First, “Shoot Me Down” is a new feature on this blog, so let me explain how it’ll work. I’ll post an opinion and an argument to back it up. And you, in the comments section, can either stand with me or shoot me down.
The person who offers the best argument for or against will be invited to do my job for me—I mean, to post the next “Shoot Me Down” opinion as a special (that means unpaid) guest blogger.
So here we go:
The .260 Remington Is The Best All-Around Whitetail Cartridge
A .308 necked down to .264, the .260 Remington is a light-kicking, flat-shooting, short-action cartridge whose high ballistic coefficients and sectional density make it very accurate and plenty deadly way downrange. (Snipers consider it an excellent “midrange” round, meaning out to 1,000 meters.)
I own a .260 remington, in a Remington Model Seven rifle. It's perfect for up here in northern Maine, with the short barrel. It can still accurately reach out to 200 yards, though I doubt that I can accurately do so. It has dropped 1 deer in its tracks, and another within 15 feet, with the 140 grain factory load. It is very adequate and versatile for deer, and I know people who handload to hunt bear with them.
Indiana-based Total Outdoorsman Challenger Dennis Billingsley likes to hit the local bass ponds at this time of year. His preferred rod is a fairly typical bass setup: a heavyweight Fenwick matched to an Abu Garcia baitcasting reel. But he uses an unorthodox cast. A right-hander, he casts across his body, sidearm-style. “It gives me more control,” he says. “A regular cast is too powerful for the soft presentations I want with my Carolina-rigged plastic worm.”
From my experience, the bottom one works very well if you have a heavy lure. You can usually get another 10 or 15 feet out of a cast if you cast across your body, and you are less likely to break a lure off
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Shoot Me Down: The .260 Rem. Is The Best All-Around Whitetail Cartridge150
First, “Shoot Me Down” is a new feature on this blog, so let me explain how it’ll work. I’ll post an opinion and an argument to back it up. And you, in the comments section, can either stand with me or shoot me down.
The person who offers the best argument for or against will be invited to do my job for me—I mean, to post the next “Shoot Me Down” opinion as a special (that means unpaid) guest blogger.
So here we go:
The .260 Remington Is The Best All-Around Whitetail Cartridge
A .308 necked down to .264, the .260 Remington is a light-kicking, flat-shooting, short-action cartridge whose high ballistic coefficients and sectional density make it very accurate and plenty deadly way downrange. (Snipers consider it an excellent “midrange” round, meaning out to 1,000 meters.)
I own a .260 remington, in a Remington Model Seven rifle. It's perfect for up here in northern Maine, with the short barrel. It can still accurately reach out to 200 yards, though I doubt that I can accurately do so. It has dropped 1 deer in its tracks, and another within 15 feet, with the 140 grain factory load. It is very adequate and versatile for deer, and I know people who handload to hunt bear with them.
Fish Hard to Reach Spots with Side Casts5
Indiana-based Total Outdoorsman Challenger Dennis Billingsley likes to hit the local bass ponds at this time of year. His preferred rod is a fairly typical bass setup: a heavyweight Fenwick matched to an Abu Garcia baitcasting reel. But he uses an unorthodox cast. A right-hander, he casts across his body, sidearm-style. “It gives me more control,” he says. “A regular cast is too powerful for the soft presentations I want with my Carolina-rigged plastic worm.”
From my experience, the bottom one works very well if you have a heavy lure. You can usually get another 10 or 15 feet out of a cast if you cast across your body, and you are less likely to break a lure off
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