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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: Big Game Hunter]
#2631859
11/07/18 10:17 PM
11/07/18 10:17 PM
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 18,956 colbert county
cartervj
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Pick the cartridge/gun for your situation. I never hunted with the STW in a hardwood drain and I never hunted a large cutover with a 30-30.
I will nominate the 6.5 Creedmoor since the hoopla I've heard and then I checked out the ballistics. It has been a head scratcher hearing that it was similar to a 300 WM in performance. I've also heard it will run at 3200 fps.
No doubt it performs and performs very well on paper and deer, it's just not as magical as some claim.
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ― Ronald Reagan
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: Goatkiller]
#2631862
11/07/18 10:22 PM
11/07/18 10:22 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 882 Trussville, AL
keith5579
6 point
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6 point
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.... I haven't figured out.... it is just a .260.
The Creedmoor is an improvement over the .260 when seating the high BC bullets out long and not having OAL issues in magazines--especially when chasing the lands. Better velocity with the .260 but better factory ammunition options with the CM.
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: Big Game Hunter]
#2631879
11/07/18 10:33 PM
11/07/18 10:33 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
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257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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N. Bama
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I have a 260 and 6.5 creed. Both shoot lights out.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: Big Game Hunter]
#2631936
11/08/18 12:14 AM
11/08/18 12:14 AM
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Posts: 16,495 Guntersville
AC870
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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I dunno if anyone else has noticed but 7mm-08 ammo always costs a little more. That’s my experience anyway. If .243 and .308 is $21 a box, same brand of 7-08 is $28.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands: “The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: AC870]
#2631939
11/08/18 12:27 AM
11/08/18 12:27 AM
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Beadlescomb
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I dunno if anyone else has noticed but 7mm-08 ammo always costs a little more. That’s my experience anyway. If .243 and .308 is $21 a box, same brand of 7-08 is $28. If you can find it 7mm08 stays sold out around tuscaloosa
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: Beadlescomb]
#2631947
11/08/18 12:47 AM
11/08/18 12:47 AM
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Bull64
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I dunno if anyone else has noticed but 7mm-08 ammo always costs a little more. That’s my experience anyway. If .243 and .308 is $21 a box, same brand of 7-08 is $28. If you can find it 7mm08 stays sold out around tuscaloosa And all that doesn't make sense to me....
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: Big Game Hunter]
#2631957
11/08/18 01:41 AM
11/08/18 01:41 AM
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boker
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To me the most overrated caliber is an individual thing . I have a buddy that praises the 270 but on the other hand dogs the 30/06 to the point it’s annoying. I believe various calibers are like different size wrenches, they all have their purpose. A 30/30 isn’t the best at shooting 500 yards and a 300 mag isn’t the best brush gun.
boker
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: Bull64]
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11/08/18 06:51 AM
11/08/18 06:51 AM
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Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 14,029 Some Marriott/Auburn
AU7MM08
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Booner
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I dunno if anyone else has noticed but 7mm-08 ammo always costs a little more. That’s my experience anyway. If .243 and .308 is $21 a box, same brand of 7-08 is $28. If you can find it 7mm08 stays sold out around tuscaloosa And all that doesn't make sense to me.... I can only assume it has to do with production volume. Even when you compare 6.5Creedmoor shooting an identical weight bullet and a powder charge that I assume is identical also. I could be totally off but yes I've noticed it also.
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: JohnnyLoco]
#2631991
11/08/18 07:00 AM
11/08/18 07:00 AM
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Posts: 18,083 North AL
AU338MAG
Old Mossy Horns
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Y’all make me laugh with the “Creedmore” stuff. It reminds me of anything named “Rigby” My dog is named Rigby.
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
Molon Labe
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: Bull64]
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11/08/18 08:55 AM
11/08/18 08:55 AM
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Posts: 4,622 Alabama
Rmart30
10 point
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I dunno if anyone else has noticed but 7mm-08 ammo always costs a little more. That’s my experience anyway. If .243 and .308 is $21 a box, same brand of 7-08 is $28. If you can find it 7mm08 stays sold out around tuscaloosa And all that doesn't make sense to me.... Thats why you find what your rifle likes and stock up some when its on sale. Once or twice a year you can find it on sale $12-16 a box online. I found 7mm08 federal premiums a while back on sale for $9, yes nine dollars a box with free shipping. As for over rated it would be the 6.5 Creedmoor. With all the hype you would think it does things no other caliber has ever done. Its a fine caliber with good balance of recoil and ballistics but for hunting purposes take it, a 260 and a 7mm08 and ya wouldnt know the difference.
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching - even when doing the wrong thing is legal. Aldo Leopold .. (except when it comes to trailer tags)
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Re: Most Overrated Caliber
[Re: Big Game Hunter]
#2632328
11/08/18 01:09 PM
11/08/18 01:09 PM
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Bull64
10 point
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Well,you need to be sharing these ammo sales .17 hmr I can get it done just as good with the .22 wmr.....
Last edited by Bull64; 11/08/18 01:17 PM.
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