Blkram
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- Nov 25, 2013
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I came across a Youtube podcast this evening by The Big Game Hunting Podcast, titled 388: 25 Creedmoor - A triple Threat Cartridge with Richard Mann.
Near the end of the podcast, the interviewer asks a very interesting question:
If you could choose just one cartridge or bullet to hunt with for the rest of your life, would you choose: a cartridge, or a bullet?
I tend to think like Richard Mann in this respect: I would choose a bullet to hunt with for the rest of my life. And that bullet would be the Nosler AccuBond.
Why?
Because, I like to hunt a wide variety of game, and under a wide variety of hunting circumstances, such as in the thick, dark timber to the wide open plains and mountain alpine or tundra, and hunting with one bullet would allow me the choice of several cartridges across a wide range of calibers so that I could still use several different rifles and cartridges to hunt with.
I would be able to hunt with 25 caliber cartridges and rifles from the 250 Savage on up through the 375 caliber with my 376 Steyr, and this covers game from deer and antelope species on up through large and/or dangerous game such as grizzly, buffalo and bison. In between, I would still be able to hunt with the 6.5s, the 270s, the 7MMs, the 30 cals, the 338s, the 35s and the 9.3! 9 calibers with one bullet to cover them all!
The bullet is easy to develop loads for, performs very well on game, and is consistently accurate across the calibers and cartridges I have used it in to date. Hard not to choose this as the bullet!
And with rifles with detachable magazines, I can still hunt with my lever actions such as the BLR and Winchester Model 88, along with my bolt action rifles.
Which would you choose?
If you could choose just one cartridge or bullet to hunt with for the rest of your life, would you choose: a cartridge, or a bullet?
I tend to think like Richard Mann in this respect: I would choose a bullet to hunt with for the rest of my life. And that bullet would be the Nosler AccuBond.
Why?
Because, I like to hunt a wide variety of game, and under a wide variety of hunting circumstances, such as in the thick, dark timber to the wide open plains and mountain alpine or tundra, and hunting with one bullet would allow me the choice of several cartridges across a wide range of calibers so that I could still use several different rifles and cartridges to hunt with.
I would be able to hunt with 25 caliber cartridges and rifles from the 250 Savage on up through the 375 caliber with my 376 Steyr, and this covers game from deer and antelope species on up through large and/or dangerous game such as grizzly, buffalo and bison. In between, I would still be able to hunt with the 6.5s, the 270s, the 7MMs, the 30 cals, the 338s, the 35s and the 9.3! 9 calibers with one bullet to cover them all!
The bullet is easy to develop loads for, performs very well on game, and is consistently accurate across the calibers and cartridges I have used it in to date. Hard not to choose this as the bullet!
And with rifles with detachable magazines, I can still hunt with my lever actions such as the BLR and Winchester Model 88, along with my bolt action rifles.
Which would you choose?
