Hunting in northern ontario?

Question

Me and my dad drew a bull tag in the moose draw. There is 5 people going with 2 bull moose tag, 3 calfs, 2 whitetail buck. I was thinking of bringing either my 270 winchester model 70. or my 300 wsm browning A-Bolt stainless hunter. I have killed about 3 bull moose and 2 cows with the 270.win so i know it will be enough but like the 300wsm for moose. I am just thinking it is a little bit of an over kill for the white tail and we are doing some coyote and fox while we are up there. Which one and what kinda of bullets should i bring

Answer 1

Go for the .270 win., In the forests of Northern Ontario your shots will be less then 100 yards (for the most part) and in my opinion a 300 WSM at that range is to much for deer. Last year my brother shot a deer with one (300 WSM) at about 60 yards and destroyed a lot of meat.

So if your hoping to bag a deer or a moose go .270, if you just want the moose go .300 wsm

Answer 2

you can load down the 300 wsm down for fox even since the cartridge is so short you can go low on powder and still have an accurate low power load and the reason you cant do that with your 270 is because the 270 is too long a cartridge and it would be too slow a bullet for even fox since it needs even more powder to ignite so you will get low velocity and it wont be that accurate but if you don't want to mess with these loads just shot the coyotes and foxes about 600 yards away and then you wont blow them up and shoot the deer out at about 350 yards so you don't blow them up and you wont wound them either so you could leave your 270 home but i would bring it as a backup gun and for the 300 wsm use the heaviest loads you can find because when hunting moose you need a deep penetrating bullet because Bullwinkle is big and when i mean big i mean huge but they are not particularly hard to knock down they are rather clumsy creatures but you should know this i mean you've hunted moose with a 270 and for the deer use around 180 grainers but get them out there so you don't blow them up and try for 150 grainers for fox and coyote but remember don't get expanding bullets for them because it will increase pelt damage even if you shoot them at around 600 yards good luck