RavenTai
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- Dec 15, 2008
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So I am in the deep south where our average shot on small white tail is about 70 yd in heavy brush. 30-30 can do anything you need, Efficient sleak flat shooting low drag bullets do not buy you much here unless you can hunt on a power line right of way or other long open space.
I may be moving to the mountain west for work (eastern Oregon) and I hear elk are very tasty but i also hear ranges of several hundred yards are common in the high desert. Very much changes the skills I need, and quite possibly the equipment I carry.
I have several bolts in 30-06, and that could do the job but I kinda want to to move up to the current century. In cartrige at least.
I have been thinking .270 or 6.5CM my shoulder does not want to go magnum.
I have also always wanted an 1885, I think they are beautiful, love the ultra short action, everything you need and nothing you don't, and they used to be considered "very accurate".
But bolt guns have cone a long way in the past 20 years or so, production guns are coming with a lot of features and precision formerly only seen in custom benches rifles.
I would hate to find out several thousand $ in wood, steel, brass and glass later plus hours of range time that I should have stuck with the herd and got a bolt.
I hear the Miroku 1885's have lawyer influenced trigger group, about the only complaint I can find. People say they are "accurate" but most are chambered in 45-70, not much feedback on the bottle necked chambered 1885's, they look beautiful but how do they shoot? Looking for a MOA rifle, is that a reasonable expectation from these Japanese Winchesters?
I may be moving to the mountain west for work (eastern Oregon) and I hear elk are very tasty but i also hear ranges of several hundred yards are common in the high desert. Very much changes the skills I need, and quite possibly the equipment I carry.
I have several bolts in 30-06, and that could do the job but I kinda want to to move up to the current century. In cartrige at least.
I have been thinking .270 or 6.5CM my shoulder does not want to go magnum.
I have also always wanted an 1885, I think they are beautiful, love the ultra short action, everything you need and nothing you don't, and they used to be considered "very accurate".
But bolt guns have cone a long way in the past 20 years or so, production guns are coming with a lot of features and precision formerly only seen in custom benches rifles.
I would hate to find out several thousand $ in wood, steel, brass and glass later plus hours of range time that I should have stuck with the herd and got a bolt.
I hear the Miroku 1885's have lawyer influenced trigger group, about the only complaint I can find. People say they are "accurate" but most are chambered in 45-70, not much feedback on the bottle necked chambered 1885's, they look beautiful but how do they shoot? Looking for a MOA rifle, is that a reasonable expectation from these Japanese Winchesters?