Hi All,
My......My it's getting heated in here
As for me I don't have a 30.06, might do one day then again I might not. I am certainly not going out looking for one but I have seen a few BSA's chambered in that I am looking for another BSA rifle so............
One thing I don't see mentioned is the use of Hollow point HUNTING bullets. I know of a fellow up in Alaska who swears by them, uses a 115 grn HP in the 7x57 and tells how deadly it is on the Cariboo. I tried some Sierra 140 grn HP's on paper through my BSA CF2 stutzen which has a 20" barrel. Why they chambered such a short barreled rifle in 270 Win God only knows, I tend to used medium burnig rate powders and have good success with H380 and H4895 in this short barreled rifle. Anything slow like Rel 19 and Win 760 gives a BIG fireball out of the muzzle which is wasted energy
Oh this is the rifle I ws shooting the 130 grn Nosler Ballistic Tips at 600 yards with. You might be surprised to know that the 100 grn Rem PSP bullet does not group at 600 yards
I tried it and found that out for the fun of it
Now I have until next September to decide on which rifle to use in the US for my next Whitetail hunting trip choices are at the moment from:-
270 Win BSA CF2 Stutzen (20" barrel)
270 Win BSA Majestic Featherweight (22" barrel)
7x57mm BSA CF2 (half stocked with 23 1/2" barrel) (used in 2003 Whitetail season)
.303 British BSA Model E (24" barrel)
.308 CZ-Brno Mod 601 (24" barrel)
7.92mm (8x57) Parker-Hale 1200 Super (24" barrel)
6.5x55 Mauser M96 (Slide Bolt with 22" barrel)
6.5x55 Sporterised Gustave Mauser (22" barrel)
9.3x75mm Husqvarna Mod 46 (24 1/2" barrel)
6.5x54MS 1903 Schoenauer (23 1/2" barrel)
30-30 Win Medwell & Perritt ( Bespoke bolt action rifle with a 25" barrel, shoots 130 Grn spitzers into less than 5/8"at 2800 fps)
Which ever one I choose will be shooting at 1" or less at 100 yards with the hunting ammunition, I would prefer less than 2" at 200 yards but my three Whitetails I shot in 2003 the furthest shot was at about 65 yards and I was expecting up to 300 yard shots
A few I have still to work with to get the accuracy I am aiming at others exceed it already, I hunt with them all here and I enjoy collecting them as much as I do shooting them.
As you can see I have no favorite cartridge, the 6.5x55 Swedish has done me proud, as has the .308 win, 30-30 Win and 7x57mm. As yet I have to take game animals with the others, the .303 has taken Fox but not Deer as of yet and with the 270 Win I have had Deer in the sights but only to be the wrong Deer or sex and either not the beast to be culled or out of season due to being wrong sex. Roe are in season all year but only one sex at a time, it's Does just now
Me once I get the accuracy I want then it's how I feel at the time and where I am going which makes the choice, for Air travel I want a QD scope set up so I can carry the scope in my hand luggage. Not all are set up this way just now but I am working on that
