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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: moffitt on January 20, 2011, 11:49:52 AM

Title: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: moffitt on January 20, 2011, 11:49:52 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: HighCountryHunter88 on January 20, 2011, 12:23:19 PM: 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.. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: CP on January 20, 2011, 12:30:33 PM: I'd go with my Knight Bighorn .50
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 20, 2011, 12:45:27 PM: Quote from: HighCountryHunter88 on January 20, 2011, 12:23:19 PM
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.. :chuckle:

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.
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: moffitt on January 20, 2011, 12:50:48 PM: Thanks guys, maybe I'll try my luck and go for mega millions and the bighorn tag.
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 20, 2011, 12:59:53 PM: Now your talking :IBCOOL: atleats with the mega millions you can buy more then one ticket a year :chuckle:
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: moffitt on January 20, 2011, 01:14:50 PM: So CP if I get struck by lightning and then happen to draw a tag, then I can borrow your Knight, Right?????? ;)
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: CP on January 20, 2011, 01:48:00 PM: Quote from: moffitt on January 20, 2011, 01:14:50 PM
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.
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: huntnnw on January 20, 2011, 11:08:34 PM: 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
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: PolarBear on January 21, 2011, 12:13:46 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: sakoshooter on January 21, 2011, 01:45:05 AM: I'd go buy a new rifle now just to be ready in case you draw that tag. You'll need a spare rifle.
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: huntnnw on January 21, 2011, 04:42:59 AM: 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 :chuckle: I plan on doing all the OIL tags with a bow if I ever draw sheep and goat
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: moffitt on January 21, 2011, 12:15:00 PM: Why do you guys say bow over rifle?
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: PolarBear on January 21, 2011, 01:14:33 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: CountryslickR on January 21, 2011, 04:52:40 PM: If you can get close enough.... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Bighorn Rifles
Post by: engelwood on February 28, 2011, 10:35:22 PM: 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.