20 Best Hunting Caliber For 300 Yards (2022 Updated)

I bought my gun about two months ago off of the website and as soon as I clicked purchase I regretted my decision because I forgot to add the laser. To this day I haven’t purchased the laser (but I will be soon).

But it’s funny the amount of friends that laugh at me when I pull this out and go hunting they just really don’t know the enjoyment from this thing until you actually get it out and go hunting a fly.

I got really frustrated the first week of using it because I wanted instant results. Turns out flies like to do one thing and that’s fly. I didn’t realize that I would need to be tracking these beasts so that I could annihilate them all.

Honestly sometimes you wait a long time for that fly to come back around but when he lands it’s a wrap. This is the best thing that’s come into my life recently and you know what it kills some time and it’s definitely a piece to talk about with people.

But I will say I get some funny looks when I tell them that it shoots table salt. Thank you so much for this thing and I’ll have one till I die.

I cook outside probably 3-4 times a week and for the past year the Bug-A-Salt 2. 5 has been my most trusted companion while cooking. I am sad to say she has shot her last fly though; but what a glorious life she’s had! I tried to do the math, and to the best that I can figure, she’s probably been fired a little over 10,000 times; but alas, she has lost her will to fight.

Which is why I’m here buying the 3. 0!.

I originally bought this as a gift for my husband, what I didn’t anticipate was this little item turning two grown men (my husband and my 21 y/o son) into wanna be Rambos stalking anything with wings.

I had to hide the salt after they went to get revenge on the hornets in our backyard. Btw. it does kill those little demon spawn, and flies don’t have a chance here. This is well-made, despite a little box damage the Bug-A-Salt was intact and works perfectly.

I anticipate buying another one as even grown men have trouble sharing.

My go to call for years was the primos rubberneck. The biggest downfall of that call was that it split in half easily (to access the internals to modify the frequency [young buck, Astros bleat. ]). To my delight, the internals on the buck roar are identical.

How it separates is more robust. You can produce more volume through the extended tube and it’s very easy to dial it way down and almost completely mute it as well. And there’s the addition of a snort wheeze.

Excellent call. Does and bucks alike respond to this. Best you can get.

This is my first deer call. I am in my 30s and have hunted the last three years and never shot a deer. Opening day 2019 I made three quiet, less than a second, grunts on the mature buck setting about 20 min before sunrise.

Out of nowhere and a few minutes later, I see a deer in the field eating. I made a quiet short grunt and then a more aggressive longer grunt. Deer looks up and it’s a buck. End up taking a shot and harvesting my first deer, an 8 pointer.

I am not an experienced hunter and don’t leave reviews for products I buy, but I wanted to here because I feel the grunt helped me and this was the call I used. Thanks, Primos for making my hunt a success!.

I bought the X-Sight Pro 4K 5-20 scope and love it so far. I purchased the ABL 1000 and haven’t fired a round to check the accuracy yet but it was a breeze to pair and zero in. I will pinpoint zero it at the range when I have time.

The one shot zero seems to be accurate as I’ve been doing that with regular scope for 25 years now and am always right on with the second shot. The only thing I’ve noticed is after pairing the scope with the ABL I now turn on my app on my phone and waited a couple minutes but the video didn’t show up.

But I had a message from my phone asking if I wanted to use my cellular connection and I clicked on it and think that’s why it wasn’t working. I have a iPad that has may try and use exclusively for the scope.

Then I will still be able to use my phone when needed.

I bought an ATN Thor and after 2 months of fooling with it to try and get it to work correctly, it doesn’t and eats batterys if I don’t remove them each time. I thought I would try a new X Sight 5X20 since they are new and surely will work right.

I bought the scope, the ABL and the upgraded $300 light and got them all mounted and firmware updated. Sighted the scope and it worked right except it locked up and no buttons would work. Per advise we tried updating firmware again and took it out again the next week.

I paired the ABL, zeroed it and put all ballistic info in the scope and started sighting it in. After getting it almost right the scope showed an ERR message up top and then said target unreachable. I was holding it on a target at 100yds.

It wouldn’t show yardage and continued to pop up TARGET UNREACHABLE on the screen. The reticle disappears when this happens so after pushing the menu button 8-10 times in a row to get the message off, then I have no reticle.

