Winchester, stung by the failure of its 264 Winchester Magnum, felt obliged to do something. Since only eight people in the United States who did not work for a gun company had chronographs, and since the things were such a pain in the ass to use that only four of those eight actually consulted them, the new cartridge became a raging success. In 1962 Remington introduced its weak-kneed and flaccid 7mm Remington Magnum. But there’s another way of looking at it: What the 300 Win Mag isn’t-overly powerful, too hard-kicking, terribly expensive-goes a long way toward explaining what it is: one of the most popular and useful magnums cartridges around. Compared to the 30/06, it isn’t much more capable on game. 30s by Weatherby, Remington, and others, for example, it isn’t much of a magnum. In the past, I have chided the 300 Win Mag for what it isn’t.
Most of the time.We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. He's since learned to shoot cartridges as large as the 505 Gibbs without flinching.
Ron Spomer started flinching with a little Winchester M94 lever-action 30-30 more than 40 years ago. But your odds for avoiding the flinch will be excellent. It takes commitment and extreme self control to hunt with small-caliber, frangible bullets. Shoot with surgical precision or not at all. Don't shoot animals at bad angles or running away. And then practice and train until you can guarantee you'll hit a 6-inch circle every time from field positions. As this treatise explains, that leads to massive hemorrhaging and quick demise.If you fear recoil so much that you must use a light-kicking 224-caliber of some kind, make sure it is legal where you hunt. But if you slip them behind the shoulder, they can "explode" in the heart or lung, creating an area of total tissue destruction about the diameter of an average cantaloupe. They can break up on major muscle and bone and fail to reach the vitals. Here I am talking about frangible bullets, often called "varmint bullets" and often illegal for big game hunting. Light, small caliber bullets can do massive tissue damage IF they are the right type of bullet and IF they land in the right spot. The right 25-caliber bullet can become a 50-caliber on impact. An expandable 30-caliber can mushroom to twice its diameter, becoming a 60-caliber. A solid 50-caliber remains a half-inch wide. The larger surface area of a 50-caliber bullet has the potential to create more tissue damage than any narrower bullet, but bullet performance alters that. Rapid hemorrhaging is the reason we aim for the heart/lungs. This increases tissue breakdown leading to faster bleeding. It also maintains more momentum for deeper penetration. A larger, heavier projectile at high velocity has the potential to create a wider wound channel than does a smaller slug. While knockdown energy is largely a myth, there is some benefit in shooting bullets larger in diameter then. A 62-grain Fusion bullet shot through most, broke leg bones on the impala, and didn't tear up a lot of meat and hide the way a more frangible bullet might have.So should you hunt deer and elk with a 22-250? Maybe, but probably not. in Namibia and enjoyed one-shot kills on six antelope from 10-pound dik dik to 130-pound impala. I recently used a Savage Lightweight Storm in 223 Rem. South Dakota and Montana permit centerfire 22s for big game hunting, resulting in many elk migrating into freezers under the precision guidance of 22-250 Remingtons. Hunters in Texas routinely take whitetails with 223 Remingtons. While some states set minimum muzzle energy standards or caliber restrictions, others do not. So the first trick to preventing or curing any flinch is to shoot a lighter kicking cartridge.How light? Personally, I don't think you can go too light. You don't a 300-grain or even 180-grain slug traveling 3,000 fps to do it. Short-circuit that cardio-pulmonary connection, and the animal dies. As this earlier article explains, all animals depend on a heart and lungs to supply oxygen to the brain. The first thing you should know is that you don't need a hard-kicking super magnum to cleanly terminate deer and elk.
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