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To be fair. I have a couple family friends who have harvested animals at 600-800 yards. They are also extremely experienced in their craft. In no way am I saying the average joe should try and take that shot on a living animal.Who do you know who's ever killed a deer at 800 yards? Who do you know who can shoot that well regardless of equipment? Heart pumps a little faster when you have a deer or elk in your sights.
I mentioned a friend who's the best shot I've ever seen. We were deer hunting and a coyote walked over the crest of a rise 400 yards out there. My friend raised up his plain jane sporterized WWII '06 and rolled it down the hill. One shot.
I can't do that. Don't know anyone else who can.
To be a successful hunter you need a beat up old pickup, a basic good quality rifle in any of the calibers mentioned here, and
EXPERIENCE.
Cheers.
6.8 Western? If so, how is it really? I am really curious.My 6.8 keeps scoring.
Browning Xbolt is in that range I can tell you they shoot great. Rough tech tika looks really good for the price too I see it in store and it really catch my eye. Looks really cozy and functional.Tikka T3x roughtech. Choose your caliber. It has a synthetic stock, fluted bolt and barrel, threaded barrel, crisp trigger. It has everything you're looking for and under a grand. Pair it with a quality base, mount/rings, and a nice piece of glass and you're set for long distance shooting and hunting. All you gotta do is pick the caliber. https://www.tikka.fi/en-us/rifles/tikka-t3x/t3x-lite-roughtech only down fall is they are not as customizable as say a Remington 700 action.
The problem is the OP specified "American made", Tikka is not.For all around, I would go with a Tikka T3X in 30-06 or 270 in stainless. They come with a good synthetic stock. Tikka does not make budget stuff. There rifles are made for hunting with smooth simple actions, mag fed, light and very accurate. Other manufactures have the same features but not with the all around quality.
YUP, he sure does a good job at it don't he!Well, once again, @Andy54Hawken stole my thunder and made pretty much every point I was going to make.
My only add would be my personal preference for the .270. I've been exclusively using a Winchester model 70 that I bought brand new in 1963 chambered in .270 and have been very successful with it. Over the past 57 years it's performed flawlessly on:
Elk
Deer
Bear
Cougar
Mountain Goat
Big Horn Sheep
Etc Etc Etc
Agreed. I had a Browning Hells canyon long range in 6.5 creedmore for awhile. Great gun but I was not a fan of the side to side trigger play on the rifle I had.Browning Xbolt is in that range I can tell you they shoot great. Rough tech tika looks really good for the price too I see it in store and it really catch my eye. Looks really cozy and functional.
Not made in America either.My .270 Browning Medallion X-Bolt is 1MOA at 200 yards. It is experienced! Ha! 140 gr AccuBond over 54 gr RL-19. But really....pick a rifle that will do the deal and hunt with it a while.
Thumbs up on this recommendation.Under $1K, I would look at Tikka, Howa/ Weatherby Vanguard, or Savage.