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Best for South Alabama #2033675
02/20/17 02:47 PM
02/20/17 02:47 PM
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Mobile Al,
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flounderpounder Offline OP
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Mobile Al,
Im in for a new rifle but cant settle on a caliber. I thought a 7mm mag was my favorite, great trajectory small bullet good ballistics but shoot an 80lb doe at 50yds and 400yds later you will find her with a pencil hole going in and out. I switched to ballistic tips and would tear up half of the deer with trama and ruin the meat. I pulled the trigger on a deer twice with my new .243 and had two dead deer but I am not that confident in it yet.. Here in South Alabama where your biggest deer would be 190lbs and most you shoot for the table around 100lbs, what is the perfect caliber for this area???

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033678
02/20/17 02:50 PM
02/20/17 02:50 PM
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flounderpounder Offline OP
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I thought about a .260 but a very knowledgeable gunsmith told me its hard to find a good accurate factory round for them and most people reload. What about a 25-06? All signs point to a .308 though.

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033680
02/20/17 02:54 PM
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North Jackson
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North Jackson
.308


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Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033682
02/20/17 02:55 PM
02/20/17 02:55 PM
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Heart of Dixie
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Heart of Dixie
30/06

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033685
02/20/17 02:58 PM
02/20/17 02:58 PM
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Auburn Al
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I love my 308 and 7mm-08

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033699
02/20/17 03:16 PM
02/20/17 03:16 PM
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Alabama
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Alabama
308 or 7mm-08

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033703
02/20/17 03:24 PM
02/20/17 03:24 PM
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Albertville
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Albertville
7mm 08. Love this round.


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Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: PapaJ] #2033708
02/20/17 03:28 PM
02/20/17 03:28 PM
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chilton, co.
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chilton, co.
I like a 7mm-08. That's all I hunted with this past season and I killed 3 hogs, and 5 deer. It's just like any other caliber though, you have to hit them in the right spot.


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Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033710
02/20/17 03:29 PM
02/20/17 03:29 PM
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Spanish Fort
Short action - .308 or 7mm 08
Long Action - 30-06 or 270

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033714
02/20/17 03:31 PM
02/20/17 03:31 PM
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Marshall county
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Marshall county
308


Cat doctor
Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033715
02/20/17 03:32 PM
02/20/17 03:32 PM
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Wetumpka, AL
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Wetumpka, AL
257 weatherby

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033720
02/20/17 03:37 PM
02/20/17 03:37 PM
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Between the coosa and cahaba
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Between the coosa and cahaba
308 3006 are my favorites. Throw those blister tips in the trash where they belong and get some barns ttsx. It separates them from their soul really fast.


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Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: ColeT] #2033724
02/20/17 03:40 PM
02/20/17 03:40 PM
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Mobile Al,
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flounderpounder Offline OP
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Originally Posted By: ColeT
257 weatherby

is 257 weatherby much different than a 25-06?

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033728
02/20/17 03:44 PM
02/20/17 03:44 PM
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Awbarn, AL
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30-06


The Corn Crash!!!
Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033730
02/20/17 03:45 PM
02/20/17 03:45 PM
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St.Clair Co.
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I love my 25-06 however your deer will run if you don't hit them in the shoulder. My favorite is my .308.

Last edited by UADeerHunter; 02/20/17 03:54 PM.
Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033735
02/20/17 03:48 PM
02/20/17 03:48 PM
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Wetumpka, AL
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Originally Posted By: flounderpounder
Originally Posted By: ColeT
257 weatherby

is 257 weatherby much different than a 25-06?

A few hundred fps faster. I don't have a 25-06 but I'd like one.

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033756
02/20/17 04:05 PM
02/20/17 04:05 PM
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South Alabama
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30-06. I've never had a deer get away. Plus you'll always have enough gun for shooting distance. Most shots at our camp were 200 or much less. That changed when they clear cut the property this year.

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033763
02/20/17 04:10 PM
02/20/17 04:10 PM
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Bay Minette, AL
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I'd look more at the terrain you'll be hunting rather than the size of the deer.

Hard to do better than the .308 for most hunting conditions, especially if you load your own.

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033783
02/20/17 04:24 PM
02/20/17 04:24 PM
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Hoover
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308

165 gr ammo

Re: Best for South Alabama [Re: flounderpounder] #2033819
02/20/17 04:41 PM
02/20/17 04:41 PM
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North Jackson
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Can't get no deader than dead.


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