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LAST EDITED ON Mar-21-04 AT 08:24AM (MST)[p]I know this sounds like a whine, but I hate hearing about guys that try and take shots out past about 350 yards, and argue about the merits of guns capable of killing at thoe ranges.
I always ask myself "just how many practice shots have you taken at those ranges? Based on experience and not a magazine article or reloading book, do you know how your bullet tracks with gravity and wind on it?" I bet most of the time the answer is No.
Precious few of us even live in an area where you can realistically burn up a few hundred rounds each summer under hunting conditions at long ranges.
This leads me to conclude on the age old argument about hunting cartridges that any load with the ballistics of a 165 grain 30-06 at 2800 to 3000 fps is just fine for the vast majority of shooters on North American game, provided they keep their shots within ranges that they have practiced within the previous year.
Its kind of like golfing. Is it really going to do me that much good to have a driver like Tiger Woods if I banana hook my ball into the next fairway? I can par or bogey way more holes with a 7 iron and a putter.
Anyway thats my beef. Rebuttal?
I always ask myself "just how many practice shots have you taken at those ranges? Based on experience and not a magazine article or reloading book, do you know how your bullet tracks with gravity and wind on it?" I bet most of the time the answer is No.
Precious few of us even live in an area where you can realistically burn up a few hundred rounds each summer under hunting conditions at long ranges.
This leads me to conclude on the age old argument about hunting cartridges that any load with the ballistics of a 165 grain 30-06 at 2800 to 3000 fps is just fine for the vast majority of shooters on North American game, provided they keep their shots within ranges that they have practiced within the previous year.
Its kind of like golfing. Is it really going to do me that much good to have a driver like Tiger Woods if I banana hook my ball into the next fairway? I can par or bogey way more holes with a 7 iron and a putter.
Anyway thats my beef. Rebuttal?