Affordable long range caliber?

hitman#1

Might start an arguement but I'm looking for input on a good long range cal. besides the 50! Which I cant afford to play with, wish I could.
JW

rldowns3

Have you considered the .308? .300 Win Mag? .338? Your cheapest calibers are going to be the 'normal' calibers like the .308 and .300 win mag and stuff. Ya know, crap you can find in walmart.

rsnyder55

Also consider the 7mm's. There are shooters using both 300 and 7mm in 1000 yard shooting.

gissimo

Can you stand tremendous recoil? I sold my 338 / 378 on gunbroker about a year ago. MANY organizations are going to them for long range sniping. (even some of the spec ops groups in the military) I have used them on elk at extreme distances and they all die before they hit the ground. They arent that expensive to have built off a magnum mauser action. Be warned however, with 300 grain bullets the recoil on a 11 pound gun was calculated out to 86 foot pounds, nearly 4 times as much as a 30 -06.

hobbist

Did you consider Mosin-Nagant in 7.62x 54R it is really inexpensive.

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aglore

Gissimo, you cannot drive a 300 grain bullet fast enough from the 338/378 to generate 86 foot pounds of recoil from an 11 pound rifle. 60 foot pounds would be about maximum and that is if you could launch that bullet at 3000 FPS which cannot be done. I know, I had a 338/378 built on the BBK-02 action way before it bacame a factory round. Was only getting 3150 with a 250 Partition with 115 grains of H1000.

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greeker375

Hitman...

WHAT do you consider "long range"? I think then, the reponses could be more exact.

hitman#1

700 to 1000 yards

jonk

Well, the old 30-06 is regularly used in competition to 1000y. No need to go to the .50. Any 06 class round with proper bullet, load, and gun will hit the target even at that range.

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hitman#1

Whats some pro & cons for the 06 and the 308

Ricky3

There's really no need of such a gun or caliber, for civilians. The .50 is a big waste on men. Its main value is in holing water towers, propane tankes, big transformers (lets out the oil, then the transformer shorts-out and melts itself)big stacks of fuel-drums and liquid-fueld rockets, from 1/2 mile or more. Men are too mobile a target, too likely to be using cover, or else no real threat to you, and mirage, wind, etc make missing too likely to occur at such ranges. If you have to hit, better get closer. If you dont absolutely have to hit, why fire at all, or why cant you get closer, or send a dog with exposives under his collar? With these new shocker-collars, he can be taught to go nowhere but under the gas tank of black limos, you know.

cwinn

The 308 is considered to be more inherintly accurate than the 'ought six, and the 308 will fit in a short action gun. That along with the fadt that 308 is used extensively by militarys throughout the world making surplus ammo plentiful make the 308 a superior choice in my opinion,

However, the 30-06 can handle heavier bullets than the 308 and gets 100-200 fps more velocity with comparable weights, so for hunting larger game the 30-06 may be the better choice. Hope this helps

Ricky3

Surplus ammo is too inaccurate to hit much of anything beyond 223 type distances (ie, 500m or more.) So that is no factor. However, the availability of Black Hills hpbt MATCH 308 ammo, at fairly good prices is perhaps a factor. More likely tho, you will have to reload for whichever "toy" caliber you choose for this fantasy.