A 450 bushmaster would be a fine choice too . Just dont get the readily available Hornadays , plan ahead and contact Bear Creek Ballistics .There isn’t much that won’t work at those distances. What kind of action do you like? The Northeast is mostly hundred yard country and some cartridges that are popular here are the, 30-30, 300 Savage, .308 Win, 30-06, .35 Remington. Less popular cartridges but still well represented would be stuff like .243 Win, .257 Roberts, 250 Savage, .270 Win, 7mm-08, 35 Whelen.
I’m not sure that there’s a “best” in there, but .30’s are far and away the most popular around here and you can pick up ammo for them almost anywhere.
A 450 bushmaster would be a fine choice too . Just dont get the readily available Hornadays , plan ahead and contact Bear Creek Ballistics .
Lol yes the win.mags aireal acrobatics are a sight to see !!! Swaping directions with barrel rolls in mid air must be seen thru the scope to truly appreciate them !!! My 300 win mag however you wont be eating anything close by in its 180gr path . No tracking either to speak of . But it also far excedes the desired 150yd preformance too .I have most of the calibers listed and killed deer with all of them. But my favorite by far is----- a 338 win mag shooting a 250 gr sierra game king bullet. The reason being is I have had absolutely NO blood shot meat, there dead right there, and you can eat right up to the bullet hole. I've killed both deer and elk with this combo and it flat works! And if there facing east when you pull the trigger, there normally facing west when there found. They flat flip over! My last elk did also.
AgreedIve shot deer at 60 yds and up, my last elk at 128 yds, and a 4x4 mule deer way to far to mention, I was laying down shooting prone. and all flipped. Something about that makes me smile. And 4 of my neighbor kids shot their first deer with that rifle. Their not as bad as some people think.
Thats a good one too .Love my Marlin 1895 SBL in 45-70. I handload .458 250gr Monoflex. Target was shot at 100yds, 3 shot group.
While I never owned one, I always like the Old Ruger 44 Semi-Auto Carbine.
I agree. I had one of the original "Deerstalker" models when they first came out. It was a great little gun for the thick Maine woods!
Too bad Ruger had the twist wrong . Accuracy wasnt what it could have been .While I never owned one, I always like the Old Ruger 44 Semi-Auto Carbine.
Barnes x bullets do the 30-30 a Ton of good .Definitely a can of worms lol. There's lots of folks with different ideas of "best", thus the reason there are lots of calibers.
I personally, in a modern rifle, prefer a lever action 30-30 with open sights for short range timber hunting. It's a short, easy to carry in the ready position rifle with fairly mild recoil that hits a deer plenty hard.
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