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You have a bunch of well intentioned posters offering you advise.
If your wanting to hunt animals up to elk in size forget the 22 long rifle 17 hmr and 223 posts.
If your planning on hunting pigs and deer mainly and you have changed your original choices of 270 or 30-06 start with 243 as your smallest round.
More pigs and cows have been slaughtered with the use of a 22 long rifle than all other rounds combined but that isn't hunting.
Next you have to decide what kind of person you are. Do you wipe off all of your hand tools after each use and place them on the wall in an outlined drawing?
Or
Do you hammer a nail and drop the hammer back into a tool box or leave it on the counter?
My truck hasn't been washed in over 10 years except for when it rains and the entire bed is currently covered in pig and deer blood.
Some hunters will put down a tarp and have there truck detailed after getting it dusty and not killing anything.
Neither way is an issue you just have to know which way you lean in order to be happy.
I have many many Remington's both new and old. The picture is of a two year old 700 with a rusty bolt knob. I will never call Remington about it and I will never put oil on the knob either. I know that knob will never be detrimental to my way of hunting or shooting.
I have hunting buddies that would have a third stage coronary event if that was there gun and they would call Remington relentlessly and write about it on 20 forums.
I don't call them names or think they need help it's just how people are different.
Next we keep reading about the flat trajectory of the 270 and how it is flatter than the 30-06.
The 270 shoots a 130 grain bullet at 3140 FPS.
The 30-06 shoots a 125 grain bullet at 3300 FPS.
Most hunters using a 270 will use 130-140 grain bullets while most hunters using the 30-06 will be using 150-180 grain bullets.
I don't mind people saying a 130 is flatter shooting to 300 yards than a 180 is at 300 yards but it's not a good comparison in my opinion. Match up the bullet weights and make a more honest comparison.
I sent a brand new hunting rifle in to one of the world's finest gunsmiths for a new barrel. A few days goes by and my email and my cellphone are both lit up with messages. I gave the gunsmith Jim Borden a call and he was all excited that my brand new Borden action was all scratched up and his wife Joan had sent me a pile of pictures. I told him the gun had fallen of the rollcage of my Jeep and slid down a rocky road before ending up in a ditch. I told him to toss the old barrel and put on a new one and all was well.
I was shooting at the biggest 1000 yard Benchrest match many months later and a fellow competitor who was shooting a Borden gun told me he had to call Jim for a part and when Jim found out he was from California he asked him if he knew me.
John"Pretty Gun" Crawford was the nickname I gave that shooter and he said yes I shoot with him all the time. Jim told him the story about the scratched up action and John told him I hit a BAT action with a mallet and the handle flew over the cyclone fence at the 100 yard range at Sacramento.
I don't purposely abuse my gear but I do use it for its intended role.
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