I believed you.
Your thoughtful posts helped convince me to buy three NOS rifles (Two Rugers M77's and a M70 XTR Featherweight) in 257 Roberts over the last few weeks. Sold my R600 and R660, both in 6.5RM to finance the deal.
Before that particular thread and your line of reasoning ( AS WELL AS A FEW OTHERS ), I was really thinking I should go ahead and buy a 6.5x55 for the "extra" juice on the 120gr slugs. I did not want to be just "good or adequate" on larger deer at ranges and different angles to 300yds or so. A 115gr at 3000 or a 120gr at 2900 will do it easliy.
I usually hunted with a R600 in 6.5RM and there was absolutely NO question of power at 300yds, but occasionally I got shots at 50 to 70 yds and there was A LOT of meat destruction.
I would often think, standing there in the woods of Idaho, I really should find a cartridge that pushes a 120gr bullet around 2900fps or so. Of course I thought of the Bob and the Swede, just took me 5 years to move everything around a little.
Can't wait to hunt this November. Thanks.
Lj
