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I am in the process of building deer points in Colorado. I plan to make a once in a lifetime hunt in a few years. Long story short, I have an acuaintance that is an Elk/Mule Deer guide down Gunnison way. They take some dandy Mule deer, and some decent Elk out of their areas. Really nice Mulies. I bought a Remmy 300 Ultra for the occasion.(Good excuse to buy a new rifle). Should we decide to do a combo hunt, I will be ready. I know my Otter-Six would be just fine. My 25-Otter would do in a pinch. Heck the old 270 would likely fill the bill. But,I doubt I will ever be able to go on this particular hunt again. Cost combined with the 6 to 8 points it will take to even think about a tag, will see to that. I want a flat shooting, hard hitting rifle using 180gr controled expansion bullets. I am basically recoil proof, and this thing will SHOOT! A little tweaking and it will go 1/2 MOA easily with 180 or 200 gr bullets. That's my choice for Elk and Mule deer. Now all I need are the preference points.
Recoil proof, I claim to be pretty good when it comes to recoil myself, but recoil proof! whats your trick to that! I've been shooting RUM's for a long time and can shoot my 7MM RUM to 1/2MOA, but I'm far from recoil proof.