Bighorn Rifles

[moffitt]

Thinking about putting in for a bighorn tag in 2011.  What calibers do you guys recommend?  I have a .30-06 and my buddy who might be applying also has a 7mm.  I would think the 30-06 is viable but what about the 7mm?  Good deer rifle but how about bighorn?  Thanks for the input.

[HighCountryHunter88]

3006 is just fine but i wouldnt worry too much until you get drawn concidering youve got as good of chance as winning the mega millions..

[CP]

I'd go with my Knight Bighorn .50

[carpsniperg2]

3006 is just fine but i wouldnt worry too much until you get drawn concidering youve got as good of chance as winning the mega millions..

Nail on the head! Its a pipe dream, for thousands of hunters every year. If you do get drawn with the .0001% chance you have. Both the 30-06 and the 7mm will both do fine. Any animal on this continent will and has fallen to the 30-06 and 7mm.

[moffitt]

Thanks guys, maybe I'll try my luck and go for mega millions and the bighorn tag.

[carpsniperg2]

Now your talking atleats with the mega millions you can buy more then one ticket a year

[moffitt]

So CP if I get struck by lightning and then happen to draw a tag, then I can borrow your Knight, Right???

[CP]

So CP if I get struck by lightning and then happen to draw a tag, then I can borrow your Knight, Right???

You bet!  I’ll even go along with you in case you need some help.

[huntnnw]

Getting drawn is the hard part, dont think I would be worried about caliber of rifle till u draw,and if your just starting goodluck

[PolarBear]

Yeah good luck.  I sound like s stinking broken record but I hve been putting in for sheep, moose and goat for 26 years and still haven't drawn.  I wouldn't get to excited about getting a tag just yet.  If you do, do it with a bow!  Any good deer rifle will knock one down.

[sakoshooter]

I'd go buy a new rifle now just to be ready in case you draw that tag. You'll need a spare rifle.

[huntnnw]

Spare? in all the years I have been hunting I have never needed a spare rifle unles its an excuse to buy a new one  I plan on doing all the OIL tags with a bow if I ever draw sheep and goat

[moffitt]

Why do you guys say bow over rifle?

[PolarBear]

Cuz we are diehard bow hunters.  When I do finally draw a sheep, moose or goat (if I'm still able to walk by then) I'll take them with a bow.

[CountryslickR]

If you can get close enough....

[engelwood]

If you are lucky enough to draw the tag, you are lucky enough of a person that you should hunt with a slingshot and round stone, cuz you would be a much luckier guy than me!!! Just kidding, I would say that either of those calibers would be great for Bighorns. I'd say anything from a .270 and up would do the trick just fine.