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re: New Deer Rifle
Posted on 10/2/25 at 9:11 pm to tigersgeauxballzdeep
Posted on 10/2/25 at 9:11 pm to tigersgeauxballzdeep
Last season I was hunting with my 300wsm on a 90yd field. It’s a tikka lite veil, 24” barrel with a Q thunder chicken on it. It’s a narrow field so I leave it in the window of the shooting house. I was looking at it and realized how ridiculous it was. Felt like the gun stuck out halfway to the feeder. Anyway, just bought a tikka roughtech ranch in 308 with 16” barrel and put a cgs Hyperion k on it. It’s awesome and shoots great. Non of my food plots are over 200yds so this one will work fine for all of them.
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Posted on 10/2/25 at 9:28 pm to tigersgeauxballzdeep
I have a Tikka 6.5 PRC and absolutely love it. I put an Eliminator 5 scope on it and I’m comfortable and confident out to about 600 yards.
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 8:22 am
Posted on 10/2/25 at 10:46 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
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I built an AR in 6.5 Grendel and it’s been fantastic.
cannot be overstated.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 10:47 pm to magicman534
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Last season I was hunting with my 300wsm on a 90yd field. It’s a tikka lite veil, 24” barrel with a Q thunder chicken on it. It’s a narrow field so I leave it in the window of the shooting house. I was looking at it and realized how ridiculous it was. Felt like the gun stuck out halfway to the feeder. Anyway, just bought a tikka roughtech ranch in 308 with 16” barrel and put a cgs Hyperion k on it. It’s awesome and shoots great. Non of my food plots are over 200yds so this one will work fine for all of them.
Hyperion K’s are great for a short can. I use it on my longer custom guns to keep it from being ridiculous
Posted on 10/2/25 at 11:20 pm to tigersgeauxballzdeep
I have a 30 06 I use mostly because I hate tracking deer. I would recommend a 270 for Arkansas
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:12 am to tigersgeauxballzdeep
I’m shooting a 6.5 PRC from a Tikka and Vortex optic. This gun is an excellent weapon. 3 shots to dial. Since that moment, it’s put deer, hog, nilgai down at 200+ yards. Spot n stalk out from 600 yards. Just an absolute steal for under $2k w optic.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:27 am to SenseiBuddy
I wouldn’t trust a vortex optic outside of there razor line if they paid me.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 5:09 am to Rize
I got a Vortex to go on a 6.8 SPC AR I had built and it would not group. Finally took it back and returned it. That’s my only experience with a Vortex.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 5:17 am to Hawgeye
I have a Weatherby 7mm PRC that I just used on a successful Elk hunt but it will not be going on my whitetail hunts this year. It is an incredible gun and i have taken it out to 1000 yards at the range. Light with no recoil and drives tacks However for deer I have been using an old Remington 742 Woodsmaster .308 for the last 50+ years and it never fails to deliver. I can't remember the last time i had to attempt a shot at a deer in Louisiana at over 150 yards. Ammo is plenty and not expensive. The ammo I am shooting in my 7 mm PRC is 3X the cost of the .308.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 6:08 am to Woodsmaster
I got mine for the elk/muley hunt but also in Arkansas I hunt a highline that I can shoot out to 500 in one direction and about 315 in the other and another spot on the edge of a clear cut that I have food plot lanes that stretch out about 250 yards in each direction…in Oklahoma I have a spot on a pipeline ROW that I can go about 400 in each direction.
So it comes in handy for me…
So it comes in handy for me…
Posted on 10/3/25 at 6:51 am to tigersgeauxballzdeep
I really like the 7PRC. I bought one last year in a fierce and made a load with it in a 180gr Berger. I had it shooting 1/2moa and could take it out to 1000 yards. I really enjoyed how light it was and low recoil. I ended up taking an elk at 500 yards. It dropped after about a 50 yard wobbly walk.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:09 am to Rize
Understand. Not my best purchase. But it’s currently working.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:29 am to SenseiBuddy
quote:The fun part is you get to upgrade it in a year or two
Understand. Not my best purchase. But it’s currently working.
Then turn around and slap that vortex on a ruger ranch 6.5 Grendel and you have an awesome set up as a camp truck gun
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 9:30 am
Posted on 10/3/25 at 10:12 am to wryder1
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really like the 7PRC
The whole PRC line is basically the pinnacle of conventional centerfire cartridge and chamber design. That's what you get when you have powerful computer design and simulation programs to work with and start with a nearly clean slate vs just necking stuff that already exists down and up. Couple that with the hornady marketing machine and you have something that will sell.
Is it worth selling pawpaw's .30-06 to get one? Not for very many people. The advantages vs conventional stuff don't become apparent till you get out past 600 yards with some wind involved. They are objectively better than the old stuff though.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 10:38 am to TheDrunkenTigah
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A tikka superlite or xbolt speed in 7 prc sounds miserable.
I have a Tikka light 243 that kicks way more than my 12lb 7mm rem mag. My 11 year old loves to shoot the 7mm but he wants no part of the 243 after shooting it once. I don't blame him lol. My 7 rem mag has the recoil of a 223. I need to load some weak 243 for him but he's in love with his 8lb 270 that kicks less than the 243.
The bad thing is my kids can't hold either one of those guns up to shoot. It has to be resting on something. That's why I got the 243. 550 bucks for a NIB Tikka was hard to pass up.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 10:40 am to tigersgeauxballzdeep
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Open to any caliber. I have looked into a 7mm prc in tikka and in browning.
I'd look at 308, 30-06, 270, 7mm rem mag in a a walnut stock first.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 1:34 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Tikka is the correct answer for the rifle.
I don't buy guns often. Last one I bought was actually the now-discontinued Smith and Wesson I-Bolt. I am highly considering a Tikka in .308 as an upgrade.
The S&W is a good little gun though. Guess they just didn't sell. They got hit with a recall on the bolts about a year after they came out and that hurt their rep.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 1:44 pm to tigersgeauxballzdeep
A month ago I bought a Ruger American Gen 2 Predator in .308. Haven't hunted with it yet, but it shot great at the range.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 2:01 pm to MC5601
I did the same thing, went for a 270 WSM about 2008. Shot it for 15 years and went back to a .270 X bolt last year. The WSM ammo was hard to find and the gun/cartridge were hard to make shoot consistently. The .270 was bore sighted and spot on in about 5 shots. Much more comfortable to shoot as well.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 2:02 pm to SenseiBuddy
Those Roughtech Embers, though.
I've got several bolt actions including Browning Hell's Canyons and Christensens. I love shooting the Brownings. I picked up a Tikka Roughtech Ember in 7mm Rem Mag and it very quickly became my favorite bolt action. I love that gun.
I went with Leupold on mine.
I've got several bolt actions including Browning Hell's Canyons and Christensens. I love shooting the Brownings. I picked up a Tikka Roughtech Ember in 7mm Rem Mag and it very quickly became my favorite bolt action. I love that gun.
I went with Leupold on mine.
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 2:21 pm
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