Is .300 WM with 180gr bullets adequate for small game like roe deer, fox and coyote? My theory is the bullet is so big, heavy and going so fast it will zip right through. Or will it blow them apart?
Is .300 WM with 180gr bullets adequate for small game like roe deer, fox and coyote?
Foxes and coyotes will explode. Roe deer will, too, depending on the impact, but that can happen with .308 too.
Also, where do you live where it has coyotes and roe deer?
Also also, why are you such a gay?
>he doesn‘t know
What if I use FMJ? My only rifle is a Bergara B14 HMR in .300 WM and I don‘t handload (yet) so I‘m limited to ‚full power‘ .300 WM factory ammo.
Just cut the end of your barrel really short so you reduce velocity and over penetration.
Stop trolling, bro!
Okay, just shoot from further away then
Stop trolling
Just get a cheap .223. You’ll save money at the range too
Also, the idea with varminting is to have a really light, fast bullet that massively expands or fragments and dumps so much energy it doesn’t make an exit wound
Yeah
it will blow them apart. you want to be shooting 220gr solids.
>.300wm
>for varmint and small game
lol
lmao even
Name a single flaw
>minimum 140+ cpr for small game
>heavy higher recoil gun for small game
>and pure cope over not being able to afford truly bigboolet silly gun
I'd unironically have more respect if you used 338/408/416/50bmg just because at least those would be clearly hilarious and someone who can afford it. 300wm for the rare actual long range elk hunter or something who actually knows what they're doing? Fine. 300wm for a memegun memehunter? Simultaneously retarded AND poorfag cope.
Not an argument.
Yeah, it's more like three arguments. Which you didn't refute at all.
Ywnbaw
Yes, that's true. Did you have a point to make? Or are you just being stupid?
>Did you have a point to make?
Yeah. Ywnbaw
Yeah, but I don't think anyone here wants to be one, so again, did you have an ACTUAL point here?
Have you ever been to Dilatenhagen? Or do you prefer Seethenhagen?
lol noguns
>Or will it blow them apart?
Depends on the bullet design. Expanding bullet? Blows them apart. Something solid that doesn't expand much if any like an FMJ? Fine.
>My theory is the bullet is so big, heavy and going so fast it will zip right through. Or will it blow them apart?
You would be incorrect and this question has a lot more to do with bullet construction than anything else. Tougher bullets that expand/fragment later are commonly used in factory 300wm because people want them for larger animals. If you hit an animal with any bullet that opens up quickly and is above that expansion threshold it's going to do a lot of damage.
On really skinny things like a coyote I've had bullets do noticeably less damage than what theyre capable of before passing out the other side but again thats because they werent designed to open up quickly. Something like a coyote leg is probably so thin that it would be hard to find a bullet that would open up fast enough to do any extra damage. Watch a youtube ballistic gel test of something like a 223 Vmax bullet (designed for varminting and to open up instantly) against Something like an eldx bullet (designed to hold togethera bit) in a 308 or larger and you'll have a good example of what the destruction might look like and be able to judge if the animal is thick enough to get the most out of a load.
Could use frangible honestly. Not like someone shooting something so big at small game gives a shit about the meat or fur anyway.
But at the same time who fucking cares if it passes right through? With something that big, high energy and flat shooting at hunting ranges there is zero excuse not to have a vital shot every single time unless OP is a raging gay who would be happy with shooting an animal in the leg and then just leaving or something.
>it's a 4channig slide thread
>/pol/nig noguns can't help but instantly start in on trannies which are on "his" mind 24/7
errytime
Dilate
4chan is rent free in your head chud
300WM is awesome, but it's quite a lot of gun for NA predators.
What about predditors?
There is a lot of debate about whether or not going big or small is most appropriate for them. I see the arguments both ways.
I‘m afraid it‘s underpowered sonny
Youre gonna wanna us da old odd six
no, you need at least .458 for anything larger than a squirrel.
>He doesn't rabbit hunt with a .375 ruger
>300 wm
>Small game