Any hunters on the board?

[JackdUp]

@taco

Last three I have shot have been that far. If you are hunting fields it is easy to get a shot that far.

True. But I usually don’t hunt gas lines or open fields.

@taco

The 264 is +/- 3 inches out to 330 yards, but the recoil is pretty stout for a 26 caliber but you can’t argue with 125 grain nosler partitions at 3400 fps. I screwed around with trying to get a 100 grain barnes x bullet to 3700 fps to get flat out to 350-360 but decided that was being a little ridiculous.

Flat shooting is nice, but 100gr at 3700? YEOW!

@taco

I don’t own one but the cadillac of flat shooting deer rifles is the 25-06 ackley improved. 100 grains at 3500 fps and recoil like a 260 remington. I think I might need to get me one of those.

All .25 are all pretty good compromises between bullet weight, profile selection and speed. Excellent for light game like deer, antelope, etc. and it’s small and fast enough to double as a varmint round if you can extract the accuracy.

The only bad thing about the faster rounds in .25 or .30 is the throat erosion problems that crop up from running them so hot. Other than that, they’re awesome.