Plus, I realized a couple years ago that MOST hunters develop their preferences (whether in cartridges, rifles, scopes, etc) between age 30 and 40. After that they never change much, mostly because those "worked" for them--and generally their fathers, and perhaps grandfathers.
Yet centerfire cartridge rifles and sights have been evolving for around 150 years. Which means that all those hunters who believe "their" generation of perfect hunting rifles is absolute perfection are essentially saying one 20-30 year period is not only everything anybody "needs" but anybody who might prefer anything else (even say, a 94 Winchester .30-30 rather than a .45-70 trapdoor Springfield) is FOS.
Personally, having owned and hunted with a wide variety of rifles I appreciate all of them.
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