I think that your lack of personal experience may have contributed to your short-sighted negative bias toward the 257 Roberts.
As a dual-purpose cartridge that bridges the gap between pure varmint cartirdges and pure medium game cartridges (if such a beast actually exists), it is (IMO) as good as any.
What are the cartridges that are, IYO, "best" at anything? I'd like to see that list if it is based on in-depth personal experience, rather than pure speculation.
Jeff
PS - Being a numbers guy, I re-keyed the data in Lacy's book into an EXCEL file and came up with these fun facts about the Remington 722:
Total production = 117,595
222 production = 55,700 (47.37%)
257 production = 20,855 (17.73%)
300 production = 16,756 (14.25%)
244 production = 12,140 (10.32%)
308 production = 6,155 (05.25%)
222Mproduction = 3,803 (03.23%)
243 production = 2,185 (01.86%)
