N O, one word in your post -- "factory" -- bogs things down. For my own hunting and for other hunters totally liberated from dependence on factory fodder, I'd choose differently. If all factory loads were equally readily available, I'd choose differently. But life as she is and things as they are box me into a corner that wouldn't otherwise be my first choice. With ALL THINGS CONSIDERED AS THEY ARE, there's only one choice -- ONE cartridge that can do it all, over the entire range of game from hog and deer to elk and grizzly:
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<br>the .30-06
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<br>-- with good 180- to 220-grain bullets and a 1x fixed-power scope, with a real rifleman-hunter manning the sight picture and trigger pull
