yeah, Remington had an issue with the safety design, that was something easily fixed, but of course not putting a cartridge in the chamber until your about to shoot is the best route to take on those older remingtons.
Id point out that 100% of the performance you get is the result of the projectile you select and your ability for consistent and precise/ proper shot placement. for deer a nosler, speer or hornady 150 grain bullet is a proven performer, some others have less than ideal track records and of couse most of the BULLET FAILUREs are very closely related to people who don't shoot accurately or shoot at extended ranges who would never admit that THEIR shot placemen SUCKED and THEY were a BIG FACTOR in the failures that resulted..
you really can,t ignore either ballistics, physics, or the games anatomy, when selecting the rifle that will best match your intended application, as the range increases factors like the projectiles initial velocity and ballistic shape & mass have a pronounced effect on that projectiles trajectory .
then you have to consider theres a huge difference in the expected resistance that projectile will be expected to penetrate on impact. under an ideal set of conditions ranges will be reasonably short, projectile drop from the rifles sight in zero will be minimal and the games vitals will easily be reached after minimal penetration.
but thats when reality steps in, you will rarely know the range, the position , or angle of the game from the rifleman will be different in every case, and its likely to change frequently, so having a bit of extra velocity to flatten trajectory, a bit of extra mass in the projectile to retain impact energy, and a reasonably sturdy projectile construction to control expansion certainly helps that projectile reach, penetrate and destroy the vital organs.
theres always trade-offs the larger and heavier the projectile and the faster its pushed the more recoil is potentially generated.
if you expect to have targets at over about 200 yards projectiles must be pushed to fairly high velocity (generally as far over 2000 fps as you can get) to flatten trajectory and frequently a choice is made to reduce the projectile mass and diameter to reduce recoil.
years ago I saw a game department survey made where they asked hundreds of hunters at a western BLM check point, to look out at 5 different colored flags placed at random but carefully measured distances and write down what each person estimated the distance too be from the check point,
they were handed a pen and a survey card, they were told NONE of the colored flags were at an even 100 yard multiple but that was the only info , each flag was a different, color, placed in a
different direction and at a different distance.
the survey taker pointed out each colored flag and asked them to write down their estimated range!
they tabulated the actual hunters field estimates being made on the spot, vs the carefully measure actual distances.
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the results were about what Id have expected..after decades of listening to guys claim they killed deer & elk at 400 and 500 and 600 yards.......
the vast majority were very VERY bad at estimating distances correctly past about 150 yards, some estimates that were over 70% wrong were not uncommon
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now obviously this is a bit tongue in cheek, because different areas require different equipment, and if you watch most videos or out door shows, or read most hunting magazines, you might get the idea most elk and mule deer are shot at long distance in open grass lands. While this is true in...
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