Originally Posted by
mimms2
Get yourself a .2XX chambering and when you can post <1.5 MOA at 300 yards, all day every day, then go buy a big-boy gun.
Honestly .223rem will do for all NZ game if you can shoot (and if you can't, you shouldn't be putting bullets at animals IMO)
.243 I consider the goldilocks cartridge in NZ. Not too hot, cold, big, small...just right.
Obviously .270 is for homosexuals.
Don't pull the trigger on anything big, if you wouldn't consider the same shot on a rabbit.
You state that the cost of .338 factory is prohibitive... there's no point in burning all that powder and throwing all those .30 cal pills (whatever cartridge) if you're not learning anything, or taking meat. And tbh you're more likely to develop bad habits with a heavy kicker.
I don't mean to be a downer... but there's enough wanabe-sniper fuckwits out there who do our sport and public image no good (fuck here we go, I'm starting to sound like the old pricks)
You may be an upstanding chap. I don't know you from a bar of soap, you don't have any history here, so you get the blunt end of it.
Walk before you run. When your .22LR groups are one hole, then extend the range, then upgrade the cartridge, then when they're one-hole, extend the range, upgrade the cartridge...