Bottom line – I have a $1700 Thor 4 from a year and a half ago thet’s brand new and a brand new X-Sight 5X20 with ALL the adds that totals $1500 and neither will work. Anyone want to buy this stuff cheap?.

Don’t know how it worked. Mounted it on by X-Sight 4K Pro per Option 1. Scope broke in half on second shot. Called tech support and they said the gun had “dirty recoil” and the scope could not handle it.

No guarantees it would if repaired. I returned the scope, laser and Xtrac for a full refund. Their support was very good and the refund prompt. I really wish is would have worked. I spent a long time researching the purchae.

This arrived in a box 4 times the size of the item and the item itself was masking taped close. It looked like at some point someone has taken the plastic covering off the arrows, so Cabela’s put a single, large, half placed piece of masking tape to secure it back in place.

It already fell off by the time it arrived to us, pulling off the cardboard design on the item. This is the 2nd shipping fail that we received on the same order.

Waited 9 years for an elk tag in Wyoming, after two day’s the reed stretched out and became increasingly more difficult to produce a call. I think a latex glove and a rubber band over a plastic tube would work better than this call.

Very disappointed.

This is an easy to use bugle with very little practice. In fact, sometimes its hard to “back off” and sound less intimidating! It just sounds so good you want to make it scream like the herd bull, but that’s not always the best approach when chasing elk.

In comparison to the Primos Hoochie Mama squeeze call this mouth call is half as good. The squeeze call is much better because it makes the exact same sound every time and it sounds perfect and is just as loud as the mouth call.

I thought if I bought the mouth call it would be better because it would allow me to use both hands to shoot my bow but you need to hold the mouth call with your hand. If you try to hold the call in your mouth without using your hand it will not sound right.

Also it is impossible to wear a headmask while using a mouth call. I plan to use the squeeze call next time.

I’ve used this call for a couple seasons now since it came out, and I absolutely love this call! By far the best call I have in my pack! last season I started calling in this meadow, up in this “bowl” on the mountain.

Within seconds I had 5 screaming bulls literally racing one another as to who could get to me the fastest! Finally a decent 5×5 came blitzing through the trees and gave my brother-in-law a 15 yard shot!.

We just returned from an unbelievable trip out west. My buddy who is much more experienced than I in the elk woods some how forgot his dearest cow calls. I purchased the Imaka Da BullCrazy about a month before our trip.

Since he is a much better caller than I, I allowed him to use this call. He practiced less than five minutes, and we headed out. He worked the first bull within 100 yards until I spooked a calf at less than 10 yards.

It spooked some cows and the show was over. In less than 10 minutes, we were working another bull. I am not sure whether he called the bull or the cows, but the cows came through and the bull was screaming in the rear.

He came through at 50 yards and I managed a good release. A couple of days later he called another bull in at ten yards for another person. I was happy with the call, but he may have been happier. Check the other reviews for the call I was using.

works much better than a deer grunt call. makes a more realistic hog sounds. I use it primarily to calm spooked hogs when I jump them up,but I have also called hogs in with it. I have tried several other brands but this one is the best I have found.

I couldn’t get my Power Bugle to perform to my satisfaction until I turned it upside down. I held it in direct opposition to the published instructions provided by E. L. K. Inc. My upper lip rested on the band and directed the airflow across the now upward facing opening.

The reversed bill angle made me feel like I was playing a saxophone, but man does it wail! Great call!.

I’ve taken a dozen or more bulls with more than half of them I have called in with the Power Bugle. There is nothing more exciting than getting a bull fired up, ripping trees out of the ground because he thinks your another bull moving in on his turf.

The Power Bugle has there with me during all of these adventures. I just bought another one for my son. Love it! Randy.

I purchased this year and did not use it in the timber. I bow hunted for elk and ended up just bugling with a cow diaphragm. Bugled in 7 legal bulls, one close enough for a shot, got him. After listening to both bugles, the diaphragm and this bugle on video.

This bugle has a much better sound. The only reason I didn’t use it was because I didn’t have room in my hip pack and I didn’t want it around me bow hunting. Sounds good though. Other reviews mentioned issues with the rubber band falling off or deteriorating so I bought extras of these.

