Kirk,

Sorry to hear you're irritated by my comments, but--

"There is not a person on this board that has killed more game without a 223...than I have."

Know you have hunted in Alaska a couple times, but don't know where else aside from Montana. I have taken as many as 30 big game animals in a year without a .223, and averaged close to that for a number of years from around 1995 to 2012. (Also went on up to five several-day prairie-dog/ground squirrel shoots each year during the same period--aside from shooting "burrowing rodents" locally in Montana, with rounds from various .17s on up. On one such shoot fired 600 rounds with a .22-250--and almost as many with a .22 rimfire and .223--in two days.)

Also don't know if you remember when we (and a couple other people) discussed coming back to the PD area we've shot several times in May/June in July. You said, if I remember correctly, "No! I HATE shooting in hot weather!"

Or was that your stunt double?

“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck