re: New Deer Rifle

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Ammo stocks on shelves have gotten better but still aren’t back to where they were 4 years ago. The internet is a wonderful thing but it’s nice to go walk through a store like academy and grab an extra box of bullets and a bag or two of plastic worms just because you’re already there, 28 nosler will never get to the level 7 mag will.

As someone who shoots a 7 mag as my primary deer rifle, it is way over kill for where I hunt. I bought it as a 20yo who hunted with a .243 up until that point, purely over compensating, 15 years later it’s a comfort and confidence deal

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7mm08 is your answer

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all you’d ever need for whitetail, I’d opt for more umph on elk

If I’m buying a gun for elk hunting I’m buying a separate gun for deer hunting.

I’m kind of a minimum .300 win mag for elk. Yes there are a lot of calibers that will kill one, but I want to be sure that if I make a good shot it’s going down.

For deer, the .308 is probably the best caliber made for deer hunting in the south. A .308 with a 16 or 18” barrel is the perfect southern deer hunting gun.

I don’t remember the rifle model because I bought it from a buddy on a whim. It’s a 16 inch Christensen Arms .308 with Sitka pattern stock. Zeiss V6 scope and Primal can on it.

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Help a brotha’ out. Where are you finding rounds? Or are you reloading?

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7mm rem mag is as easy to find as 308, 270,and 30-06.

I don't buy ammo. I handload but if you can't find bullets for 7MM REM MAG, you aren't even looking.

I’ve been shooting a .300wsm for about 10 years now. Sako 85. I don’t see myself shooting anything else. My 13 year old son shot a doe at 381 yds yesterday. She didn’t make it 5 yds.

I just started shooting a 7mm 08 that my dad bought me for Christmas last yr. Thing is an absolute tack driver, little recoil, and has dropped two deer where they stood. I won’t go back to anything else, unless I decide to shoot my grandpas lever action 30-30 some day.

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I’m kind of a minimum .300 win mag for elk. Yes there are a lot of calibers that will kill one, but I want to be sure that if I make a good shot it’s going down.

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Yea, if I’m spending significant time and money on an elk hunt, I want to bring a gun that’s going to give me the best opportunity to take an ethical shot.

Many elk have been taken with a .243, but there are much better tools out there.

If you want one gun to cover both deer and elk, I would go on the heavier side. 7mag, .300 mag, 30-06, .308 at the lightest.

I’d get this beautiful Marlin in 45-70.

Baw you stylin’. Do you have fender flares to match your britches and rifle?