[okie john/]
You're right about the gun writers leading people astray. I once hunted Roosevelt elk in the rain forest with a guy from Idaho who showed up with a 35 Whelen. The only shot he got was around 300 yards and he passed it up. He knew the cartridge was capable of making that shot but he wasn't sure that he could make it.
Okie John [quote]
YEP. "THEY", gun writers, in the 70s-80s were responsible for my concept of 300 Mag--338 Mag being the normal or
minimum for hunting Elk.
I HAD 1 338 WM in Ruger 77 O G tanger -> Hardest Kicking Sum Buck I have EVER shot. 375 HH is tame compared. That Tanger 338 went down the road so fast it raised dust ! ! !
My 8mm RM (yep G Ws) shoots more powder and 5 grain less bullet wt. FASTER than the 338 and is pleasant compared to that.
I still have the 8 Mag. The stock is the diff.
Windfall said above ^^^ "I could shoot a close deer with a rifle that shot far, but that I couldn't shoot a far deer with a rifle that shot close".
There are NO truer words.
I have hunted swamps and other thickets and there is always open territory either going to or coming from such.
Even the Indians thru down the bow/arrow for rifles. Principle is the same.
Jerry
