MISportsman
Member
I am starting this thread just for fun and curiosity...
In all of the outdoor forums why is there never any love for the 7.62x54r? Any discussion I read about its use for big game it is always said to be good for deer, but marginal at best for anything bigger and forget about anything with teeth. But to me a cartridge that has similar ballistics to the .30-06 and at range with the right bullet can almost hang with the .300 win mag with a slightly wider bullet should have no problem dispatching just about anything on the face of the earth! I have hunted deer with my mosin nagant and it makes very quick work of a Michigan whitetail, might even use it for black bear next fall too. I just wish someone would build a modern rifle chambered in it!
In all of the outdoor forums why is there never any love for the 7.62x54r? Any discussion I read about its use for big game it is always said to be good for deer, but marginal at best for anything bigger and forget about anything with teeth. But to me a cartridge that has similar ballistics to the .30-06 and at range with the right bullet can almost hang with the .300 win mag with a slightly wider bullet should have no problem dispatching just about anything on the face of the earth! I have hunted deer with my mosin nagant and it makes very quick work of a Michigan whitetail, might even use it for black bear next fall too. I just wish someone would build a modern rifle chambered in it!