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Subtitle: Morons on Big Game Calibers.
Anyone read the July issue of Field & Stream? Yours truly is feeling pretty darned smug about right now! It appears that David Petzal stole my ideas that I posted on here a few weeks ago on caliber for elk/elephant/Jabba the Hut.
Mr. Petzal listed the 270 as his #2 all-around caliber (behind only the 30-06), described as a rifle for anything bigger than a prairie dog and smaller than a brown bear. His rationale - Listen up sports fans, 'cause ole Dan been tellin' yall this fer a while - is that in times past the 270 might have been a bit light to rank this highly, but with the new premium bullet designs, things have changed.
Yuk, yuk, yuk, I love to stick it to the shoulder cannon brigade. Macho men who think the size of their rifle/truck/elk bugle/whatever gives them an edge with the ladies make me snicker.
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Sinking to your level for a moment....
I'm glad you've found a gun rag writer that sets your heart a twitter-patter, there is a flavor of writer out there for every groupee.
Google his name.... I'm thinking you may wish to re-examine the qualifications of your sex idol.
Even if one were to accept the argument at 110% of face value, just one problem, most folks that are too cheap to buy a rifle proportionate to their quarry are also too cheap to buy premium ammo. For those who do actually spring for the premium ammo and fine tune with it, then it is a helpful band-aid to stick upon a needy problem. According to the billing,the "new bullets"appear toclaim to kinda provide some sort of "Viagra for your rifle".... but remember, if you leave your gun loaded for more than 4 hours, then seek the help of a professional gunsmith immediately.
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On a more rational note:
Somehow I have a hard time believing that the "new stuff" bullets has much of an edge (if any)over the Nosler Partitions and Barnes X's I have used for so long.I ownand have experience with the smallsmall cartridges and also the much bigger stuff and most of what is in between; for elk I like the results I see from cartridges 30-06 and up with "heavy for caliber" quality bullets and don't like much what I've seen down in the "just-get-by" cartridgesin the range of "270 and under" regardless what was shot in them. Even with the so called "new bullets" the velocity is the same, the weight is the same, thus the energy is the same, there is no increase in frontal impact surface, no change in Taylor KO score.
Good luck with the deer rifle Lovefest; however,methinks you excite much too easily.
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Weight + Energy= Penetration! No otherway around it. I'm sure we'llrecover those new bullets this season at the cleaning shed and will post results as they turn up.
