What is better a 30-06 or .308/7.62 NATO for deer?
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If you load a 308 and a 30-06 with the same bullet and the same muzzle velocity, the ballistics will be identical. The 30-06 can handle heavier (and therefore longer) bullets due to the tighter twist rate on the barrel. This means that for longer distances, the 30-06 - with heavier bullets - will drop less than a .308, which pretty much tops out at a 175-grain bullet. \n\nLess drop means less chance you wound your deer rather than kill it, so if you're hunting at close range it's all pretty much the same but if you're in an open plain taking a long shot I'd go 30-06.
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Desert Eagle.  less recoil makes for a faster second shot
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The M16 is .223 Remington (5.56x45mm). The M1 was 43.5 inches long.
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Depends on the job, but I like\n1. Barrett 50\n2. Dragunev 7.62x54 \n3. Remington 700\n\nSniper/counter sniper USN 1988 - 1992
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Manevitch is me. Probably not proper answers "etiquette" to ask a question of one member, though.\n\nThe M77 is a good gun. I'm fond of the Remington 700 action, but the M77 action is also solid. You can buy aftermarket triggers, bolts, and other accessories for the M77 easily at Brownells or even Midway.\n\nThe All-Weather is a good choice under two situations: you're shooting under a variety of temperatures, or you're shooting when it's raining, snowing, or sleeting. Hailing too, I suppose :-) The advantage to that model is that it has all stainless parts (stainless does rust; take care of the gun) and the stock is glass-filled nylon which means it's less apt to torque the action out of true as the temperature changes.\n\nI have no particular opinions about any calibers, though. If the .243 works for you, then go for it.
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Black bear are best taken (in my humble oppinion) with a .30-06 180 gr. Some good brands of ammo out there include Hornady's 180 gr with super shock Tip and Norma 200 gr oryx bonded for when you need just a bit more bang for your buck.
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As with any "what is the best" it depends what you want to do.\n\nIf you just want to punch holes in things and you aren't bothered by what the holes do then a 223/5.56x45 will be cheaper to feed than any of the alternatives. The most common of those is the AR-15 and it's many clones... of which I have four.\n\nThe G36 is certainly a more modern and a better design than the AR-15. Sorry to all the old soldiers out there, but it's not a 'great' design, it just works OK.\n\nYou might like to take a look at a Sig556 too. \n\nIf you want to make more noise and have a round that will stop deer reliably then have a look at a 7.62,  the FN-FAL is the world favorite quality 7.62x51 battle rifle, the Sig550 and the Galil (I forget the variant today) are also very good. \n\nI'd go with H&K or Sig.
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I want something that has KICK!!  I love it when a revolver feels like it is going to jump out of your hand!  Try a 12 Gauge shotgun with 00 Buckshot or 3'' Magnum Turkey loads if you want more KICK!  Or how about a .300 Weatherbee Magnum without a muzzle-break?  If you want sustained kick, join the military and shoot an fully-auto!  (Or get a friend that is the armorer and see if he will let you shoot one! -It's been done before, but don't tell anyone I told you!)\n\nThough I sometime like the methodical, precision behind a smaller caliber rifle, like a .22 or a semi-auto SKS with 30 rounds clip.  Just lay down and pick of targets (inanimate ones) real simple like and hardly move.\n\nCool Question! Later.
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nBetter is a "relative" term! Not only are you trying to compare two different action styles, you are comparing two different "classes" of cartridges. To answer which is better, you must identify the purpose/mission of the pistol. \n\nIf you are talking in terms of a self defense pistol, the M1911A1 has it all over your .44 Magnum. First, the M1911A1 was designed from day one as a defense pistol. The M1911A1 allows for rapidity of reloading ... the .45ACP holds 7 rounds to your .44s presumed 6. Since the .45 ejects automatically, and the .44 doesn't ... plus to the .45. Reload time for the M1911A1 is half the time of the .44. The M1911A1's .45ACP has less perceived recoil than the .44, recovery time for follow-up shots falls to the M1911A1 ... another plus. Engage more than 1 aggressor with the .44, you may not be able to recover after the first shot for a well-placed follow-up shot.\n\nNow, if you are talking hunting, the .44 has it all over the M1911A1. The .45 just does not have the power (energy) of the .44 to stop medium sized game. The .45 Hardball is not a good choice for game, and most game-appropriate bullets will not feed reliably in the M1911A1. In addition, the .44's revolver has a greater potential for accuracy at typical handgun hunting distance ... energy and field accuracy lead to two points for the .44.\n\nHowever, if you are talking target shooting, you have a draw, because you will not shoot magnum rounds for target! In NRA bulls-eye competition, the .44 could be fired (using .44 Specials) in the Centerfire matches only. The match-tuned .45 can be fired in both the Centerfire and .45 events, and if your .45 is match-tuned for hardball, you are also set for "Leg" matches ... hence the M1911A1 is up for 2 or 3 events to the .44's single event ... making the .45 better.\n\nOn pure statistics, the .44 is a hunting round, the .45ACP (depending on bullet choice) is a defensive round, a target round, or in some instances, a small-game round.\n\nAs Clint Eastwood's charachter "Dirty Harry" was fond of saying ... "A man has got to know his limitations" ... so is true for handguns and cartridges ... you must know their limitations!\n\nGood luck!
