These threads always turn out that way...

You well never be able to help the poorly uneducated trifling thought process of the lessor hunters that cant embrace the 257wby has the choose cartridge of Zeus

But you will always hear from the Kool-aid drinkers^^^^^^^

lol, that was good!! 5pts for sure

Killed another mule deer this year… click.. boom… flop

But with the big 7mm?

My favorite is a .257 Roberts. I have two.

But the last center fire rifle that I would ever sell is my 760 in 30-06

Well I don’t like to argue so I try to own at least one of each. Lol
With that said my all time favorite, if I do my part it’s never let me down, 257 Roberts. Varmints to Deer it gets the job done!
Next favorite is 270 Winchester.

not this year. Ironically I did try, but missed. so grab 257 incase the 28 was off. dumped Mulie at 300

28 wasnt off but I'm still not sure how I missed. I was laying down on bipod, I did dial but it was only 310. 99.9% I sailed it high.

first rifle miss in along time.

So, your 1st choice was the 28. Correct?

its new and shinny.

That dang Vortex

Most of the animals at my property are between 300 and 1200lbs so its big bore for me now. Got free ranging Elk, Reds, Hogs…

crossed my mind

Did anyone say 3006? Cause if you didn't you are probably gay

6.5 Creedmoor is KING!!!



Already partial to my .270 but probably .280 Win I roll my own and the bullet choices are a bit better than my .277

I change my pix to 30-0six

I have hunted with mostly 308 round but I also had good success with 3006 and 6.8 Rifle rounds.

It all depends on location in Texas. I had hunted a little and owned a couple rifles back then, usually one at a time. In the mid early '70's we moved home to Dallas from Chicago, I got a job with one of the largest wholesalers of any kind in Texas who wanted me to concentrate initially only on fishing tackle 1st, then guns and a 2nd in house branch of 3 brands of lawn mowers that was was using it's own Sales group.

The Schoelkopf Company of Dallas had been a fixture in sporting goods, farm products from windmills to you name it and many other things in Texas since before the turn of the century when 3 German brothers came to Dallas who were strong manufacturers of leather farm & ranch products in 1854. Some time in the early '60's had been bought out by a SBIT aka the LaSalle Street Small Business Investment Trust, based in Chicago. The SBIT bought business's like the Milwaukee Braves Baseball Team , and sold it to to the guy who owned Lowes and it became the Atlanta Braves.

The Lasalle St SBIT also bought 3 commercial & sporting goods companies in the Pacific N'west & had just sold them when I was hired, and bought Ellett Bros, in Chapin North Carolina with trained women reps working the phones selling to dealers in 10 states and the largest phone bill of any commercial business in the Sporting Goods Industry and almost bigger than the Pentagon's phone bill, and move my base of operation to Denver Berns Wholesale in Denver, umm probably the largest outdoor product retailer in the Mountain West.

All of this occurred over a fairly short period of about 8-10 years. The Schoellkopf Family is still widely known in Dallas. The location I went to work for was in Carrollton around the corner from the Ford Plant on Belt Line with 4 rail car loading ports, instead of the 6 loading ports in the original building downtown, where the city of Dallas has built a coliseum & torn it down and a huge multi story parking garage and City Hall and the new Police Station.

I was one of 6 outside sales reps hired and assigned different parts of the State, at first North Texas from Dallas to the Red River with stiff well known local competition from old time wholesalers plus I won the battle in house to get all of east Texas and eventually all of southeast Texas too , from Beaumont to west of Houston where those local distributor companies were weakest and served from elsewhere.

When Schoellkopf Dallas was closed is when I went to Stoeger Industries in New Jersey to rep Sako and their other products in more than just 5 states.

Would I do this again ....probably but I'd hire local reps on my own and chase more manufacturers, and take the better new product lines when the opportunity was presented ...like the handgun line from Atlanta I am still beating myself up over not taking when offered as a sure winner.
Ron

After the animals I’ve seen on my remote Hill Country property, I’d say again “big bore” because some of the free rangers I have are up to 1,200 lbs.

I have Elk, Red deer, maybe a hybrid, Sitka, Sika, Mule deer, Axis, Fallow, Whitetail, Hogs, show hogs, Black Bear, Aoudad, Big Horn, and Cougar big game wise. I was astonished initially and still am all the time.

I had to raise all of my hanging feeders because of elk.

I think you could get by with a 30-06 or something like that. You never know whats gonna pop out these days.

Even in Florida my kin folk should be carrying a 45/70 to check the mail with the bears, hogs, and pythons.

What animal do you have that is 1200 lbs? A wandering Brangus bull?

Also interested in hearing about the blacktail deer you have seen

.30-.06 in 150/185 grain, plenty of punch power to take out any indegenous TX animal with no issues, as well as most if not all exotics too...

Something like that on the heavy beast. I don’t know where all these funky deer species come from but they seem to be thriving all the way up to around 2,400ft. Seem to thrive like the Pinion pines, pure spring water, and Lacy Oaks.

Tridents, just moved from Houston to west of San Antonio and we can’t grow a garden. We can’t run um off. Front yard the last two weeks ac7b7ba3_070d_4c8b_8657_7d0a757f421a.jpeg[/img]


They call um black buck. Dang, worse than squirrels 🐿️

Looks like a good problem to have to me. As for the garden, just high fence it. Unless you're growing my grandparents' kind of garden, cost should be pretty reasonable.