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I think a lot of people have the wrong idea about heavy caliber rifles. I dont care if your using a 30-06 or a 338 win mag. if you hit it where it lives it will go down. theres no way that that buck hunt would have gone any different just from stepping up from an 06 to a 300 or 338 win mag. the bigger bullets dont do the killing, the shot placement does, all the bigger bullets do is make a bigger mess of your meat. there not necessary unless your hunting dangerous or thick skinned animals at close range. a 30-06 or 308 caliber rifle is all you need to kill any animal in north america. just work on bullet placement, not a bigger rifle. Brian
I don't know much about guns and loads (but I'm learning fast). My BF knows TONS about this stuff. I have a new Marlin 336 Lever Action 35 Remington. He had to cut some of the butt off and added a peep site (I love me some peep sites). I asked him what it will shoot in terms of big game (the dealer said it will take down anything in Oregon) and he said what matters more is the right bullet for the game and velocity used. He is a reloader as well as a gun restorer and showed me all the ways this Marlin can be chambered with powder and bullet combos resulting in increased distance, velocity, and accuracy. I had some cartridges filled with the Hornady soft point bullets (for accuracy as well as distance and is the only pointed bullet type you can use in the magazine chamber) in front of big game powder loads and took it for a test drive. I'm pretty sure it will kill a deer or elk because it knocked a BIG hole through the base of a live ponderosa pine tree trunk at about 300 yards. For me, it's perfect. I'm just a wee little leprechaun. For hunting, I would rather shoulder a lighter gun than lug around one that is truck big. Carrying the right bullet for the game you want at the distance you want is MUCH easier.