how do you guy's feel about browning's

**BIG MIKE 2003** · October 22nd, 2008, 10:48 AM

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just bought a browming a bolt with thumbholed stock in300 wsm is this too much?plus 26 inch heavey barrel ?

**knight0334** · October 22nd, 2008, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by BIG MIKE 2003

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just bought a browming a bolt with thumbholed stock in300 wsm is this too much?plus 26 inch heavey barrel ?

Browning makes good guns, period.

Too much for what? lol

"Required" power needed for game are heavily relative to distance and critter type. For whitetail - at 50-200yards, yeah I'd say the 300WSM too much. But beyond that you're in its designed operating window. Too much "power" too close and you end up having bullets come apart on impact and not doing enough damage to organs or penetrating far enough, making alot of burger. Too little energy and the bullet doesn't expand properly and can make a nice clean hole in and not causing enough damage to kill the critter in a reasonably humane manner causing you to have to shoot it again and destroying more meat.

In one of the last 2-3 month's Shooting Times magazines there was an article about the "100 yard rule". It explained things quite simple like.

Think of it this way.. The 30-30 is a 50-200yrd gun. The 7x57, 243, 257roberts, etc are 100-275yrd guns. The 25-06 is a 125-300yrd gun. The 270, 280, 308, 30-06 are 150-350yrd guns. The 7mm mags are 150-375yrd guns. The 300 mags are 200-400yrd guns. ....these are all speculative classifications on whitetail based on mine, my family's and my friends' experiences since we stepped foot on this soil in the early 1600's. lol