The ultimate caliber....

stovepipe · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:45 am Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

Well said.

Very Happy

Ominivision1 · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:48 am Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

Dang Aloysius, I would say you pretty much got the spectrum covered for hunting anything from gophers to elephants with your ensemble of firearms. Very Happy

stovepipe · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:55 am Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

Yeh, how ya respond after something like that post. Nuff said there! Razz

Still- I was thinking' the 7x57 crowd would be all over this, it's a great OLD caliber! I'd sure like to have one...it's the euro 308 Winch. do-all, and then some!

Bushmaster · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:01 am Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

.30-06 is King and .30-30 is the Squire...The .22 is the "good serf".

Ominivision1 · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:21 am Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

Bushmaster wrote:

.30-06 is King and .30-30 is the Squire...The .22 is the "good serf".

I agree with yah Bushy, when handloaded the /06 is just about a do anything cartridge, I still have about 100 of the barnes 250gr sp that should take care of most things with imposing bulk and bad temper. Smile

30/30, well enough can't be said about that round, more people have put meat on the table in the last 100 years with the 30/30 than any other cartridge.

One more thing I would like to add, it seems in the last 25 years or so that game animals have apparently gotten tougher and hence require magnum size cartridges according to a lot of gun writers. It seems that they all forgot the most important thing, IT'S SHOT PLACEMENT THAT COUNTS", you hit a game animal in the boiler room and it's pretty much down for the count.

Ok enough rambling.....

chambered221 · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:48 am Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

Ominivision1 wrote:

One more thing I would like to add, it seems in the last 25 years or so that game animals have apparently gotten tougher and hence require magnum size cartridges according to a lot of gun writers.

Agreed !!!

Considering that nearly everything that breaths has been killed with a .22 I'd have to say it's the ultimate. Shocked

stovepipe · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:00 am Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

I wanna 1903 A3...oops, wrong thread.

Still a .30 cal though!

Can't beat the -06...good night how long was that round the go-to caliber for the US????

.22 cal.... Laughing

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

I'll stick in a vote for the 7mm (.280 Rem), just because I can! That was the first "big game" cartridge I got. Well, after the .45--70...

stovepipe · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

My old man made that "slow" 280 work fer him too!!!

English Mike · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

gelandangan wrote:

.......I cleaned and recleaned the mold, boiled them, brake cleaner, acetone etc...

I wouldn't use brake cleaner near anything you're heating if I were you matey. It can break down & produce phosgene gas & that's a potential killer.

44marty · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

Ok, so I bagged my first deer with a borrowed 30/30 lever action; the next couple with a .35 Rem, and after that a couple with a S&W model 39 9mm - the only firearm I had at the time (both were shot at under 30 feet). After that, hunted for years with a Ruger .44 revolver.

I still love my .300 WBY mag, and it would be the "last gun standing" if I had to sell off everything else. The deer haven't gotten any tougher. I just love shooting that cannon.

But you guys are right - the 30-06 is probably the most versatile cartridge out there.

chambered221 · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

9mm's legal for hunting ???

44marty · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

chambered221 wrote:

9mm's legal for hunting ???

Way back then, in VT.

Elvis · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:05 am Post subject: Re: The ultimate caliber....

over here its .222rem or more for DOC land.

slimjim · Last edited by slimjim on Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:26 am; edited 1 time in total

This is why I have more than one gun. Just like I have more than one screw driver and hammer. Aloys had it right, guess the .30-cal isn't so "ultimate" after all, just the freedom to use what ever caliber you want.