swampcrawler
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Let me start by saying I wasn't sure how to title this. Hopefully it was clear enough. I've been considering going to a lighter cartridge for deer and hogs for quite a while now. I've always used a .308 and 45/70, which of course work perfectly.
I understand that the 308 and it's offspring as well as the larger cartridges are and will likely always be the preferred class of cartridges for medium to large game. However, with the proliferation of the AR as a hunting platform and the Mighty Mite cartridges that came along with it, it seems that more and more positive examples of the performance of lighter cartridges surface each year.
I'd like to know your real world experiences with anything that could be considered a "light" cartridge for the game taken. Be it 243 for elk, 30-30 for moose, 45/70 in Africa , or particularly 300 blk, 6.8 spc, 223, and 6.5 Grendel for anything deer and hog or larger.
Perhaps more importantly I'm also very interested in NEGATIVE personal experience with the same. It is easy to find positive first hand accounts and negative anecdotal accounts, but a bit more uncommon to see good, firsthand experience by knowledgeable shooters of the failure of cartridges in the field.
As always, the more details and pictures the better!
Apologies for being a bit long winded. Hopefully we can get a good compilation of info going here!
I understand that the 308 and it's offspring as well as the larger cartridges are and will likely always be the preferred class of cartridges for medium to large game. However, with the proliferation of the AR as a hunting platform and the Mighty Mite cartridges that came along with it, it seems that more and more positive examples of the performance of lighter cartridges surface each year.
I'd like to know your real world experiences with anything that could be considered a "light" cartridge for the game taken. Be it 243 for elk, 30-30 for moose, 45/70 in Africa , or particularly 300 blk, 6.8 spc, 223, and 6.5 Grendel for anything deer and hog or larger.
Perhaps more importantly I'm also very interested in NEGATIVE personal experience with the same. It is easy to find positive first hand accounts and negative anecdotal accounts, but a bit more uncommon to see good, firsthand experience by knowledgeable shooters of the failure of cartridges in the field.
As always, the more details and pictures the better!
Apologies for being a bit long winded. Hopefully we can get a good compilation of info going here!