Thread: Calibre, Rifle & Scope Sugestions For Longer Range Hunting

Originally Posted by SDP

Looking to tap into the fountain of experience and knowledge that you other hunters and shooters have.

I'm looking to purchase a new rifle and scope setup for open country deer shooting.

I'm interested to get opinions on what works for other hunters.
I'm after a light weight rifle in a calibre that you can trust will do the job with one accurate shot at 500m+. As well as suggestions for optics that would back up this longer range shooting.

Thanks in advance for any advice and opions offered.

you have said longer range so a Sako finn lite 2 or a Fierce in 7mm rem mag - neither rifle will need any special work to shoot well - scope if you are not to techo a Leupold Vari X 5 - CDS sysytem is easy and good for 500 - 600 metres reliably - whatever scope make sure it will go down to 3 power for bush hunting and 9-10 for longer range - there are better scopes such as Khales Swarovski Zeis GPO and Leica but some of them will require some training on how to get the best out of the scope for long range

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

you have said longer range so a Sako finn lite 2 or a Fierce in 7mm rem mag - neither rifle will need any special work to shoot well - scope if you are not to techo a Leupold Vari X 5 - CDS sysytem is easy and good for 500 - 600 metres reliably - whatever scope make sure it will go down to 3 power for bush hunting and 9-10 for longer range - there are better scopes such as Khales Swarovski Zeis GPO and Leica but some of them will require some training on how to get the best out of the scope for long range

A tikka will do the same as the above brands if your intrested to learn to reload Danny's handy to you and that is the perfect hammer right their proven accuracy and power to spare, as others said I forgot the prc is available now factory tikka another good option, I tend to stay away from the CDS as I enjoy changing things up but cds could be a good idea if shooting factory match ammo