Right on Jordan. My thoughts, after only a single bull elk, but 60+ head of African game, is that what some consider "adequate" often times become way more than that in the hands of a good shooter with good bullets. In the past, after guiding more than 160 hunters, the biggest problem I saw was that most of them showed up over-gunned and over-scoped.
And under-practiced...
You guys have it right. I've guided and witnessed a few hunters that could shoot .300WM+ cartridges well, and a few that couldn't shoot .223- and .243-class cartridges well. But, the trends have been that most rodeos in shot placement on game have involved people obviously over-gunned, while "marginal" cartridges have done the job as well as anything else when appropriate bullets and good shot placement prevailed.
