“300 rum”

The author's life-long dreams of hunting elk in the Rocky Mountains can finally come true with the Weatherby Back Country by his side.

Every now and then a new bullet comes along that redefines what we think we know about hunting projectiles.

High-country hunters need topnotch equipment—but as little as possible.

The myriad selection of rifle cartridges today has a metric ton of overlap, duplication, and some downright silly designs. Some of these designs boast wonderful claims, but not all of them measure up. In order to be overrated, you have to be rated at all, so let’s leave some of the more obscure designs off the menu.

Here are five cool wildcats that ammunition aficionado Philip Massaro has come across in his years as a gun writer.

Just days before the annual NASGW showcase, Hornady has rolled out its new-for-2016 product announcements. Chief among them, as far as hunters are concerned, is the upcoming Hornady Precision Hunter line.

Pushing a 180-grain AccuBond bullet at 3200 fps and a 210-grain AccuBond Long Range with an extremely high ballistic coefficient at 3000 fps, the new 30 Nosler is clearly aimed at elk, moose, big bears, large African antelope and any big game at extreme range.

There are many candidates that fit the bill, but we asked our writer to pick just one, the one, that will best serve any long-range situation.

If you like having the biggest, largest and fastest of the .300 Magnums, the .300 RUM is certainly among the top of the heap. While not as efficient or cuddly as some of the milder cartridges, it will certainly put an exclamation point on the end of your hunting sentence.