Flat shooting medium caliber?

[GunsBeerFreedom]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the 260 Remington.

 

[JimKirk]

One more vote for the 25/06! I've been shooting one since Remington turned it into a commercial round in 1969. I believe I got mine in late '69 or early '70. It's been a deer and hog killer for me. I normally shoot 115-120 gr. bullets in it and have a measured 400 yd. shot on a large Whitetail down a gas pipeline. I know Mule deer are larger than WT deer, but we have some good sized corn and soybean fed deer here. I've never shot a mule deer, but if I were going to, I would chose the 115-120 gr.. The Sierra 117 SPBT Gameking works well for me.
.257 Sierra GameKing 117 gr. .410 BC @ 3100 FPS
4" Radius Vital Zone
Zeroed @ 286
Point Blank Range 335 Yds. with 1428.7 Ft.-lbs energy
Bullet never Is over 4" above line of sight nor lower than 4" ...0 to 335 yards

Jimmy K

 

[Eb1]

.25-06

Is the go to round for me now. With 115 grain Combined Technologies Ballistic Tip. i don't think there is a deer or elk around that would live through it. That bullets is great for all situations. Also it is the most accurate rifle caliber I have ever shot. Yep! .25-06 is my $.02.

 

[joed]

I'm finding it interesting what some views on small, medium and big calibers are. More then anything I think it matters where you are in the world. Someone from Africa may consider a .30 small. In the Continental US I consider a .30 as large, .25 as medium and .22 as small. These are just my views, YMMV.

 

[wishin]

Flyfrod

Excerpt from an evaluation article of the 6.8SPC:

"Most civilian shooters won't be doing urban CQB or 600 yard engagements in the Afghan mountains, however the 6.8 SPC is perfectly suited to more mundane uses. Intermediate-power cartridges like .257 Roberts, .250/3000, .300 Savage and most notably .30-30 have been used for over a hundred years to harvest deer and other North-American game. The 6.8 SPC fits right in with these venerable choices. While an anti-personnel round should have dramatic fragmentation and 12-inch minimum penetration, most big-game hunters want a bullet which will penetrate the muscle and bone of a deer's shoulder and still produce an exit wound for tracking. This suggests that a good choice for deer would be a stoutly-constructed bullet, such as the new 110-grain Barnes TSX, made entirely of a copper alloy."

 

[ArmedBear]

It does fit right in with all those obsolete cartridges, which work fine for small deer in the woods (not muleys at 400 yards), and none of which are "flat-shooting" or "medium" by modern standards. That's exactly my point. It's not anywhere near the same league as a 7mm-08, to say nothing of a 7mm RemMag.

most big-game hunters want a bullet which will penetrate the muscle and bone of a deer's shoulder and still produce an exit wound for tracking

Most modern hunters want a cartridge that will minimize the need for tracking, hence the decline in popularity of the cartridges listed...

Seriously, mule deer are big, and at 400 yards, a 6.8 has even less left in it than it did at the muzzle, which isn't much. 115 grains going 1600 fps is hardly muley worthy.

 

[R.W.Dale]

shhH! Armedbear they don't like it when you question the SPC koolaid

 

[Uncle Mike]

they don't like it when you question the SPC koolaid

Some people still believe in the Easter Bunny too!

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the 260 Remington.

I did in post 38.

SPC koolaid -mmm, mmm, good!

 

[scythefwd]

Uncle Mike, of course the easter bunny was real. He fried up nicely