Red deers won't die 150m 270 rifle.

[jones]

I've been trying to hunt red deer on the lake and shot 5 times different times, but they just run away. Are there any powerful guns?

[42]

7mm.

It's not so important how often you hit. You must use the correct weapon class and place a good shot on the lungs. Then 1 shot is enough. I use the the 7mm.

223 - red fox
243 - roe deer
7mm - red deer and fallow deer

And always use the PSG bullets

[botaya1]

If you hit them in the lungs they will die, I use the 270 and the 7 mm for red deers, for fallow deers I prefer the 270.

[Hanuman]

Yea I think the .270 is sort of like the 6.5mm, both fun to use but lack real punch at the heavier animal range.

[42]

7mm PSG bullets have 14.2% penetration power. 35 / 40.

[Hanuman]

Origineel geplaatst door jadawin32:

7mm PSG bullets have 14.2% penetration power. 35 / 40.

Yea hard to beat the 7mm. People hate on it for the one round thing but it shoots far, straight and hard.

[botaya1]

Speaking about the 270, I've got a 270 and I use 150 grains amo, and can tell for sure that at more than 180 meters it starts falling heavily, somebody knows how many grains it is the amo in the game calculated? Because the 270 in the game it seems pretty plain at 200 meters.

[DanthemanBoone]

You shouldnt even be shooting red deer at 200m in this game.. They are easy to call in so do that and take them at around 50m and you wont have any problems. If you wnt to be a long range shooter .. get a bigger gun.

[jjs82x]

Agreed with most responses.

The .270 + poly + lung shot will do it: Red deer should not run far if you string those three together. I have even taken a Red with a .243. But, yes, the 7 mm makes it much easier to get a kill on Class 5-8 with a less than perfect shot.

Don't forget that the CB70 or even the CB60 (both are in the base game) will easily take down a Red with a lung shot using the starter 420 grain arrow. The compound bows with 420 grain arrows have more penetration than any rifle in the base game, with the possible exception of the .338 (dunno, I don't own the .338 yet, and may never). I shot a fleeing bear up the rear end with a 600 grain from a CB70, and the arrow went through the length of her body, hitting about four organs, and would have exited her mouth and kept right on going, but got stopped by her jawbone.

Do you have the Red deer caller yet (probably not, if you don't have the 7 mm yet)? Or tripod DLC? I take Red deer by the dozen. My favorite shots are 5 to 20 meters with a bow, from a tripod in the middle of a need zone; but will resort to the 7 mm if they are beyond 50m and I can't call them in. IMHO the caller is not as important as the tripod or blind, but it makes it harder if you don't have any of those.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Origineel geplaatst door Dream Master:

Origineel geplaatst door jadawin32:

7mm PSG bullets have 14.2% penetration power. 35 / 40.

Yea hard to beat the 7mm. People hate on it for the one round thing but it shoots far, straight and hard.

The 7mm is indeed a very good weapon. The more I use it the more I like it, though I still prefer the Drilling, because it is more versatile and you can shoot any species with it.

Furthermore the description that tells you it´s effective range is only 150 meters is wrong, it´s a very viable sniper and the caliber of the rounds is just mean. Despite the number of the rounds stating almost the same to 7mm it feels stronger and considering how much bigger the bullets are it should be from a logical standpoint.
It´s kind of the Jack-of-all-trades, since you have to opportunity to hunt every single species with one rifle.