Other than you are a one gun man with a bigger caliber, why would you ever feel the need to use anything bigger than a .243 Win for whitetail?
Didn't you once ask the same question, of the .25-06?
The 2nd deer I ever shot was broadside 200 yards away, and I hit her perfectly behind the shoulder. She ran about a 100 yards, zigging through the bush. I only ever found one little spot of blood, the ground was hard, and it was mostly luck that I found her. .25-06, so thereafter I stuck to the .270 & up. Years later, when I got a chrono, I discovered I was under-loading the rounds -
and the bullets were actually "varmint" bullets.
I killed a spike last year with a .223, and the deer went only about 30 yards. And I killed one with Dad's old .25-06, too. It went about the same distance.
I'm thinking of using my .25-20 on deer, this year...
