New Highland Calibre - What to go For
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Hm. Don't disagree about the .270 (not sure about 110gr, though) - but do you really need a 'heavy backdrop' for 7mm/.300 Magnum compared to non-magnums? Is it really not possible to shoot 7.62x51NATO from a standard .308?
Am I being picky?
Roestalker39
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I hope so I’ve just bought one
This, is a boring cartridge...
The rest is an exercise in purest futility considering our OP has been back once since he asked the original question, one month after he asked it, which was one month ago! I’ll bet he’s bought a 6.5 Creedmoor in the meantime... And he wasn’t brave enough to say so!
(Note to all you uneducated pond scum, that’s C...R...E...E...D...M...O...O...R. Note the last four letters FFS. Moor as in Dart or Ex. Jeez. You’ll be calling it a calibre next. What a rabble of wet bloody dishwipes you all are. Pansying around with your wooden stocks and 19th Century antiques that the evidence would suggest you polish and fondle far more than you actually shoot. As you were!)
palmer_mike
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I hear the 277 fury is going to be the ‘next big thing’
well maybe not but it might be
well maybe not but it might be
Jura
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I hear the 277 fury is going to be the ‘next big thing’
well maybe not but it might be
.277 Fury - Wikipedia
As Frenchy, going for a Scottish hind culling week soon , I'll (for sure ) take my 6.5 PRC loaded with a 100 gr mono sanitary certified . As an alternative ??? I'd take my .308 Win with a 110 grains mono, also sanitary certified. That's it. And, and, ... nothing else. And no discussion about this choice. 
palmer_mike
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What’s sanitary certified? Do you disinfect there bullets or something?As Frenchy, going for a Scottish hind culling week soon , I'll (for sure ) take my 6.5 PRC loaded with a 100 gr mono sanitary certified . As an alternative ??? I'd take my .308 Win with a 110 grains mono, also sanitary certified. That's it. And, and, ... nothing else. And no discussion about this choice.
non toxic certification : a certificate is a paper demonstrating that the bullet's materials are compliant with sanitary recommandations. It's the way to demonstrate the NON CONTAMINATION 
What did you go with in the end? To be honest anything common and 6.5+ will be just fine. I use 6.5x55, I love it. I took a 7STW one year and they didn't fall down any quicker despite the 140gr bullets leaving the muzzle 600fps faster! At the ranges you'll be shooting even the drop isn't worth worrying about.
Dan Gliballs
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7 pages in and.......
why not go for a .22lr. It meets the new EU carbon emissions and has reduced rare earth metal usage due to a lower bullet weight. Also it shows a great skill level at having to stalk into your beast to a much closer distance. You can experiance what it must have been like to stalk deer hundreds of years ago 
JabaliHunter
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SamHuntVic
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Right, 7 pages in and the OP still hasn't come back. It's a wind up...again.
Grant.
Grant.
As this is a Highland thread, could we allow Creedmuir?
SikaHunter
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Brilliant Reply. If i only had the vocabulary I may even have responded in a similar manner.
As for caliber .......anything that goes bang and is legal will do the job if bullet is placed correctly. Personally I have used 22/250 (old days when it was impossible to get anything else in Ireland), 243. 270 (current) 308 and all are fine. All are totally inadequate if the bullet does not find it mark.
Creadhmhor?
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