My 300wm is good to 1000 yards and my new 6.5 Creedmoor should be good to 1200.
Yawn. Here we go again.
May want to check you ballistics on you minimum expansion velocity there bud. The creedmoor runs out of juice well before 1000 yards. Mine runs out at 700-750ish where I hit the 1800 fps minimum expansion velocity on eld-x.
Spend more-get more. 3050fps. https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/the-6-5-creedmoor-a-serious-one-mile-gun/#:~:text=In the right set of,that's not always the case.
I put a NightForce 5-20X56 on my rifle. Next time I go to the range I'll take some video ringing steel at 1000 yards (furthest target the range offers). New rifle was built for ADC work.
.270 win will take whitetails to moose no problemI know I’m going to get a lot of different answers but here we go. I am looking for a caliber/round that I can use from antelope up to elk. Would like to have the knock down power from up to 600 yards and be able to buy ammo almost anywhere. What would you guys suggest? Thinking about 6.5 PRC.
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Yawn. Here we go again.
May want to check you ballistics on you minimum expansion velocity there bud. The creedmoor runs out of juice well before 1000 yards. Mine runs out at 700-750ish where I hit the 1800 fps minimum expansion velocity on eld-x.
I love how everyone's Creedmoor outperforms the 300 WM.
The OP asked for a readily available cartridge to take game out to a maximum of 600 yards. The 30-06 is very capable of being that cartridge and imo is the only one that would be readily available anywhere ammo is sold. Your standard 165 grain factory Hornady load is still over 1850 FPS at 600 yards and is producing 1300lbs of energy. That is plenty of velocity and energy to kill anything in the lower 48. The 300 win mag is simply not available everywhere ammo is sold otherwise I would be in complete agreement in that cartridge recommendation.I think since this was posted to the LONG RANGE hunting section, not the firearm section, it would be a mistake to recommend the 308 or 30-06 because neither carry enough velocity or energy much beyond 500 to kill.
The recommendation would have to be 300 win mag, or perhaps a high BC 7mm.
I'll be the first (and likely only) vote for .338 win mag.