 ft out of the end of barrel. If u are just hunting animals I'd go with -06.Like SanMan says. What do you want the rifle for? If you hunt, the .06 will kill any animal on the North American continent. Do you hunt or just cutting paper? 0.6 ammo is versatile. I've shot 70 grain sabot rounds (8" high at 100 yds over 150 gr.), up to 180 gr. bronze tips that will go through 1/2" of a flywheel like it had been in a drill press so it can kill an engine block too. Loads I know you can buy off the shelf go to 220gr. and I'd guess some bench loaders might go above that. For deer hunting I like the 125 gr., they tend to stay in the deer instead of a through and through with 150 gr..
A buddy who had a 300 Win Mag and I would sight our guns before season. Notebook paper at 100 yds.. I use iron sights & he used the Win Mag. with glass. We both cut paper 3 times but you could see my 3 holes, his paper had to be pieced together to guess where he'd hit. Amazing destructive power. The main thing I noticed is my buddy started flinching after the first shot. I can shoot a box of .06 and not flinch. Good luck.
Oh boy lol. Either caliber I would reload my own. Maybe a 300 rum is too big, but who says I can’t own one, no matter how massive and uncomfortable the recoil is.
I have a .260 Remington which was a good update on the 6.5 x 54mm M-S or 6.5 x 55 mm Swede. Professional ivory hunter W.D.M. Bell killed over 300 of his 1,000+ elephants with the 6.5 x 54mm M-S. But no one pad any attention to it in the 1990's except metallic silhouette shooters. Then someone comes up with the 6.5 Creedmoor and long-distance shooting out to 1,000 yards and in a few years the available bullets skyrocketed.
When NY opened up this region to rifle big-game hunting (finally!) I went to the store thinking a 7mm-08 but they didn't have any in stock. Or a .280 Rem. The salesman brings out an old, dusty Savage M11 box in .260 Rem with a 1:8" twist and offered me a good price. I had to borrow a reloading manual to look it up. Glad I did because it is just a honey of a caliber for what I need. It's aka a 6.5mm-08; though Ken Waters originally necked up a then-new .243 Win in 1955 and he called it a .263 Express . . . and again it faded quietly into oblivion.
No reason not to own a big-banger. I worked with a guy that had a Ruger No. 1 in .375 H&H just because he wanted to and never hunted anything with it.
That 06 is going to be way cheaper than the 300 and like SanMan says what are you hunting do you really need the 300.