Hunters in search of our biggest bears are better served with more powerful tools, and for serious long-range work in big country something that carries more energy farther downrange might be appropriate. For big bears, I prefer a fast. I used the new Kimber Mountain Ascent in. However, I use both the. It was a busy season; game taken with these two cartridges included both whitetail and mule deer, caribou, and elk here in North America; and a chamois in Europe. Unless one has very specialized needs either cartridge will do pretty much anything an American hunter needs to do…as they have, collectively, for darn near years.
Both are adequately powerful enough for any deer that walks! In October I used a Savage. Considering a small deer in open country the. With a good grain bullet at around feet per second the. With its heavier or grain bullets of larger diameter the. I shoot a grn round which is highly effective. You wont go wrong with either, I just like. Also, Ive shot boar with a grn. Pole-axes them.. Would it be Alaister you were with Last edited: Oct 20, Click to expand Southern Well-Known Member.
Edinburgh Rifles nailed it: 1" in difference maybe at yards between. If you are going to shoot foxes and roe deer, the 90 and gr bullets with less-than-max loads make the. If you are going to shoot big red deer or boar, a gr. But if your quarry starts with regular deer of lbs and goes up to red stags, large boar, moose, bear, large African antelope, then the. Also, with normal loads and situations, both the. Having said that, to me the probably wins out though in terms of wider range of bullet weights to be using, I think its a great cartridge, stood the test of time with very good reason.
I shot my first deer in with a. Didn't really like the calibre then. I've owned four, five,. Twice two of them at the same time. Still didn't really like the calibre then either. I did own a. A world of difference! I now have a. I've now also a. My advice?
Get the. Kalahari Well-Known Member. Just to really stir the pot, get a 7 x 64, everything the should have been and developed years before.
Also it does the 7mm rule in some european countries for boar. T he is not an efficient cartridge in any form.. The same goes for ammunition, so users of these cartridges have plenty of choices when it comes to good quality guns and ammo.
The U. Army designed the. The Army was just coming off the heels of a sobering lesson regarding the effectiveness of the 7mm Mauser in the hands of Spanish troops in Cuba in and wanted a cartridge and rifle that could compete with the revolutionary new Mauser.
Using smokeless powder and a new gr pointed bullet fired at a muzzle velocity of 2,fps, the. As good as the. Around the same time gun designers were necking up the. The resulting. The original. Though the. Unlike all the other popular 7mm cartridges like the 7mm Mauser, 7mm, 7mm Remington Magnum and the. One theory is they choose that particular bullet size based on the obscure 6.
Regardless of their reasons, the design team at Winchester went with a. Interestingly enough, while the. Since the. Due to the fact that the. Note: while the case capacity figures listed below do give a good indication of the differences between the two cartridges, exact case capacities vary slightly according to the brand of brass used. Similar to the difference between the Waters and the. This is because, when compared to the.
For instance, the vast majority of. Of these, grain and grain bullets are by far the most common. The table below compares the gr Nosler AccuBond. As you can see, there is a significant difference in the bullet trajectories between the two cartridges.
Though two of the. Not only does the. Felt recoil will vary from shooter to shooter and rifle to rifle, but free recoil energy is still a useful way to compare the two cartridges.
Most people agree that both cartridges are capable of excellent accuracy, but the. All that being said, both cartridges have the potential for excellent accuracy in the right hands. For that reason, virtually every ammunition manufacturer of note like Barnes, Browning, Federal Premium, Hornady, Nosler, PPU, Remington, Swift, Weatherby, and Winchester just to name a few produce a wide variety of good quality ammo in various bullet weights for both cartridges.
Prices and availability for each cartridge vary from region to region, but ammunition for both cartridges is widely available. Ammunition for both cartridges is similarily priced as well. There are also lots of good quality. Additionally, because the cartridges are the same length and have the same rim diameter, rifles of the same model chambered in each cartridge are virtually identical to each other.
Even though the Model 70s has been chambered in many other cartridges including. It was custom-stocked by Al Biesen of Spokane who also fitted an engraved trap-door buttplate and grip cap.
It was used by Jack from Botswana to British Columbia on a variety of game, including his last Stone ram in When using the right bullets and with good shot placement, both cartridges are excellent for hunting medium to large sized game.
Indeed, both the. They are both extremely effective and popular deer hunting cartridges. Indeed, whitetail deer probably make up well over half of the game harvested by those two cartridges each year. The same goes for exotic game like sika, axis, and fallow deer. The flat trajectory of the. By the same token, the fact that the. On the other hand, since it shoots heavier and larger diameter bullets, the.
When using a grain bullet, the. After all, lots of hunters have killed untold numbers of those animals with a. If anything, the. For instance, the gr Nosler Partition below really did a number on a big kudu bull in South Africa. Do you primarily hunt deer, hogs, or bears in an area where long distance shots past yards are uncommon and bullet drop is less of a concern? Are you very sensitive to recoil? Consider going with the. With good shot placement and quality ammunition, the.
Do you want to hunt larger game animals like elk, moose, red stag, and eland? Both cartridges will work, but the. While each one may be better suited to specific situations than the others, they are both very solid performers overall. The difference between them vs is not as great as it is sometimes made out to be and the animal will never know the difference if your shot is placed in the right spot.
Book an excellent black bear hunt here. Book an outstanding African hunting safari here. For a more detailed discussion on the. Nosler provided the load data used to compare recoil for the cartridges here and here. Cartridge case capacities were obtained from Chuck Hawks.
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