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5 must own guns

GeoFish said:
What is the old saying.
Beware of the man that only ownes one gun!
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I agree, but if it had to be one the 22mag is the way to go. You can kill anything with a 22mag. Ammo is cheap, light, and plentiful. I know it may be illegal in most states for hunting large game, but it will damn sure get the job done.


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raisins said:
it gets some hate, but the 6.5CM really is a sweet caliber for deer and similar-sized game, especially if you aren't a fan of recoil and don't like muzzle brakes
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I hate the 6.5 CM because the 6.5 Prc is what the CM should have been originally. If George Gardner had developed the PRC in 2006 instead of 2013 the CM wouldn’t even be a thought. The PRC is a straight up bad arse rifle. I’ve set up 3 rifles for western hunting. A Model 70 30-06, a Savage 110 7mag, and a Patriot 6.5PRC.

The 6.5 PRC is by far the most accurate. If I’m shooting off of a Sled I can clover leaf at 200. The 7mag and 06 shoot tight, but not that tight. I’ve got my 6.5 PRC shooting close to 3300 with hand loads, and you can’t touch that with a CM. The PRC’s recoil is only about 3lbs more. With the exception of ammo pricing and availability, why would anyone want a CM over a PRC?

The same goes for the 6mm ARC over the 243. Why would you just not buy a 243 with a tighter twist and shoot the same bullets as the ARC, at a faster speed?

For those of you that worry about burning up barrels, they are disposable items. Burn em up and buy a new one. You can get a new barrel for what 2 doz arrows cost.

Ok I’m off my soap box now.


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I vote for the 6.5 CM…I have been down the big caliber road and its just a waste of time and money for me.
6.5 CM is at every store that sells ammo, and I think my son who is seven can handle the 6.5 cm over bigger calibers . Just because i can easily handle the magnum caliber’s doesn’t mean that would be a good offering for my kids or wife if something were to happen to me.
So with that I’ll stick with my Barrett Fieldcraft special edition 6.5cm.
 
To each his own. That’s why there are so many calibers.


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shmelton said:
I hate the 6.5 CM because the 6.5 Prc is what the CM should have been originally. If George Gardner had developed the PRC in 2006 instead of 2013 the CM wouldn’t even be a thought.
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I still don't get the hate. If the 6.5 PRC is your huckleberry, just shoot it and enjoy it. I'm a wildcatter, none of those are available off the shelf and that has zero effect on my feeling towards other cartridges. If the shooting public is clamoring for max velocity rounds they'll buy them
 
For Eastern whitetail, any action chambered in any caliber from .243 to 30-06 is perfect. I've personally shot deer with semi-autos, lever actions, and bolt actions in .260 Rem, 6.5 x 55 Swed, .270 Win, 7mm-08 Rem, .308 Win, 30-30 Win, 30-06 Sprg, and .32 Win Special; all of those deer ended up equally dead.

My muzzleloader deer load is a .54 round ball ahead of 90 grains FFFg, that load has proven as effective as any of the above cartridges.
 
shmelton said:
I hate the 6.5 CM because the 6.5 Prc is what the CM should have been originally. If George Gardner had developed the PRC in 2006 instead of 2013 the CM wouldn’t even be a thought. The PRC is a straight up bad arse rifle. I’ve set up 3 rifles for western hunting. A Model 70 30-06, a Savage 110 7mag, and a Patriot 6.5PRC.

The 6.5 PRC is by far the most accurate. If I’m shooting off of a Sled I can clover leaf at 200. The 7mag and 06 shoot tight, but not that tight. I’ve got my 6.5 PRC shooting close to 3300 with hand loads, and you can’t touch that with a CM. The PRC’s recoil is only about 3lbs more. With the exception of ammo pricing and availability, why would anyone want a CM over a PRC?

The same goes for the 6mm ARC over the 243. Why would you just not buy a 243 with a tighter twist and shoot the same bullets as the ARC, at a faster speed?

For those of you that worry about burning up barrels, they are disposable items. Burn em up and buy a new one. You can get a new barrel for what 2 doz arrows cost.

Ok I’m off my soap box now.


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same reason i can easily pull 70 lbs but have always hunted with 60 lbs....just not needed for what i do

also, this seems like someone not liking the 257 roberts simply because it came first and wasn't the 25-06
 
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TK161BOONER said:
I vote for the 6.5 CM…I have been down the big caliber road and its just a waste of time and money for me.
6.5 CM is at every store that sells ammo, and I think my son who is seven can handle the 6.5 cm over bigger calibers . Just because i can easily handle the magnum caliber’s doesn’t mean that would be a good offering for my kids or wife if something were to happen to me.
So with that I’ll stick with my Barrett Fieldcraft special edition 6.5cm.
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a lot of people are like me and just shoot slightly smaller calibers a lot better, if i ever go elk hunting i'll get another 30-06 to go but that's about as big as i plan to hunt with
 
NMSbowhunter said:
Yeah, if there is a current glut of ammo for it that certainly makes a case for it. Most folks who choose the 6.5 Swede and the 257 Roberts or 7x57 Mauser, 260 etc. reload and have stocked up on those cartridges and components for reloading. Will it be available in that quantity 5 or 10 years down the line? Don't know, but if I did buy one, I would commit to purchasing enough cartridges to last a lifetime or at the least reloading dies, powder, components to last the same amount of time.
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In own a couple Swedes and you are correct. What little factory ammunition you find is so anemic that it’s not worth the price. I have enough components to last many many years to reload for them and with the one in a modern action it can be made to eat the 6.5creed alive, but at the end of the day I could walk into any sporting store and grab a box of great match hunting ammo for the creed and satisfy 100% of my deer hunting needs.

I have a Swede now at a smith getting reamed into a 6.5 BJAI with custom dies being made that will put it in 6.5-284 range of velocities. I plan on running it to the max. Should push 150+ bullets with very high bc around 3k.
 
I believe I have everything covered for hunting. 30-06, 30-30, .223/5.56, 1187 rifled slug barrel, .50 muzzleloader, all the necessary shotguns - to include a muzzleloading 12GA.

I'd like to add a 300 Blackout w/ a can and a 7mm-08 to the mix though.
 
So this article is actually about 5 must own cartridges, not guns. That’s just piss poor writing. Why should we listen to somebody that doesn’t know the difference.
 
Plebe said:
So this article is actually about 5 must own cartridges, not guns. That’s just piss poor writing.
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I'm more offended by the lack of originality, the same topic has been rehashed at least 10 million times over the last 100 years :D
 
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