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WildBill
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What weapon caliber or gauge do you feel is the best for each region and hunting grounds.
Northern region (Canada & northern states)
WOODLANDS:
BRUSH:
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
Eastern region
WOODLANDS:
BRUSH:
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
Western region
WOODLANDS:
BRUSH:
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
Southern region
WOODLANDS:
BRUSH:
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
Just copy & paste the above into your reply. I probably should have left swamps out. But around here we have different kinds of swamps, grass, spruce or cedar.
Bill
Last edited on Fri May 22nd, 2009 07:05 PM by WildBill
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Northern region (Canada & northern states)
WOODLANDS: 30.06
BRUSH: 30 30 or 12 ga. slug
SWAMP: 30 30 or 12 ga. slug
GRASSLANDS: 300 win mag
Eastern region
WOODLANDS: 30 30
BRUSH: 12 ga. slug
SWAMP: 12 ga. slug
GRASSLANDS: .308 win
Western region
WOODLANDS: 30 30
BRUSH: 12 ga. slug
SWAMP: 12 ga. slug
GRASSLANDS: 270
Southern region
WOODLANDS: 243
BRUSH: 12 or 20 ga. slug
SWAMP: 12 or 20 ga. slug
GRASSLANDS: 7mm/08
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I nearly fell out of my chair. LOL
Northern region (Canada & northern states)
North Dakota
WOODLANDS:
BRUSH:
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
OPEN AREAS : 25/300 WSM 110 gr. Accubond 3655 fps
Eastern region
Maryland
WOODLANDS: 12 ga Remington solid copper slug
BRUSH:12 ga Remington solid copper slug
SWAMP:12 ga Remington solid copper slug
GRASSLANDS: NONE
West Virgina
WOODLANDS 300WSM
BRUSH .35 Rem
Pennsylvania
WOODLANDS: .270 WSM
BRUSH .35 Rem
Western region
No Experience
WOODLANDS:
BRUSH:
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
Southern region
Texas
WOODLANDS: 25-06
BRUSH: .35 Rem
SWAMP: .35 Rem
GRASSLANDS: 25-06
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Southern region
WOODLANDS: Anything that will reach 100 yards
BRUSH: Anything that will reach 200 yards.
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
I hunt the Edwards Plateau region of Texas. Woodlands are cedar thickets, 'bought the same as brush. Don't have any open grasslands, at least not n the sense of the western regions. I'm not exactly sure what this "swamp" thing is, never seen such a place...
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Northern region (Canada & northern states)
WOODLANDS:
BRUSH:
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
Eastern region
WOODLANDS: 270 winchester
BRUSH: 12 guage slug
SWAMP: 270 winchester
GRASSLANDS: 270 winchester
Western region
WOODLANDS:
BRUSH:
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
Southern region
WOODLANDS:
BRUSH:
SWAMP:
GRASSLANDS:
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7.62X54R for all. If I think I'm too far away, I'll move up or not shoot. Ain't no such thing as too close, and if the bolt sticks there is the bayo. So far as brushy swampy goes, I don't believe that a 182 gr pill is going to be deflected very much, and since I'm not pulling the trigger if I can't see hair, it doesn't matter.
She's a mite heavy for walkabout, that I'll admit.
Radical approach, eh?
