Any gun you have in your hands is better than any gun in the safe.

Likewise, the gun you have in your safe is better than the one in the store. The one in the store is better than the one on the magazine page.

If you only have one gun, and think of yourself as a *hunter* rather than a killer, a shooter, a butcher or a dude...you can humanely harvest many animals. It is about passing up the marginal shot. The ethical hunter will pass up more shots with a .243 than he/she would with a 30-06 when hunting 'stretch' targets.

Be careful about drinking the velocity koolaid. For a given bullet, more velocity almost always means less penetration. That is counter-intuitive. Vanilla cup-n-core bullets are usually pretty happy with an impact velocity of 2400fps. Ethical hunting with vanilla bullets means you might have to pass up shots that are too close if you are launching the pill at 3000fps.

Generally, free advice is worth between 1 and 5 times what you paid for it. This advise was freely given.

I am a conservative with a lowercase "c".