It’s Iowa’s fault — that was my thinking also. After last spring when the Iowa think tank came up with deer-legal cartridges reg’s, I was momentarily torn asunder between the 50 BMG, the top of their list, and the almost-bottom of it, the 358 Win. The 35’s were where they wisely stopped for deer hunting.
Thankfully, we didn’t have to deal with any of those plebeian 308’s or 270’s or 30-30’s or 243’s; the 7mm-08, the 284 Win, the 257 Roberts, the 6.5’s; any of the 25’s, and others, all of which are so unworthy of deer and dangerous to boot. Safety’s sake you know — cartridges that can carry for many hundreds of yards are too dangerous in Iowa’s woodlots and river bottoms.
Thus I did find peace in the fact that the 358 Norma, the 358 STA , the big 416’s and the like, especially the 50 BMG, can blast along happily for miles. With the right angles, we could measure their reach in fractions of counties.
Iowa’s government working for Iowans. 😉
