Thread: What caliber?

Originally Posted by Toby132

does it have anything over the rem mag?

Nice and efficient goes well in short barrels and fits in a short action or tikka properly,

700m.... What are you looking at shooting? Please say it's Taliban?

Ethics are personal but 700 on anything outside a warzone is a bit much in my mind.

Can and should are different beasts.

Sorry to be a dick but that's a long fu.... way. If gong shooting then hey, go hard.

You can happily shoot a 5.5 - 6lb rifle in 284 or SAUM, bit more challenging with RM.

I would prefer the 7mmRem mag but the 7mm Weatherby mag or 270 Weatherby mag could also be worth a look. Rem mag is the easiest of the ones mentioned to find brass and ammo for which is a big up for a lot of people. Rock into any / most ammo shops and there will be something there.

Short n fat is where its at....300wsm

Suggest you try shooting the different options suggested before laying out $. If you were up my way you’d be welcome to shoot most of above mentioned

@Dundee his .22

Well you can choose your calibre (7mm, .308 etc) and then select a cartridge (7mm Rem Mag, .300 Win Mag etc) in that calibre....

Just to be a fussy git.

Your 6.5 Creedmoor will kill things at 700m without too much difficulty assuming you use a 147gr ELD-M for example.

But a magnum chambering is a better bet cos that’s what they are for.

What I always say (preach / rant / go on and on as my kids would say) is to be very very careful when stepping up to the magnums and pointing it at far away animals. It takes a lot of practice to learn how to shoot them accurately if you’ve only been using a low recoil cartridge like the Creedmoor.

Lots of things go wrong if you’re not used to recoil. Even the best and most experienced shooters of non-magnums can develop a flinch with a magnum. Its not a question of how manly you are, just a human reaction. You’ll need to burn a lot of ammo to test yourself at 700m+ with a magnum, to learn the drops, the windage.

The 7mm Rem Mag is a bankable cartridge. A world class winner. So is the .300 Win Mag. The WSMs are worth a look. The .270 WSM is often overlooked. I’d be all over a .300 WSM too. A 28 Nosler would be drool material but a bit of a hard to find wildcard.

But I’d want to know I had somewhere to go shoot it a lot before I went hunting with it. Easier said than done for many of us.

Ask yourself why so many low-round-count magnums are for sale.

My .30/06 with 167 grain Lapua Scenars goes really well to 1,000 metres plus. I run a 26" barrel with AR2213SC for 2950 fps and 0.5 MOA. I have also just got a .338 LM (Savage Stealth) for longer ranges but still in the load development stage.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Heard of suppressors? Dock 2-4", add a suppressor, recover the lost velocity through hand loading.

Sorry mate couldn't hear what you said ?

1000 + is far

Originally Posted by timattalon

I would prefer the 7mmRem mag but the 7mm Weatherby mag or 270 Weatherby mag could also be worth a look. Rem mag is the easiest of the ones mentioned to find brass and ammo for which is a big up for a lot of people. Rock into any / most ammo shops and there will be something there.

I wouldnt think a short barrel would give the increase in speed would be worth all that xtra powder

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I dont handload for the creedmoor yet but would handload if I got another rifle. At the moment we put 143 grain eld x through it and get .8 of an inch at 100 meters. Its a 20 inch barrel so im going to assume the bullets are going very slow. Anyway 7 rem mag does appeal to me but id have to shoot one first to see what iv got to deal with. Theres a club down here called the Taranaki long range shooters, so I might have to go and ask nicely if there is one there. I think they shoot gongs out to 1000+ there as well. Range isn't a problem. I can shoot out to 500 meters on my property and then there is the club which I might join.

Originally Posted by Toby132

I dont handload for the creedmoor yet but would handload if I got another rifle. At the moment we put 143 grain eld x through it and get .8 of an inch at 100 meters. Its a 20 inch barrel so im going to assume the bullets are going very slow. Anyway 7 rem mag does appeal to me but id have to shoot one first to see what iv got to deal with. Theres a club down here called the Taranaki long range shooters, so I might have to go and ask nicely if there is one there. I think they shoot gongs out to 1000+ there as well. Range isn't a problem. I can shoot out to 500 meters on my property and then there is the club which I might join.

Join up to that club mate awesome bunch of guys contact Graham Bishop a lot of them shoot 6.5 Creedmore as well as 7mmRem mag I shoot .260 and 7mmsaum.

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Originally Posted by Flyblown

Well you can choose your calibre (7mm, .308 etc) and then select a cartridge (7mm Rem Mag, .300 Win Mag etc) in that calibre....

Just to be a fussy git.

Your 6.5 Creedmoor will kill things at 700m without too much difficulty assuming you use a 147gr ELD-M for example.

But a magnum chambering is a better bet cos that’s what they are for.

What I always say (preach / rant / go on and on as my kids would say) is to be very very careful when stepping up to the magnums and pointing it at far away animals. It takes a lot of practice to learn how to shoot them accurately if you’ve only been using a low recoil cartridge like the Creedmoor.

Lots of things go wrong if you’re not used to recoil. Even the best and most experienced shooters of non-magnums can develop a flinch with a magnum. Its not a question of how manly you are, just a human reaction. You’ll need to burn a lot of ammo to test yourself at 700m+ with a magnum, to learn the drops, the windage.

The 7mm Rem Mag is a bankable cartridge. A world class winner. So is the .300 Win Mag. The WSMs are worth a look. The .270 WSM is often overlooked. I’d be all over a .300 WSM too. A 28 Nosler would be drool material but a bit of a hard to find wildcard.

But I’d want to know I had somewhere to go shoot it a lot before I went hunting with it. Easier said than done for many of us.

Ask yourself why so many low-round-count magnums are for sale.

There's lots of low round count Magnum's for sale cos the throats been worn smooth lol

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