Imagine you're high on a wind-swept ridge in Wyoming or Idaho, hunkered under a

pinion tree with your 12-year-old. It's his or her first hunt, and you're

watching the sagebrush flats below for a nice buck when, much to your surprise, a big lone wolf

trots across a distant flat and lays down on a small rise in the sunshine.

You've both got wolf tags, and your focus immediately shifts.

Mulder? What mule deer?

You've got a legitimate chance of a wolf, something few hunters will ever have.

Lying brome beneath the juniper you range the wolf at nearly 600 yards while your

kid gets steady on the bipod and finds the wolf in the crosshairs. So here's where we go

into a rhetorical flashback. Your son or daughter is small-boned and slender and in order

to avoid making your kid recoil shy, you opted to set up a super accurate light rifle chambered for a mild kicking cartridge.

For deer to 400 yards and predators as far as you care to shoot,

would you rather have a 243 Winchester or a 6m. Creadmore. That's our topic of the day, folks. We're going to take a deep dive

into the pros and cons of our two most popular crossover deer slash predator cartridges and see if we can define which is best.

First though, let's go to our upfront Q&A section.

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Now this question was sent in by a listener we'll call Mike via email.

Mike had an interesting question. He wrote,

Hi Joseph, I'm thinking of buying a used

Remington 700 in 375 H&H.

It has a Boyd's wood laminate stock. It was manufactured in 2020.

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