I am not buying they are perfect for big game hunting.
And nobody is saying they are.
Most are stating they work fine and the real naysayers have never even pulled the trigger on a deer while using a .22 caliber. Almost the same on the .24 calibers.
Those of us that have killed with them get to see how well they can work.
I grew up around a bunch of guys with running hounds and they ran far more coyotes than they did hunting deer. A fast 22, 243 or 6mm was the norm for those guys to shoot running coyotes in front of the hounds. Not enough $$ for them to have multiple rifles so they used their rigs as a dual purpose gun. I saw early on how fast deer died when shot with a hot .22 or a 243/ 6mm. Deer died about the same when shot in the same spots.
A big gun around those guys was a 25-06. Talk about thinking you were looking at a magnum sized round.
I was dumb enough at about 7 or 8 I thought the 6mm Remington was just a tick below the 7mm Mag. It was a real power house you know.