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Northern region (Canada & northern states)
WOODLANDS: 30-06 35 whelen
BRUSH: 358 win
SWAMP: 45-70
GRASSLANDS: 280
Eastern region
WOODLANDS: 300 savage
BRUSH: 30-30
SWAMP: 45-70 or 12 gauge
GRASSLANDS: 260 Rem
Western region
WOODLANDS: 30-06
BRUSH: 45-70
SWAMP: 45-70
GRASSLANDS: .260 or 280 rem
Southern region
WOODLANDS: 257 roberts
BRUSH: 375 win
SWAMP: 45-70
GRASSLANDS: 25-06
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All classes and category's:
Ruger M77 stainless syn stock 300 winmag 165gr barnes sitting on top of 77gr of rl22
yup go ahead and say it "there goes another one bullet barney"
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If I could only have one for all those region's it would be a Rem 660 w/20" barrel, a 2 3/4x scope and chambered in 308. I can say that because I had it, my theiveing kid has it now! It is short enough to handle well in all areas, has enought scope to shoot well to 300+ yds, is light enough and balances well enough not to be cunbersome and it is in a cartridge more than adequate for any white tail any where. Last edited on Thu Oct 29th, 2009 04:57 PM by Don Fischer
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Don Fischer wrote: If I could only have one for all those region's it would be a Rem 660 w/20" barrel, a 2 3/4x scope and chambered in 308. I can say that because I had it, my theiveing kid has it now! It is short enough to handle well in all areas, has enought scope to shoot well to 300+ yds, is light enough and balances well enough not to be cunbersome and it is in a cartridge more than adequate for any white tail any where.
Great minds think alike.  Mine has been worked on a bit. it now sits in an H&S Precision Fibertahne stock made for a short action Rem. 700 that I adapted to the 660. Scope is an all steel original Weaver K-3. The entire rifle has been painted in camouflage of my own design. It's the third and hopefully final stock for that rifle. he first felt like crap and even with a pad kicked the snot out of me. I replaced it with a fajen mannlicher style stock that I really liked. While in that stock, I made the second longest shot on any game animal inmy life. One of my hunting buddies had wounded a large Mule Deer and I was fortunate enough to take it down running at 427 paces. The three of us paced it off and averaged the count which came to that 427 pace figure. Guess you could call it a luck shot. Lucky for me and unlucky for the deer.
Years later, when I moved to Arizona, Remington did a recall due to problems with the trigger. The local Remington repair shop had to open up the stock a bit for the new trigger to fit but forgot to seal the wood. During ahunt in some heavy rain, I guess enough water got into the stock to cause it to swell and split. About that time there was an article about H&S Precision and thei synthetic stocks. They were just a couple hundred miles up the road from me so the wife and I took a little trip up to Flagstaff and got a tour of the plant and I got two stocks, one for my 660 and another for my Remington 700 BDL in 30-06. This was way back in late 1980 as I recall and I've never had reason to regret buying either stock.
FWIW, if you like short light rifles, try a Ruger 77 RSI, the one with the full length stock. The one I have, also in .308 Win. is a real sweetheart in handling although I must admit, very fussy when it comes to ammo. Guess you can't have everything. 
I wil ladmit that for one subspecies of Whitetail Deer, the Coues Deer of southern Arizona and New Mexico, as small as they are, I would much rather carry my Winchester M70 .300 Win. mag. Shots on those little buggers can be an awful long way out and they're a very easily spooked deer. They are extremely hard to see as they blend in so well in that desert landscape. It's like trying to spot a ghost.
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Northern region (Canada & northern states)
WOODLANDS: .300 win mag
BRUSH: .300 win mag
SWAMP: .300 win mag
GRASSLANDS: .300 win mag
Eastern region
WOODLANDS: 30-06
BRUSH: 7mm rem mag
SWAMP:7mm rem mag
GRASSLANDS: 7mm rem mag(.270 win)
Western region
WOODLANDS: 30-06
BRUSH: 7mm rem mag
SWAMP: 30-06
GRASSLANDS:7mm rem mag (300 win mag)
Southern region
WOODLANDS:30-06
BRUSH: 7mm rem mag
SWAMP: 7mm rem mag
GRASSLANDS: 7mm rem mag or .300 win mag
AS you can probably tell i like the 7 mm rem mag and .300 win mag in the swamp and brush, why you might ask because i want them to drop right their no if and or buts about it those to will do it, my next favroit is the 06 also with great droping power put in the woodlands setting i can track a little better if i do make that not so great of a shot, grass lands i want a flat shotting gun the .270 win would work but again i favor the 7mm and .300 win mag.
that is just the way i see it
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