Old Roy saw a whole buncha you "special" folks coming,IMHO.
Once I got my .338 tweaked and wrung out, I found that a box of cartridges (I handload) lasts for 4 or 5 years, mostly. An ideal year goes like this: take gun out of storage, check screws, run a patch down the bbl. Fire once for POA check. Fire a second time to drop moose, a third time for an insurance shot from a few yards out. Clean rifle, put away until next year. In a less than ideal year, I fire it only once.... or a half dozen times. Unless I've changed loads which need tweaking. I use it only for moose hunting, tho my '06 and several other calibers have killed as many, and as well. Mostly I carry it for moose hunting for bubious comfort, as there are some other big hairy, 1,000 lb critters out there...
Actually, I haven't fired the thing in several years, since I moved up here where there are more caribou than moose.
The .260 and '06 don't get much more of a workout either on targets, or even on caribou, per animal... I know where and how they shoot, too. It doesn't take mucho bench-rest rounds out the bbl. once those two items are determined to kill game at all reasonable ranges.. IF the longer range is known, or it's inside 300 yards.
