Okay as some of you know I just bought a mosin nagant 91/30 (don't get me wrong it is a great shooter and I may use it for deer hunting If I go up to my friends cabin this year.) but I just don't know how efficient enough and if I were going on a once in a life time big game trip I would want to know that i'm going to make that shot. the guns I have are a .22lr Remington 597, marlin model 80 .22lr, some old old old .22lr single shot pistol, Benelli (H&K
Montefeltro super 90 12ga, Remington 700 sps varmint .223, Remington 700 adl synthetic .243 (its a newer one bought it in like 2011, and it has the sps stock with out the floor plate.) and lastly my mosin nagant 91/30 7.62x54r. know that I have listed all of my guns... my parents say I have way to many you may too. but if I were to go some where my dad said he would lend me his 30-06 A-bolt but... I have been begging him if we could go on a elk hunt in Wyoming or something like he use to do when he was younger. what would I use the .22s and .223 are out of the question but the .243 I don't think I would really have that much faith in because of how small of a cartridge it is. on the other hand the 7.62x54r I have no doubt would take down even a moose with proper placement. but I don't know how affective a mosin would be and also I feel it is just to long and heavy to carry around all day. sooo.... I had a thought... why don't I go out and buy my own 30-06. and this is what I got "Blake I don't think you should get one. where would you shoot it?" I said "around here at coyotes" (ill get to that in a bit) he said " its to big of a round for out here and you will have to be very careful.(we live in a slug area only for deer but on a farm and have farms on all sides and one of them being a game farm. so its not like there are houses 200 yards away. at least in the way we do most of our rifle shooting around here its into a big corn field hill. beyond that is bunch of our woods so im not real worried about some one getting shot. I ALWAYS MAKE SURE I KNOW WERE MY FAMILY IS IN A GENERAL AREA AND TELL THEM WERE I AM GOING IN A GENERAL ARE WHEN IM USING A RIFLE AND I KNOW MY BACK DROP IVE BEEN THROUGH GUN SAFETY) also you will use that .223 a heck of a lot more." I said "dad I know but I would probably sell my 223 and my .243 in order to buy the 30-06." he said " It seems like all you do is want that gun and want this gun so much and now you want to sell them." there I just kind of stopped because I knew what he meant an I understand that but... do you guys think that I should sell those two rifles in order to get a 30-06 or do you think im just dreaming up crap. if I were to get the 30-06 it would be used primarily for all big game hunting and for coyote hunting then. I may use the mosin for that. if I were to get the 30-06 I would probably get a model 70 or browning x-bolt but I am open to other ideas. I do know that some of you will say that I should not sell my other guns but that is part of the reason why I think I am dreaming up crap that I will never use.

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