If you are shooting game with a machine gun at extended distances, I am given to understand that they provide superior performance.
Well said! We were sold a bill of goods, the premise that we needed sagebrush country bullets all the time, every place...when it's pretty obvious that 75% of the game meat harvested is done so in cover or broken terrain at less than 200 yards. It's ok though, it's six of one, half dozen of the other. Kinda like the demise of the poor old round noses. Cup and core round noses are good reliable bullets with decent trajectories to 300...but the market trends went with spitzers, then boat tail spitzers, then .600 bc rocket ships. Overkill when you could pretty safely say, over half the hunting population couldn't put 3 shots offhand on a 9 inch pie plate at 300.