Look forward to putting it to work in the future.

this is a good design for both open reed and closed reed in one. makes great rabbit distress sounds and great injured yote sound. the o-ring design is great too. no need for multiple calls hanging around your neck.

and there’s two holes for a lanyard so you don’t lose either piece. the first time i used this was on a yote hunt and called in a bobcat. the only thing with this call is condensation that builds up in cold temps, then gets in the reed, so you have to take it apart and dry it out.

other than that, it’s a good piece and worth the buy.

I purchased this call a few weeks back and got out hunting at my folks place this past weekend. Called in a great big coyote in the first 45 minutes with the jackrabbit distress but missed my shot at 100 yards!!! Went back out in the evening and had a ton of magpies coming in close and then a great big Goshawk landed on a fence post 10 feet from me.

It sat and watched me for about 5 minutes. Amazing!!! Great little call but can freeze up at times.

This call is not very loud. The sound will break down if you blow too hard. Fawn distress sound is good. Disapointed in the Ki-Yi sound. Primos Lil dog does a better job if you’re used to open reed calls.

Also, it stop working when it’s gets wet inside (condensation) after a few calls or if it’s cold. Lohman Circe cotton tail distress call works great and loud.

This is the perfect starter combo! The All-Star 2. 0 is super quick to learn & the Temptress is even easier! use the Bully Bull Extreme to amplify the sound! It will take some practice to master, but its a quick learn! Happy Hunting!.

Got this tube as a Christmas present last year and finally got to use it this fall. Closed the deal opening day and called in another for a friend the next day. This tube has great volume and sound. It really gets out there without being over the top.

I used a smaller tube before this one and will never go back. The sound difference is not only very noticeable to me, but the elk as well.

Bought this last week for an elk hunt I was helping with this weekend. The double reed call with the tube was friggin dynamite! I had 5 or so bulls responding to me at the same time. I kept them bugling long enough for my buddy’s son to get in there and kill a nice bull with a muzzleloader.

Well worth the cost!.

So we were at our second stand of the day with this bad boy hunting for Coyotes. We had seen some sheep farmers and so talked to them and they said they heard some probably two small hills over, about 2 ish miles walk.

So we walked all the way around and start calling. Did the rabbit for a while and the coyote calls for a hot second. After about 40 mins, my brother and I here some foot prints behind us and some low huffing.

I work for the US Forest Service and have heard my fair share of huffing from animals and my first thought was that there was a bear behind us. Well our hearts kinda dropped as we heard is give a loud deep grunt.

So I slowly set down my. 223 and took off my. 44 mag from my side holster, slowly turned around, to see walking directly in-between my brother and I, straight towards our current coyote howls from this machine, a GIANT, easily 250+ lbs white sheep dog.

He ran straight over to the call, really confused why there were no coyotes, and then came and sat next to me under the juniper tree I was under. So. Moral of the story, have called in a coyote yet, most likely cause it’s not the best of times to do so right now, April, but man does this call work.

We were easily 2 miles away, and though this box doesn’t make the loudest noises, if you can get the echo off hill walls, you are set. Sounds are hyper realistic and anything and everything will come.

5/5 in my book and I am looking forward to finding some coyotes soon with it.

Bought the icotec gc320 unit a little over a month ago and so far its worked great! Have used the call at least a dozen times and called in and shot 6 coyotes so far. Seems to be very durable and compact, fits nicely into my backpack.

The decoy works great and keeps the coyotes attention on it. The sound is clear and is more then loud enough to call anything in within a mile on a calm day. The one thing that I’m not a fan of and I’ve read this a lot is the fact that the remote is super sensitive.

It’s happened a few times where I’ve set up the call and I’m walking back to where I’m gonna sit and some how bumped the remote and the call starts going off before I’m ready! Other then that the call works great.

Says right on the box BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED so be sure to pick up batteries before u get home with it!.

This is a good quality binoculars build with a modern design with over all excellent package. I did try in person multiple binoculars with in the price range 200-300 before tax and this was the best overall binoculars.

