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Loads for the '06
Posted by Murphy on Apr 22 2005
Tom,
Yes I have done that and it is part of the versatility of any rifle/ caliber. I don't do that much any more or just to a lesser degree. The reason I don't is, I own many rifles in many calibers and, the biggest reason, if I shoot just one load the trajectory is always the same. If I always use the 180 gr in the 30'06 at 2750-2800 fps, I don't have to memorize different points of impact at different distances. I also use the same velocity for most calibers/loads to make this even easier. Such as, 250-270 grain in the 375,H&H 225-230 grain in the 338WM, 200-220 in the 300 Mags, and 180 grain in the 30'06 all at 2750-2800 fps. Sight them all in 2" high at 100 yds which is a zero at about 225 yds, and about 8" low at 300yds. This is from memory I didn't run it on my program, and for as close as I can hold a rifle at 300 yds in the field, it always works. I do use different loads in these rifles, such as 300 grains in the 375H&H, but for a general duty do everything load, these work very well. I use the caliber/rifle that is needed for the task of taking the largest (toughest) animal I might encounter on the hunt. By the way, you can't exclude brown bear if you hunt goats where the brownies live. You might be looking at this the wrong way, you aren't supposed to be agonizing, this is supposed to be fun. Even if you never get an opportunity to hunt sheep, it's always fun to develop the perfect sheep load for the 30'06. One can also use only 180 grain bullet weights and just change bullets with each species. Swift A-frames for Moose or Elk, Partitions for Muleys, Ballistic tips for Pronghorn or something along those lines. That's more along the lines of what I do. It is always better to err on the side of bullet weight, bigger critters need bigger bullets. I recall only one deer that fell to a 220 Partition, I never saw the bullet again, it dented a piece of Minnesota hillside and may have ended up under Ontario for all I know. That's a Moose bullet. Good shootin'.
Murphy
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