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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Holy smokes! Yes, overkill is an understatement. An absolutely outstanding long range match cartridge, and formerly put to great use by the U.S. military's snipers, but I believe since replaced by the .300 Winchester Magnum with some new whiz-bang ultra-high ballistic coefficient bullet. Tremendous muzzle blast and recoil. Really heavy rifles. Not very practical as a hunting rifle to walk around with. And, well, unless he handloads, big $$$ every time he pulls the trigger. Very cool stuff, but pretty much out of its element slogging through those afore mentioned river bottom alder thickets.
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When you consider his longest shot was around 50 yards... yeah.. but that's my nephew!
He reloads so yeah the cost comes down a bit.
Yeah, it's a bit big. He stand hunts up in Canada. I think he had to get a different magazine for it though due to the limitation on rounds. I think his factory mag held 5 and Canada only allows 3 or something like that.