What bolt action hunting rifle for just under $900.00 ?
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My youngest son John has been hunting for 20 years, using a nearly 50-year-old 6mm Remington and a 100-plus-year-old 30-06 rifle! He’s done well with them, but mentioned that he’d like a rifle better suited for long range use, on game up to the size of an elk out to 500 yards. I told him I’d like to buy that rifle for his birthday, but he needed to do the research and I wanted to keep the price to $1,000. (we actually got in under $900) – what did I pick? Watch the video to find out!
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Good choice
I would like to have seen a tikka on that list. I’ve not messed with a bergara but would like to know how they are in comparison to tikka. I’m a big tikka fan of ya haven’t noticed. 😆
Henry Long Ranger .308
Exactly what I went with, except 300 Win Mag. Hits with a 210gr Berger VLD Hunter at 1000 are way easier than they should be.
308 norma mag
168 eld hornady
75gr. Imr 7828
300 mag and 7 mag depending on witch one I didn’t use last and ELD-X or CX bullets. Both bing bangs are all weather Ruger M77.
7MM Rem Mag 168g Accubond LR over IMR7977 3050 fps. My choice for elk, deer, bear, moose, and anything really.
Tikka T3x hunter is my choice and in a 6.5×55 Swede. In my New England world it's all I need. Everything that I don't like is featured in that Bergara.( Plastic stock, Cerakote finish, Spiral fluted bolt, that mess at the end of the barrel) Yes, I'm definitely old school. LOL
Good choice. Good round and a good platform like that will lead to many great memories with your son!
WTW is the man !!!!!!!
Great pick. I’m not a long range shooter, so my choice in load is more focused on terminal ballistics. I use 160gr Nosler Partition at 3000 fps from my 7mm RM. coyotes, a hog, several deer, and several elk have all fallen to this load. None required more than one shot.
I have a B14 "Hunter" model in 308 Win. w/ a Burris 2×7 mounted on a DNZ aircraft grade aluminum alloy scope mount. My most accurate load is a Rem brass stoked with 43g of IMR4895 lit up by CCI34 primer launching a Nosler 150g ETip Spitzer with groups less than 2 inches at 200 yards. Accuracy is even better at 200 yds using Lapua 167g Scenar OTP factory ammo.
Ruger American in 7mm-08 and handlanding with Hammer Hunter 169gr bullets.
18" 6.5CM for use with my can, still get 2600fps with 143 ELD-X and 41.5gr of H4350
I use the exact same rifle with a vx5 3-15×44 Leupold. Shooting factory 162 grain eldx.
CVA CASCADE super shooter made in Begaras factory for alot less. Happy shooting !!!
Nice choice. Much like a Remington 700 action. I have a custom Hart barrel in 7mm STW on a Remington 700 and we know the problem there is availability of ammo. It never caught on good enough. 7mm is a great bullet, 7mm-08 is just a medium game down cartridge. The 7mm Rem Mag is everywhere and a well proven round. I had a friend that took many a Kodiak Bear with one.
Weatherby Vanguard…it’s a Howa at its base, and they have great barrels…I have a .308 that shoots federal 308A’s into a 3/4” group at 100 yards…I threw a VX-3 leupy in Talley one piece rings and it’s just fantastic…
Bought a B14 Timber left hand last year in 300WM, changed out the nice timber stock for a bedded, light, pillared composite stock, Timney HIT trigger and its a great rifle. Shoots 1/2 if I do my job.
I chose the Bergara for the long mag well, means I can load Berger’s etc out to the lands and still fit them in the mag.
EVERY hunting rifle I have ever bought was shooting a clover leaf ☘️ 🍀 at 100… I paid under 400 for each past 25 years
7mm mag with nosler 140s
So just found this video I’ll be shooting a 7mm rem mag weatherby with RL26 154 Hornady Interbonds at 3200 fps DEADLY ON ELK
Thumbs up. Good choice.
This is very much what I would choose for my first bolt gun!
I have several rifle in different calibers but for hunting I stick with the same rifle I have used for over 25 years. A original Remington 700 Sendero with 26" heavy barrel in 25-06 with H-S Precision stock. I purchased the rifle when they were first introduced, never fire a factory round through it. I worked up 5 loads for it and ended up with Nosler 100gr ballistic tip. I have taken deer from 50 yds to 500 yds, never had to track a deer, with the shot placement, that combination is devastating. I stopped hunting a few years ago but get the 25-06 out from time to time and it will still shoot a ragged hole 5 shot group at 100 yds. Have a S&W performance center AR-10 in 6.5 CM which is crazy accurate for a semi-auto, been looking at Bergara 6.5 bolt rifles.
Started with a 7RM as the lone gun, got into wanting to do some comps, sold the 7RM, got a 7-08 and a 338WM. The 7-08 was the one that really ended up doing the heavy lifting on the hunting end of things, it happened to be what I was carrying that day with moose and elk. Both of those were 700's, the 338 was a KS Mtn rifle. I came to the conclusion I could do 95% of my hunting with the 7-08 after a few yrs, and it also is a very comfortable range gun with many applications available to it as well.
Love 7mm mag!
Got an elk hunt next month but going with my Weatherby Mark V in 6.5-300 pushing a 143 eldx @ 3,400 fps. It should do the trick.
280 AI 162 eldx just under 3k
I am taking one of my 338 Federals out for black bear with reloads 185GMX. I'll probably use one of my 6.5 Grendels for white-tail with Barnes 120 TTSX. Now if i could just squeegee in a cow elk somehow it would be 6.5 PRC for her- and I'd use factory ammo for her.
I run a Tikka T3x 7mm Rem Mag. I am super impressed with the Bergaras I have seen too. Using the 162 ELDX Precision Hunter (When Hornady pull their bloody finger out and get some over to us in NZ Goddam it!!!!!!!)
Other ammo that runs well out of the Tikka is Sako unsurprisingly, Gamehead Pro.
I only have one suggestion, suppressor. My rifle is an animal without it on and with it on it is a tack driving stone cold killer at ethical long range.
Excellent choice in the rifle and caliber! I would try 162 eldx and the 150gr accubond, thanks for sharing! Stay safe and God bless