Originally Posted by Mule Deer
Might also mention something Finn Aagaard wrote years ago in an article titled "Guns of the Settlers," about his first several decades of hunting in Kenya........

His last sentence reads: “Even today, as it always has been, it is not the rifle or its cartridge that matters so much, but rather the skill and knowledge of the rifleman-hunter who is using it.”

A quick recollection (does not consider other deer sized critters)

I have killed deer with....

Tac-20
243 Win
25-06 Rrem
257 Wby
6.5 x 55
260 Rem
26 Nosler
270 Win
270 WSM
6.8 Western
7mm-08
280 Rem
7 mag
7 STW
30 WCF
308 Win
30-06 Srpingfiled
300 H&H
300 Win Mag
300 RUM
325 WSM
338 RUM
35 Whelen
375 H&H
45-70

I would tend to agree with FA.

ya!

GWB

Last edited by geedubya; 12/25/23.

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