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19-03-2024, 10:00 #11
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Thanks for the comprehensive replies Andrew & Desperatezulu. I tend to agree that calibre choice is my main driving factor. I don’t want to get 5 years down the line and end up struggling to find ammo.
In terms of the 300WM. I tend to do more bush hunting than open plains hunting and I found that the 300WM was just damaging everything (I tested at a number of different gr but to no avail, and to much meat wastage). I also found that the rifle was too expensive to shoot if I felt like going down to the range and hitting a few targets. I’ve noticed that the 7x57 ammo at the shops in Pretoria tends to be a bit cheaper than the 308.
Recoil wasn’t a major consideration (having only hunted with a 300WM, and 30-06 so far and having been successful), I would like something that I can pass over to younger family members and woman in the family to use too.
To an extent I also don’t want to go and do what I did when I got the SM, spend a large amount of money upfront and not like the rifle that much (although I do still miss it). The 7x57s I’m finding look like they are cheaper in general for what I’m looking for vs the 308s. I’ll look for a few non-Mauser type actions though and see what I can find.
I hadn’t considered the 6.5x55 swede, I’ll look around for this. Main concern here would be ammo availability.
Thanks again!
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