I can't/won't argue any of that. It is all sound. As a matter of fact, it sounds like you and I have approached things similarly. My failing has always been the desire to try and to own the oddballs and the tweeners in addition to the tried and proven. I could have saved an awful lot of money throughout my life, and would have been just as effective, had I bought a .22, .223, .243, .270/7Mag/30-06 and nothing else.

A smaller battery of rifles is not a bad thing. It sounds like you and I can both say "I have seen the elephant".

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