Remington rifles with Model 700 actions, and last but not least Ruger’s line of M-77 receiver style bolt action rifles. Anything in the Browning line of bolt guns or for that matter lever action rifles. The real answer to this question is select a name brand rifle with a history of quality.Īn example of several rifles are Winchester Model 70’s of current construction.
Nice rifles but a bit out of my wheelhouse, and in many cases yours as well I would tend to believe. The only issue with my choice here is that these rifles start at about $15,000 and quickly move up to about $25.000 in no time flat. Satterlee builds some of the very best Mauser rifles out of pure titanium from a scratch piece of steel, cut rifled barrel that shoot sub M.O.A., and stocks that are to die for in terms of quality and fit. I will start with answering the question as to what is the best 300 Win Mag you can buy? I would not be wrong if I started to buy a rifle hand built by Slatterns Arms located in Dead Wood South Dakota. When turning to some additional review information regarding the 300 Win Mag and so as to answer several questions about the cartridge and paired rifle. Range shooting with a spotter to 1500 yards, and warm target big game hunting here in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation tended to prove to me that the new bullet was outstanding and upgraded the 300 Win Mag still another notch due to that high BC ( Ballistic Coefficient ) retained by the new Hornady projectile.
REMINGTON 1903 SPRINGFIELD 300 WIN MAG FULL
So, why the 300 Win Mag? Because Hornady knew full well that one pile of hunters shot the cartridge and paired rifles, and it would be accepted if the 300 Win Mag handled it well. When the folks at Hornady Ammunition developed the first ELD bullets that have come to be known as ultra efficient high BC projectiles, it was the 300 win Mag that got the call for the first commercial loadings, test runs, and being I was there seeing first hand the net effects of the cartridge when applied to long range big game animals. In this case, the 300 Win Mag need not share its fame or value with anyone or anything, because it has earned its place in the best of the best ever cartridge designed for a rifle chamber. However, it will be history and time that will dictate just how strong a given cartridge and rifle are. Oh, I know that there are a pile of new loads in production today, and many of them are being well received and used in the field. Because the 300 Win Mag has withstood over 40 years of dealer shelve competition by other cartridge sales and not been set aside by anything else the best of the best is obvious. There is an old saying among rifle shooters and that is “history will calm the best”. I must say that when most of these rifle types and brands are chambered in 300 Win Mag they jump to the head of the pack intently. In so far as I have reviewed quite a number of different rifle brands and actions here. The CZ is my game rifle, the Armalite is my ultra long range 1500 yard steel plate target rifle. I have very few rifles that I consider very special to me and my custom shop built CZ American in 300 Win Mag is one of them, as well as my ArmaLite Chassis sniper rifle. In our hunting camps of the day ( 1960’s ) in Wyoming’s Hole In The Wall area, we used the big 300 and its buddy the 7mm Remington Magnum as follow-up rifles in the event an animal was hit and leaving the area still under power. The Winchester 300 Magnum ( Win Mag ) was developed in American in 1963, back in those days the advancements of the super cartridges was still in its early stages, but when the big 300 hit the sporting good store shelves, and gun writer finished reviewing the new cartridge both the Model 70 Winchester and that new super cartridge took off like wildfire.īased on the 375 H&H Magnum case, but necked to a 30 caliber bullet, the 300 Win Mag was quickly found to be a very flexible ultra long range cartridge. When long range is the game the 300 Win Mag is the name, and the following information will give you some idea to exactly why this is the case. Developed to up gun the 30-06 Springfield, then taken over by massive numbers of hunters in the American west, the 300 Winchester Magnum has become a benchmark of American high power rifle cartridge design.