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hi, my browning ambush 60 is very accurate to 60 yards and the sight pin sits right on the left edge of the arrow if you look down the arrow at full draw.
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nFirst, be aware of the hunting laws where you plan to hunt. For example, Pennsylvania prohibits the use of semi-automatic rifles, hence the Garand would be useless. \n\nYou do not identify the conditions you will be hunting under. That will have a big bearing on your choice. Personally, I would recommend the .308 over the .30-06. In an average shooter's hands, both can be expected to drop game to 500 yards. Performance wise, they are near equals. \n\nWith respect to rifles, you get what you pay for. Of readily available bolt rifles, I would lean towards the Remington 700 line. Personally, I would suggest the 700 Varmint in .308, but for hunting alone a 700 BDL or a Model Seven in .308 would be quite sufficient. \n\nEDITED TO ADD:\n\nA point to consider ... Remington's 700 Varmint is the chasis for the U.S.M.C.'s M40 series sniper rifles. I built my 700 Varmint as a 1000 yard target rifle. I can place 20 shots at 1000 yards in under 14". With appropriate ammo, the round has sufficient terminal velocity to drop deer or similar sized game (Marine's have dropped untold number of men at this range). I know hunting deer at 1000 yards is irresponsible ... I just included this statement to show that it could be done! I do hunt with this rifle.\n\nAs an aside, if you are an American citizen, and meet the qualifications, you can purchase an M1 Garand from the Civilian Marksmanship Program (link below) starting at $300 and averaging $450, depending upon receiver manufacturer and grade!\n\nGood luck and good hunting.
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None that I know of make direct comparisons/contrasts.\n\nI can help you out a lot more than TheWiseOne, as his answer contains many inaccuracies.\n\nContrary to what the WiseOne stated, the M1 Garand was adopted as the standard US Army infantry rifle in 1936 and was standard issue when we entered the war.  The USMC still had a predominance of '03 Springfields, as they didn't receive new equipment until after the Army.  I find it odd that the WiseOne denigrates the Springfield for being "obviously dated and had been used in World War I.".  That's funny, because the standard infantry rifle the Germans used during WWII, the K98k, was simply a newer, shorter version of the Gewehr 98, the Model 1898 Mauser rifle, developed before and used during WWI (the Springfield used the same action as the Mauser by the way).  Both were fine bolt-action weapons, but couldn't compare with the M1 because of their slow rate of fire (the US was the only army in WWII to have a semi-automatic rifle as it's standard infantry weapon).\n\nThe primary sub-machine gun of the US Army during WWII was the M1928A1, M1, and M1A1 versions of the Thompson sub-machine gun.  A fairly heavy weapon, accurate at short ranges, and it had a lot of stopping power due to the fact it was chambered for the .45ACP round.  From 1944 onwards it was slowly phased out and replaced by the M3 Grease Gun.  It was cheaper and far simpler to mass produce than the Thompson.  Contrary to what the WiseOne states, both used 30 round box magazines (although 20 round was available for the Thompson).  The German MP-40 (the famed Schmeisser, although Schmeisser had no part in it's design) was chambered for 9MM Parabellum.  It was lighter and had a slightly lower cyclic rate than the Thompson (but a bit higher than the M3).\n\nComparing the MP-44 and the BAR is like comparing apples and oranges.  The MP-44 is the ancestor of the modern assault rifle, and was used as such.  The BAR is analagous to the M249 SAW that the US Army currently uses.  The MP-44 was a good weapon, with decent accuracy and range, and a cyclic rate high enough to provide fairly heavy firepower.  Very useful in urban fighting.\n\nThe BAR was a great weapon, heavy, but provided very good, accurate firepower for platoons.\n\nI don't know what "tiny Walther pistols" WiseOne is speaking about.  The standard German sidearms of WWII were the Parabellum-Pistole (popularly known as the Luger) and the Walther P-38.  Both were chambered for the 9MM Parabellum round, and both were fairly accurate.  The P-38 was easier and cheaper to make, and more tolerant of various environmental conditions.  