Other brands were not able to stack up when it comes to construction and optical quality for this price. Optically in between the 3 models in the series this was the best. The color was true to life, contrast was excellent and it had chromatic abberation.

The 10×42 was good but it looked a bit dark when side by side with 8×42 and the 10×50 showed some chromatic abberation. One thing regarding buying a binoculars are like shoes unless you try them on you don’t know how it will fit.

So don’t take my word for it and go to the store and try them on one by one. If they don’t fit or you get black shadows they will not work for you.

I bought it for a trip for wildlife viewing. Online reviews were all very good. The image quality is quite poor in my opinion. There is only minimal peripheral distortion but there is way too much chromatic aberration.

I had my Nikon M7 Monarch 8×42 at the same time and after viewing through the Vortex a couple of times and the Nikon right after, I put them down for good. The focus wheel is also somewhat coarse and difficult to adjust with one finger precisely (again I’m spoilt by the super smooth Nikons).

Yes, it is a relatively cheap bino for what it offers, I got it over the Diamondback version as that had so so reviews, but for me, I need crisp images without the distracting color fringing. Would be spending more and get a Nikon M5 instead.

I have already returned the Vortex thanks to an excellent return policy by B&H.

I bought the Crossfire HD 8X42 binoculars about a week ago and I’m pretty impressed overall. For one thing they compare pretty well optically in clarity and depth of field with my Cabela’s Intensity 8X42 binocs, which themselves are a very good buy for the money.

One con of the Crossfire is that the eyecup adjustment doesn’t stay in place very well, especially when using the eyepiece dustcaps. The pupil distance also doesn’t adjust quite narrow enough for my eyes but with the right eyecup adjustment it’s still comfortable.

The exit pupil is nothing short of massive which gives the impression it will allow lots of light through and take advantage of your dilated pupils when you’re in low light. The eyecup adjustment range is outstanding and allows just the right eye relief no matter what glasses you wear or if you don’t wear eyeglasses.

The lens covers are durable and very effective for keeping the lenses clean when you’re not looking through them. The shoulder strap is outstanding and makes the optics feel lighter than they actually are, especially when hiking off trail when it’s rough.

I’ve not tried the shoulder harness included with the carry case because it makes it very difficult to change or share binoculars. The carry case is outstanding however and gives lots of peace of mind when not using them.

I would say you could do a lot worse for the money with these binoculars, especially if you are on a budget like me. The warranty is also outstanding. I will not hesitate to take them hunting or birding, two very optic intensive hobbies.

The Dogg Catcher 2 is an upgrade from the original but still has a “recorded” tone to the sounds. In an open area where you can see the coyotes a ways out with binoculars, they will look in the direction of the call, but have a tendency to be quite wary.

At that point I will stop the electric caller and coax them closer with a good quality hand caller. The different range of sounds available cover just about any scenario. The batteries (lithium in the cold temps) last a long time, and the remote (lithium batteries also) has a dependable range of 50-60 yards.

It is lightweight if packing in on foot, and the price is reasonable. A major drawback is that it has no plug in for your decoys. My fault that I didn’t catch that when I ordered it.

I took a chance and bought this although it seemed a little too cheap to be really useful. Well, it seems you don’t have to spend a lot to get a good electronic call. This one is solidly built, (it has some heft to it) and pretty loud.

I have impaired hearing (at least that’s what my wife tells me). I set this up 100 yards from my blind facing away from me, and I could hear it very plainly. even the mouse squeeks. The jackrabbit and cottontails distress calls, along with the fawn, were quite loud and no doubt carried for a distance.

The Remote was responsive and also worked well. I was testing this mid-day with a out door temp of 30C with a oncoming thunderstorm so I really wasn’t expecting a lot of dogs to show up, but it did get a number of callbacks, and there is no reason to believe it would not work well under better circumstances.

So, if your looking for a in expensive electronic call, this one will probably fit the bill. I left mine at my Son-in-Laws farm so he can use it when it’s not pouring rain and stifling hot. He will probably have better luck than I.

Works great. A good addition to my coyote calling. Quality product that is easy to use. Super low price. Thanks

It was not even packed !!! In envelope broken didnt even open the package… can tell its broken !!!!!! Wanted it for turkey season !