The west is a lot more varied than the stereotypes suggest. It's not all mule deer and antelope in open country. Yeah, we have Colorado wheat fields, but we also have west coast temperate rain forest, sage, pine forests ... each lending itself to a particular type of gun, but also a lot of "edge" between different kinds of cover where a less specialized gun is "better" because it covers more bases well enough rather than doing one thing best.
I suspect the east is much the same.
What I see, more than east vs west, is differences over time.
Tom