The M1911A1 Colt .45 was a fairly good pistol, not particularly accurate, but the .45 ACP round provided good stopping power, and it was fairly reliable.\n\nThe German MG-42 was an excellent weapon, the best of its' class during the war.  It was the basis for the postwar design of the US M-60 machine gun.  I don't know what the WiseOne is speaking of when he mentions "and other lamer machine guns" when speaking of the US.  The primary US light machine gun was the .30 Browning.  It's sustained fire rate wasn't as good as the MG-42, but nevertheless the air-cooled version was a more than competent, if not very good weapon.  The standard heavy machine gun of the US was the Browning M2 .50.  This was an excellent weapon, best in it's class, and is still in use today by many countries. The M2 was just as accurate as the MG-42, and had greater power and ranger. Then again, pretty much any weapon designed by John Browning turned out to be excellent.\n\nThis following statement is absolutely wrong:\n\n"American planes were better than German planes by the time we entered the war, as the RAF killed off many of their better planes."\n\nThe best American fighters of the war at the time of our entry were the P-40 and F4F.  Neither one was anywhere near as good as the
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I had to change my answer because I was wrong and "bgooden28" was right.  \n\nYou can go to www.gunsandammo.com and they have some helpful ballistics charts you can use to compare:\n\nhttp://www.gunsandammomag.com/ballistics/\n\nMoose being large animals, require larger caliber rounds to bring them down safely and quickly (causing as little suffering to the animal as possible).  Of the calibers you listed above 300 Magnum is probably the best.  You can go even bigger.\n\nIf you're a beginning hunter I would recommend starting with animals a little smaller in size.  Consult your local NRA (http://www.nra.org/) chapter for more details.  There are likely also hunting organizations in your community that will help people get started.  Check out http://local.yahoo.com.
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Only muzzleloading firearms that are 40 caliber or greater and capable of firing only a single charge may be used to hunt deer during this season\n\nhttp://www.maine.gov/ifw/hunttrap/hunt_traplaws.htm#MUZZLELOADING%20SEASON
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Rather than try to tell you about a rifle you didn't ask about, I'll tell you about the one you did ask about. I have 2 Bushmasters, the M17S (Bullpup) and the Patrolmans carbine M4A3, I've shot many of the varminters as well. You've made a good decision to get a Bushmaster, their rifles are unsurpassed and their customer service is outstanding. The varminters I've shot will give consistant -1 moa groups at 200 yards with a good scope. I've shot high end .223(Wilson combat) and low end .223 ( saiga) The bushmaster will outperform the saiga and will keep up with and often beat the wilson combat rifles.The varminter is of course an accurised weapon giving you, the shooter, the benefit of years of research done by Bushmaster.I highly recommend the Harris bipod if you plan on doing long distance target shooting. The varminter is by no means a combat rifle, it's intended purpose is highly accurate target shooting and of course, taking care of pesky varmints from a distance.Unlike the lower end .223's intended for combat accuracy, great care is given to each varminter to ensure accuracy and dependability.
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7.62x39 is just that a common Nato round. Ebay does not sell ammunition !! If you are seeking ammunition of this caliber and is not readily available at a sporting goods store, you will have to seek it at a gun show in your area.
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T/C offers a package designed for the handgun hunter that needs only to be sighted in before use in the field. T/C's 14" Contender Hunter package is available in seven of the more popular commercially loaded hunting cartridges. It is equiped with T/C's Muzzle Tamer to reduce recoil. The package includes a variable power 2.5-7x Recoil Proof Scope, mounted to the Contender with a Weaver Style base and medium height rings. A nylon carrying sling and fleece-lined suede leather carrying case are also included. The Contender Hunter is also available in stainless steel.\nfor elk youd want something pretty hefty check out the .45/70 Gov\nI have one and its awesome shooting and accurate