New Deer Rifle

.25-06 in my opinion is the perfect deer round. Light recoiling, flat shooting and enough power for longer shots if you need it. There are plenty of other cartridges that do an excellent job of killing deer, but anything stronger gives you the downside of more recoil with no practical advantage. Dead is dead.. and the .25-06 will do it everytime if you put the bullet where it needs to be.
 
jmr40 im going off the 2011 book and its been spot on sofar but if you have weighed them then they might be off in there book :D
 
Vote for a Stainless/Synthetic Tikka T3 Lite in 7mm08 or 260 (only if you hand load). Great fiber-reinforced stock with an alloy bedding block, the triggers Tikka's use are better then any after market performance trigger you can buy. They use the same barrels on Tikka's as what is used on Sako's and there factory free floated plus there accuracy guarantee is the best of any (besides Sako) factory production rifle made. Weighing in at between 6 to 6-1/4 pounds it is a nice light hunting rifle.
 
Ok, why get an ugly accurate savage, when you can get a pretty and, accurate Kimber, Sako, Remington, Montana Rifle Company, or Cooper
 
25-06

Will nail any mulie that ever lived. 110 gr accubond at 3180 fps (hand load) will shoot as flat as a 270 and hit plenty hard.

Where are you hunting? I live in the west and shots over 250 yards are not uncommon.
 
Absolutely love my Sako 7mm08. Its a shear pleasure to shoot and kills deer DRT. I load a 150grn boolit in it though which is a bit heavier than most people shoot. At 100-200yards the deer don't seem to know what hit them. Fun round and about a practical for whitetail as any round out there. It'll anchor a piggy too.

I'm giving serious thought to building a rifle on the caliber but haven't settled on what I want.
 
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