What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

[Treeman_MG]

I grew up shooting 12ga slugs at deer, recoil wasn't something that was talked about at all. Imagine a 16 year old kid shooting 1oz hunks of lead for deer. When rifles became legal to hunt with where we hunt, I killed deer with a number of different calibers, .30-06, .444 Marlin, .300 win mag, .358 Winchester. Always gravitated towards "bigger is better".

After a few years of reading on here, I bought a 6.5cm, and killed a couple deer with it. Geez, this thing is pretty fun to shoot! Killed deer as well as anything else I used. Sold my .300 wm, bought a 1:8 twist Tikka .22-250. I have killed 5 deer with it and 80gr eldx's in the last 2 years, and it's now my favorite deer rifle. The 6.5 cm will be coming to Alaska with me, on a moose hunt this September.

 

[Brap01]

I am starting to see the light! I have been a big caliber guy. I have a custom 338 Edge. I sold my Savage Ultralight 28 Nosler to buy an action.
Now I am gathering parts for a new build for my primary weapon. It is going to be a
6mm/7prc. 26 inch barrel 1-8 twist. Hopefully shoot the 109 ELD-M’s. I am committed to this build! But I will be honest and say this is the hardest build I have had ti commit to. Because of my thought process of “ Killing power” they say! But I am committed.

Darrin

After you get it built and start killing stuff please report your experiences (good or bad) in the 243/6mm kill thread.

I bet you'll enjoy the new setup.

 

[jpilot77]

Well after researching all these different conversations on here about going smaller I’m convinced. Selling my Fierce CT Rival in 300 PRC. It was not too bad to shoot prone with the brake. But if I’m being honest in a field setting I couldn’t master it well enough to take advantage of the long range performance. I’m moving down to a Tenacity X in 25 creed. My province has a 6mm min for big game (would have gone 6mm CR but I kind of like the better barrel life on the 25). Figure it’ll kick a bit more than a 6mm CR but a lot less than my 300.

 

[wyosam]

I’ll probably shoot my spring bear with the smallest cartridge I’ve ever hunted with this year. Had neck surgery and won’t be able to get behind a rifle most of the winter, and doc says no big recoil for a while. I’ve got a couple options that are pretty minimal, or even my 223, but it’s not stainless and my hunt involves salt water. Haven’t been shooting my dasher (or any of my other heavy rifles) much since moving to AK, and have a ton of supplies for it so I ordered an 18” light hybrid to make a very low recoil setup.


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[DisplacedHusky]

The same argument

 

[Brap01]

The same argument
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I hope no one asks him which cartridge you'd be more likely to make a bad shot with.

Like they skip the chicken or the egg argument and go straight to "you're gonna shoot em I'm the guts, and big bullets regardless of construction kill everything you gut shoot"

 

[RockAndSage]

The same argument
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MOA rifles saying something like this is about the same as a scope company dismissing the drop-test results.

 

[goalie]

I want to shoot the bullet that I repeatedly shoot better in regards to precision and accuracy, and that is constructed appropriately for my endeavor.

Because less recoil = more shooting = better shooting.

Now, I will admit that if I had some magical physics magic and could fling huge, high BC bullets with little to no recoil, I'd do it.

But, alas, they're the Laws of Physics, not guidelines.....

 

[nm.otter]

saying something like this is about the same as a scope company dismissing the drop-test results.

Thoroughly documented, statistically valid data can be a real bitch.