HuntingBC Champ
Here's a couple of links to Barnes and Nosler ... might want to go with the partition bullet and check the reload manuals, and sites for other guys loading for sheep or white deer loads that could give you what you are looking for:
http://www.nosler.com/Reloading-Data...00-Grains.aspx
http://www.barnesbullets.com/images/...chesterWeb.pdf
HuntingBC Chump
Doesn't take a cannon to pop a set of lungs.......any 6mm will do it with ease
HuntingBC Chump
My ex-girlfriend shot a bison with a 22 mag...
Same ex took a sheep with her .243 so yeah... her dad was packing a .300wm for things with teeth. So go for it I say.
Oh yeah that bison shot with the 22 mag... it was domestic(ish) and in the slaughter house.
Biophiliac
Well that beats me. I've used a 220 Swift on quite a few.Originally Posted by warnniklz
"If you want to hunt beasts you don't see every day,
You have to go places quite out-of-the-way.
You have to go places no others can get to,
You have to get cold and you have to get wet, too."
- Dr. Seuss
HuntingBC Champ
How far is that record book sheep going after being hit with a 243? Will it make it to the cliff? Will it have enough strength left in it to try and jump that 200 foot gouge, wreaking the record book horns you hiked for 5 days to get? I don't Sheep hunt, Hell, I can't even walk, but I think I may go with just a bit bigger bullet! I've heard lots of hair raising story's about Griz trying to eat the Sheep off some hunters backs also. Real sure I'd use my 300 Mag with a decent bullet in it!
Senior Member
a bigger caliber would be nice to drop a sheep in its tracks and stop it from possibly takin that tumble that they always seem to do. I use 270 WSM and thats as small as i would ever bring into that country.
sheep hunting is easy
HuntingBC Chump
Beats me too... She wouldn't let me shoot them. I had to do the skinning. When it comes to girls and guns I'm helpless.Well that beats me. I've used a 220 Swift on quite a few.
you only go around once
I may do a sheep hunt with my 15 year old son this year and thats what he will pack. I have seen him take 3 moose with it and will never doubt this caliber. 85 grain tsx bullets will smash a mooses largest bones.
Banned
it will work just fine
HuntingBC Champ
The one thing to consider is you will be in g-bear country
KEEP SHOOTING OR SHOOT A BIG GUN!!!!
IF YOU DON'T HUNT YOU AINT RIGHT IN THE HEAD!!!!!!!!!
A SCREAMING ELK THERE'S NOTHIN BETTER!!!!!!
KNOW WHEN TO KEEP THE WIFE OUT OF MY HUNTING SPOTS !!!!!!!!!!
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