Thread: 300 PRC thoughts for a new guy

Originally Posted by chainsaw

3006 or 308 would be far better choices for all round hunting rifle in 30cal

Or 30 06 Ackley Improved

I'd do what lots of folks here are suggesting and start with something more common and not as large. It'll be cheaper and easier to improve your shooting with.

Instead of .308, I'd get something that'll do the business on deer but won't be made redundant by upgrading to a magnum cartridge, like a .243. It'll push a deer over at shorter ranges and when you do upgrade to a magnum, it'll still have a purpose as a smaller deer gun, bush gun (lots of the magnums have long barrels), goat gun, something teenagers can get behind for their first deer, long-range rabbit plinker, or whatever is your fancy.

For the NI where hunting is fallow, sika, and where the reds are typically a bit smaller, this would be the go but I notice you're in the south island. Someone else might have to pipe in about the size of the deer down there and how well a .243 would go.

id agree with the rest of these as well

270 for the south island and 308 for the north
anything similar to either would be fine but a magnum will be very expensive to shoot and boot like a mule

300prc is bloody awesum full stop.
don't want to wreck all the meat? don't shoot it in the meaty bit, pretty simple. neck shots all day long!

i use mine for shooting anything and everything, best tops rifle cartridge money can buy.

get one, you will love it.

Just a Tikka superlite in 308. Does everything in NZ

Originally Posted by WOPASS

best tops rifle cartridge money can buy.

Correct. IF you have a lot of money

And are fit as fuck

And are built like a brick shithouse to soak up the recoil

Otherwise do what the plebs do and get yourself an accurate as buggery, cheap to shoot, common garden variety calibre and keep the PRC for range time.

Originally Posted by wnoteboom

Kind of new to the hunting scene, but have been shooting on and off for a good while. I want to buy a rifle (can afford only one at this point) that will serve me well for target shooting and deer hunting (tops ideally). Have been considering a 300 PRC which would be great long distance cartridge at the range, but I don’t know how it would be as a hunting round. Is it too much for deer that are, say, at 100m? Will it be too powerful to open up in the deer and just go right through and only wound? Advice and suggestions welcomed heartily.

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the expertise. Today I got myself a Tikka .308 (one of the strata ones) and a Leupold VX-5HD. Stoked with it! May it serve me well for many years!

Greetings,
I bought my first new rifle in the late 1970's. It was a Rem 700 .308. It is still here and it is not going anywhere.
QED.
Grandpamac.
For these not familiar with QED, roughly translated from the Latin it says "All that was set out to prove has been proved".
Hopefully you still have yours in 45 years.

Originally Posted by wnoteboom

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the expertise. Today I got myself a Tikka .308 (one of the strata ones) and a Leupold VX-5HD. Stoked with it! May it serve me well for many years!

Well done , you probably brought the perfect rifle combo right there , do your ears a favour a get a suppressor when you can , now get into it , go hunting and knock some animals over with it .

Originally Posted by wnoteboom

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the expertise. Today I got myself a Tikka .308 (one of the strata ones) and a Leupold VX-5HD. Stoked with it! May it serve me well for many years!

Great decision

You cannot overkill a deer. The 300 will be fine if that's what you want to shoot. Just choose the correct projectile for the game and distance you are hunting.

Originally Posted by wnoteboom

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the expertise. Today I got myself a Tikka .308 (one of the strata ones) and a Leupold VX-5HD. Stoked with it! May it serve me well for many years!

Exactly what I shoot.

270

Originally Posted by wnoteboom

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the expertise. Today I got myself a Tikka .308 (one of the strata ones) and a Leupold VX-5HD. Stoked with it! May it serve me well for many years!

Well done. Great choice. The cheapest rifle you ever buy is the one you never sell

Originally Posted by wnoteboom

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the expertise. Today I got myself a Tikka .308 (one of the strata ones) and a Leupold VX-5HD. Stoked with it! May it serve me well for many years!

Good choice, and nice to you've put good glass on it. Look forward to further updates and pic's of the animals you've shot.