Years ago Eileen had the opportunity to ask a fairly well-known gun writer a pointed question. He was of the generation of rifle loonies that tended to believe in the O'Connor or Keith school, and was definitely a Keithian. He lived in the metropolitan East but often hunted in Montana, usually with a friend of ours,where we'd often join them. He usually brought a .338 Winchester Magnum or .340 Weatherby Magnum.
One year he asked me, "John, will a .270 Winchester really kill an elk?"
Eileen snorted, possibly because a little of the glass of wine she was drinking got up her nose. She'd not only killed several elk with the .270, but a bull moose, so asked, "Why do men need larger cartridges than women do to kill the same animals?"
He also once asked me if a .243 will actually kill mule deer, despite the fact that the wife on an outfitter he sometimes hunted with had killed a bunch of deer (both mule and whitetails) with her .243.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
