Thread: 25-06 why hasn't it achieved fame and success in New Zealand?

Settle down, it's Friday... beer o'clock in 4 hours.

This part of our debates always brings a wry smile. Simply fact is, you can shoot a red deer with a .300 Win Mag, put it slightly too far back, and the deer's gone like shit off a stick. I saw that happen last winter... cue tool blaming by the nut behind the butt. When the deer was found, it had a dirty great big hole about 7-8" too far back, upper rear lung shot. Doesn't take much with a bit of wind and angles not quite in your favour.

When deer I shoot don't drop immediately, it's usually cos I didn't put the pill in the right place.

There's bugger all separating most of the sporting rifles we use, at the end of the day. Shot placement is top trump, every time.

That's all.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

cue tool blaming by the nut behind the butt.

Years ago when I was young fulla I had a couple of bad shots with the Ruger M77 .270. I knew that rifle inside out and often shot to 300yds on the range so was pretty practiced with it. I remember shooting 2 goats once that were so far away I aimed about a foot high and hit them low in the chest; a long range for those days. I'm not sure what the range was but it was sighted in t be 2.5" high at 100. It grouped 3 shots into around an inch with just under max handloads

Well I muffed a couple of sitters. Usually I always blame myself first, but this time for some reason blamed the rifle. Anyhoo.... Went to the range to test and it was smack on target. So yup, was my fault..... Lesson learnt (again!)