Thread: Building a big gun?

You still gota walk to yr trophy after yr 1000yd shot.Walk closer to yr trophy first then shoot inside 200-300yds with a lighter easy to carry rifle.

Originally Posted by Trout

You still gota walk to yr trophy after yr 1000yd shot.Walk closer to yr trophy first then shoot inside 200-300yds with a lighter easy to carry rifle.

That's the plan but doesn't happen often. The trophy of my lifetime I saw st 1800 yards . And I got to him as quickly as my body would let me due to stuffed knee and steep hill. Got to 500 yards and watched him disappear. Had I had a decent scope and rifle that trophy would be on My wall . And I can tell you I'm not going to let that happen again by being under gunned

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Get a 375 H&H. Putting big animals down on the spot is what it was made for. (And it has the benefit of maintaining resale value when you decide to scratch the next itch!)

Originally Posted by Phill243

That's the plan but doesn't happen often. The trophy of my lifetime I saw st 1800 yards . And I got to him as quickly as my body would let me due to stuffed knee and steep hill. Got to 500 yards and watched him disappear. Had I had a decent scope and rifle that trophy would be on My wall . And I can tell you I'm not going to let that happen again by being under gunned

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Good luck.

This is we’re trophies die wounded and lost and is shooting not hunting

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

You'll probably find that your big gun won't pile them up any faster than a 308 or 3006 unless you smash bones. Which most reasonable caliber will do also.
Most of the energy from big calibers doesn't get soaked up in the animal but disappears into the countryside behind the animal.
Ive shot a reasonable number of sika with a 243 and a 3006. I can't recall a sika moving from where it was standing. Plenty of them have run after being hit with a 165 grain 3006. Way more energy but the small animal doesn't give the bullet time to dump its energy.

That’s why my ‘big gun’ build was a .358 Winchester. Stags in the roar means up close, and medium bore means great energy transfer. Big holes in and out. All out of a portable package with a barrel that can get top speeds at 20”. On big animals with a 3” mid range trajectory l, still good for 275yds without any dialling.

Are we talking stags or elephants here?

Carcasses either way!

Originally Posted by Trout

Good luck.

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Originally Posted by Kelton

This is we’re trophies die wounded and lost and is shooting not hunting

500 to 600 yards is not a hard shot with right equipment and right conditions. I still get as close as I practically can .

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Originally Posted by Phill243

500 to 600 yards is not a hard shot with right equipment and right conditions. I still get as close as I practically can .

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No it’s not it’s granted theirs being practice and the conditions are on. But here we have a thread started with the desire for something to punch bigger holes based on a wounded and a lost animal, one with a magnum and one with damn near a magnum calibre in the first place . Build a bigger rifle and what?double your effective range? Unlikely see 1400 ft-lbs at 1200mtrs in a ballistics app and start pulling the trigger way further than you should ? Far More likely especially if it’s a real ripper on the move . Recipes for wounded lost animals