Lol, blaming poor shooting and poor choices in bullets used in the wrong application on the cartridge. Top it all off with some "feelings" on how the 243 and 280 are better. Nice............
Seems his opinion formed its foundation decades ago when there were a few bullets that worked at 3000 fps MV, and others that didn't. Combine fragile bullets with "unknown" bullet placement, and I guess that can leave a sour taste in an inexperienced hunter's mouth that is difficult to overcome.
IME watching bullets hit animals, as long as a good bullet was used for the application and it was put in the right place, with very few exceptions animals have fallen over within 100 yards or less. The headstamp has largely been irrelevant. Putting a good bullet in the right place is the catch, and as long as the shooter isn't trying to content with wind beyond 300 yards or so, and recoil doesn't prevent good marksmanship (which is a sliding scale for most people), headstamp is mostly irrelevant there, too, for hunting purposes.
But logic and pragmatism don't seem to sell magazine articles these days...
