What I'm getting at is not that one should use a 223. Or that competitive shooting is the same as shooting elk. What I'm saying is that folks don't shoot big guns as well as smaller ones. Will that make a difference on an elk? It does hundreds if not thousands of times every season.
What I am saying is guys that don't shoot big guns well won't shoot small guns well either.
Those guys would wound/miss just as many elk with a 243, 25-06 or 270. They refuse to shoot.
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