ORIGINAL: KEM

I am an engineer and spend way to much time as it appears many others do on BC, speed .......ETC, ETC. The truth is whatever gets the job done gets it done. I grew up in Northern Saskatchewan shooting what are the biggest deer around and used a 243 to knock down more trophies in my youth than most people can dream of. I never needed a magnum. I found the animal and put one in the bread basket and down he went. NO muss NO fuss.

I now live in North Dakota and listen to tons of people talking about needing 338's and 300 win mags etc to get moose and elk. Yes these will kill em dead at range XXX and messign with speeds and BC.......... make them "better" in some ways but what they really do is help that poor or unlucky hunter succeed when he makes a bad shot. But do you need that extra power ........ NO. What I consider my hunting father, the guy who taught me everything has liver his whole life in the great white north and takes a nice moose every year with .............. wait for it ............ a 30-30.

So argue all you want about specs and coefficient but remember there is no one gun best suited for any purpose and dead is dead. A chuck hit with a 22-250 is just as dead as one hit with a 338! Its only when you stretch the limit of your ability that the gun can help make up for poor judgment.

Oh to those with the inevitable "Its unethethical to use such a small gun on such big game" I say this. Its not unethical to use a weapon thats of legal caliber. It unethical totake poor shots!