Where I deer hunt, probably 90% of hunting can be done with a .30/30, thus, the WSMs never really caught on up there.
I TRY to plant myself where I can get shots out to 300 yards, but sometimes even that's a struggle. My .270s do fine at that distance. And further, if I want.
Then again, that's northern Missouri, which is more open than this part of Kentucky, where a slug shotgun would work as well as anything else.
There just isn't a need, really, for a long-range rifle here, UNLESS YOU WANT ONE, of course.
In all my range time, I've never ran into anyone who had one, but I did find a box of empty cases at a range once. I brought it home as a curiosity, but it never got my blood up enough to buy one.
,300 WSM, ho hum.
