300WinMag Recoil TC Dimension

Does the thompson center dimension kick bad in 300 win mag?

  • Yes

    Votes: 2 40.0%

  • No

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • It's a 300WinMag, of course it kicks like a mule!

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • Total voters
    5
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creekrat72

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I have been wanting to get a thompson center dimension, but i cant deside between a 300 win mag or a .308. Does anybody know how bad the thompson center dimension kicks in 309 win mag?
 
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I would greatly appreciate any help anybody could give. I cant seem to deside between the. 308 and 300 win mag. I just might have some younger hunters using my rifle i didnt know if the 300 win mag would be to much for them. Thank you.
 
I would greatly appreciate any help anybody could give. I cant seem to deside between the. 308 and 300 win mag. I just might have some younger hunters using my rifle i didnt know if the 300 win mag would be to much for them. Thank you.
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What are you hunting? If your not hunting big game, I'd go with the 308, the recoil is more manageable and the price per round is a lot less
 
If you are hunting deer sized game, the .308 is a much better option due to the lighter recoil. That 300 can be pretty stout.
 
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The manufacturer specs lists the rifles at 7.0 lbs. This would probably not be an enjoyable gun to shoot in .300 win mag, especially for children or inexperienced shooters. I have a "lightweight" .300 wm that weighs around 8lbs with scope and that thing is brutal enough. I have had grown men hand it back after one shot. It's about as good as most experienced shooters can do to put 20 rounds through it in one range trip. In my opinion, lightweight .300s are pretty much for hunting larger game when you have to carry the rifle around the woods all day. But if I understand how the dimensions works, you can swap calibers around on one rifle, so I would recommend starting off the with .308 and adding the .300 setup later if you need it.
 
Roughly 26 lbs recoil energy for the mag vs 18 for the .308...

That's a light stick. Even with a quality recoil pad, it will definitely thump.
If the youth shooters are not highly experienced, it's likely to turn them off big time.

Unless you need the energy because of extended range, or size of the game, the .308 is a great all-around caliber...
 
Thank you all fir all of your help. I am getting a the rifle for white tails and black bear. I am going to have the chace to shoot up to 300+ yards. Would the 308 have enough anergy to put down a bear at 300 yards? And the dimension is supposed to have a system to reduce felt recoil. It is still really light though, just wondering if the system works good enough for the recoil to be so little as to make the gun comfortable to shoot.
 
Yes, the 308 will be effective on bear at 300 yards.


If the youth shooters are not highly experienced, it's likely to turn them off big time.
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Or - depending on how young - send them flying in the opposite direction...
 
A 300 win mag is a good round, but if you have to ask, it is probably not for you. The 308 will do anything the 300 will do, you just have to be a little closer. If you are good enough a rifleman a 308 is a 400 yard deer rifle. Add 150-200 yards to that for a 300 mag. Most shooters aren't good enough to use the full capability of the 308. Even fewer the 300's.
 
I'd say it depends on where you're hunting. If your after deer in the woods, I'd go with the .308. For hunting on the prairie get all the range you can.

I've never felt recoil while shooting a deer or a bear.
 
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.308 for deer and bears, in a bolt, semi or lever rifle. Practice practice.. and those kids will be able to grow into the round. For kids, it is much easier to train them on the .30-30- which would be a fine round for the above mentioned game. Over distance, the .308 has it.
 
Thank you all for all of your help. One of my friends got the dimension in the 300 and i shot it a few times. It has a pretty nasty kick but nowhere bear as bad as i exspected at that wheight. I have a 243 remington but my little cousin isnt quite accurate enough with it because it is so heavy, he says. He is 12 and he shot the 300 as well and he handled it just as well as i, if not better. Still yet i think the 308 is a better round for me. I like the nockdown power of the 300. The 308 is a good deer round?
 
Ignore knockdown power.

You must make good shots. If you don't, the cartridge is irrelevant.

The 308 is a fine deer round.

The 243 is just as effective.

Accuracy matters. Nothing else.

Most people shoot lower recoil guns better than higher recoil guns.

243, 308, 30-06, 7mm-08....

Many many more. All excellent, very capable rounds.
 
Creekrat72, I don't want to come across as a jerk but if you're letting a 12 year old kid shoot a lightweight 300 Winchester, you're setting him up for failure. Bad shooting habits are hard to break, especially for a kid, and putting him behind a rifle like that is sure to create at least some of those habits. If he can't shoot a 243 well maybe he's not ready for big game hunting??

The 308 Winchester is plenty of gun for deer, bear, and elk at reasonable distances. Pick a good bullet and be able to place that bullet in the kill zone and it'll kill just as quick as a 300 Winchester.
 
Allenj.

Thank you for your advice. Shawn can shoot very well on a bench with just about any gun you want to out in his hands. He has out shot me multiple times. I think that when he is hunting he gets really excited when a white tail crosses his path. I think this is why he has accuracy problems when hunting. Is there any wat to help him get over that or do i just let him grow out of it?

You said that shawn shooting a big caliber gun like the 300 can cause bad habbits. What habbits might these be?

Thank you for all of your help.
 
Bad habits that I caught myself doing included flinching, jerking the trigger, and the old closing of the eye before the gun went off! I don't consider myself a recoil tolerant guy but I can shoot a 7mm Rem Mag 20 plus rounds and not have any of those issues. When I take my 300 out, in 5-7 rounds I'm having problems. My 300 is an A-Bolt, a lighter rifle, and it just hurts you after a few rounds.

I had my fair share of excitment problems as a young hunter. I overcame it by going through hunting magazines and every time I turned the page and a buck was pictured, I calmly put my finger on the exact spot I wanted to shoot it. It really helped me and to date I never watched another buck just run away:D
 
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