Thread: .300 WinMag Break vs Suppressor

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Any reason why the 300? Nothing wrong with it but its a lot of gun and something more vanilla like an Xx08, Xx55, Xx57 will kill any game animal in NZ. The 300 Win Mag certainly will have the extra legs but do you need them?

This will stir up a debate but here I go,

I have currently a .243 which is my bush rifle but I have always seen animals at the 350m + distance on the tops over ridges which take hours to get round which for my setup and myself personally to shoot with I do not feel confident enough to take the shot.

So I have been saving $$ for a while now with the end goal of creating a set-up for tops/open hunting, i.e a long range setup.
I have always been fascinated about hitting paper at 1000 so that was a reason for a new rifle and the I chose the .300 win mag caliber passed on a couple of things

Obviously magnum caliber to shoot higher fps
I was tossing up between a 6.5mm and a .300 for a while and chose the .300
I know the 6.5mm is an extremely accurate caliber but felt the heavier round coupled with the advantages it gives for wind drift as I will be estimating at best would better suit my needs.