Greg that is a Winchester 1895 or copy.
30-06 or 300 WM? Let's hear it...
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Beautiful gun! I'd have only levers, but nah, why limit myself
Greg
Beautiful gun! I'd have only levers, but nah, why limit myself
Greg
High mountain hunts with heavy rifles suck. Belted magnums in light weight rifles are miserable. I take a little heavier than normal 280ai myself (it's a rifle I'm extremely familiar with) but for lots of up and down hiking a light weight model 7 in 308 or 7mm-08 are far nice to carry and every bit as effective out to 300-400 yards. Of the elk I've killed most have been 100 yards or less, two have been closer to 300 yards. If you are basing your ideas on elk hunting by what you've seen on hunting shows, throw out there ideas of magnums being necessary. They shoot elk at long distance to brag about how far they shot, not because they had no way of getting closer. Of your choices I'd go with an 06, keep it light, and drop the bullet weight to 165 or maybe even 150. The idea of 180 grain 30 cal bullets for elk is based on cup and core bullets. You need mono bullets going fast for good expansion.
Blackops;
I live in rural Montana, hunt elk every year. You've been advised to forget the 26" barrel and I'll second that opinion. I don't know where you live, but a lot of elk hunting is done in territory where you can hunt both sides of one acre. You don't need the ungainly length and weight. To my mind the .30-06 is fine, but if you feel the need for more, go .338 Winchester magnum, not Lapua.
In point of fact, these days most of the time I hunt elk it's with a 6.5 Swede. And I don't feel in the least under-gunned.
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I live in rural Montana, hunt elk every year. You've been advised to forget the 26" barrel and I'll second that opinion. I don't know where you live, but a lot of elk hunting is done in territory where you can hunt both sides of one acre. You don't need the ungainly length and weight. To my mind the .30-06 is fine, but if you feel the need for more, go .338 Winchester magnum, not Lapua.
In point of fact, these days most of the time I hunt elk it's with a 6.5 Swede. And I don't feel in the least under-gunned.
900F
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I'd go with the .300 Win Mag. For a bolt gun that you'll be carrying a lot, shooting a little, but need power when you do shoot, you should get the .300 Win Mag vice the .30-06. That said, the .30-06 has a variety of loadings ranging from varmint rounds to 200+ grain big game rounds and the ammo is more available and popular than .300 Win Mag.
I hunt in the high Rockies with a 10 lbs 375H&H. It is not miserable. I am not in great shape and have asthma but if I can hack it anyone can.
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