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    dog chaser distant stalker's Avatar
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    I have a suppressed 19" 284 and a 26" rem mag. The 284 is a much nicer do everything carry around rifle that can reach out if i really need to. If im going tahr hunting where longer range can be more of the norm i take the rem mag. For predominantly under 500 occasionally reaching beyond id be looking at a nicer handling 284. If looking to focus in the 5-700 range more frequently something with a bit more grunt is worth the associated weight of longer barrel, different stock design etc. Ive shot my rem mag to 1300 on steel but limit to 700 on animals and even then it is a very rare occasion i actually need to shoot that far and cant get closer. Pretty easy to make a mistake when in the field and dont want to wound animals so try to save the longer stuff for lower consequence targets (steel/rocks/cow poo )
    Last edited by distant stalker; 01-01-2019 at 11:32 PM. Reason: Typos
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