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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2024, 06:27:22 PM »
270wsm for me.

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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2024, 06:36:09 PM »
6.5X55 old like me :chuckle:
"a fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi"

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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2024, 06:46:29 PM »
257 Weatherby or 300 Weatherby

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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2024, 06:54:08 PM »
22LR


Seriously though, I shoot a 7mm stw for everything from coyotes to bears.

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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2024, 06:55:04 PM »
Probably my Browning A bolt in 270 Winchester. I have a 30/06 that I like too but it's at least a pound heavier, so for most mule deer hunting I'm going to go with the lighter rifle.

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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #20 on: June 14, 2024, 06:55:10 PM »
.300WM or .270WSM typically. Couldn’t pass on a browning LR for half off so this year might be a 6.5manbun

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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #21 on: June 14, 2024, 07:00:01 PM »
300 wsm
Liberals have a mental disorder

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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #22 on: June 14, 2024, 07:30:44 PM »

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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #23 on: June 14, 2024, 07:59:56 PM »
Really like my 28 Nosler
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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #24 on: June 14, 2024, 08:07:51 PM »
  Jack O Conner was right 270.


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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #25 on: June 14, 2024, 08:09:07 PM »
Any big game I kill with a rifle is with my 1967 Remington 7mm mag

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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #26 on: June 14, 2024, 09:46:29 PM »
6.5 PRC/147 ELD-M.


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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #28 on: June 14, 2024, 10:44:57 PM »
.280 Rem was great when the ammo was still readily available. I started with a .270 Win. Ended up buying another one a couple years ago. Tikka with 140gr Fed Premium Trophy Bonded Tip. Light and lethal. Love that gun.


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Re: What’s your mule deer caliber
« Reply #29 on: June 15, 2024, 05:12:29 AM »
Guess I'll just keep using my boring old 30/06 with 180gr Partitions.
Works for everything I hunt.

 


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