Birdsnest
Well-Known Member
If strictly for island deer... .243 is great. If it's one an all around gun for hunting all over B.C. you are after then .308 is a hard to beat caliber. Reduced-recoil/125gr. available for deer hunting, youth can use it easy enough with those rounds, and you can up to 180gr. for the big stuff. like an island elk LEH if you luck out on one of those. Ammo for .308 is relatively cheap compared to some other calibres and is for sale everywhere, always in stock.
A good summary to the discussion above.
I like the two 270 tho and the reaso I chose the 270 over the 243 is generaly it weights the same as a 243 for carrying in the bush so may as well have a bit more power. I will be upgrading from my savage stainless 116 to a tika t3 lite in the 270.