It's really hard to argue with a personal decision made with good reason.
With that said, however, there is enough shared experience to support the comparable killing ability of lots of non magnum cartridges. I recently had to defend my camp from an Alaskan mountain grizzly with a 130 ttsx from a 308, and I am happy to report that he couldn't have died any sooner unless shot in the head. There are just so many variables that do into turning out the lights on a large animal, that the only way to go wrong is to get stuck on just one of them.
Dang, I call 30 cals: lucky charms. Work when you want them to, sometimes don't work when you least expect it. Lucky charms:
Remember few years back when Doug shot Eric with a 180 grain core lokt fired from a 30-06?? Hit him in chest? Ole Eric (never new middle aged men from the city were that tough), hollars down to doug after taking a semi-center mass shot: "You hit me!"
Ole eric still alive.
30 cal: lucky charms!
