That's what I was getting at in my earlier post. Go to any hunting camp in my locale and you won't see many smaller cartridges. It's been that way for 30 years...
You'll see 7mags, 300 mags, 338's and 30-06's. The 270 is about the smallest thing you'll see and those guys get jazzed about it being marginal for whitetail deer.
This is pretty much what I've been seeing from several deer leases - even since 2000 - and I began deer hunting in 1972.
Over the years I've seen some 243s, **NO 223s**, 1 - 250 Savage, 1- 25-06, NOBODY carrying a 257 Roberts, few 6mm Rems, etc. you get the idea. I'm the only hunter I know personally who owns or knows what a 6.5 Swede is. I've told and shown some people and they say " a what?".
Mostly NOW and then 270s, 30-30s, 308s, 06s, 7 Mags and 300 Mags. 1- 338 WM.
So the answer to the OP is- from posters here -
The only ones I know of/about going 'smaller' are on here, and
No they're about the same as it's been for years.
