RE: The Ideal Deer Cartridge
Everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion but I do not share the opinions expressed in the article.Firstly neithera .264" bullet nor a 150grain bulletis required to kill any deer under any conditions.A 257 roberts or a 25-06 will kill any deer that walks.Secondly the author is assuming a range of 200 yards while the truth is thatsome hunting conditions will present significantly farther shots that make the 30-30 and 32 special very poor choices.He makes an issue of the lever action being ambidexterous appear to be an advantage yet how many people do know that shoot of both shoulders?He claims that a lever action shooting cartridges such as the 30-30 or 300 savage is so comfortable to shoot.Yes these cartridges do produce less actual recoil than many others but the steel buttplates and theshape of many lever actions actually pass more felt recoil on to the shooter than a bolt actionchambered in 257 roberts or 25-06.As I said previously,everyone is entitled to their opinion,but I simply find too many faults in the article to share theauthors opinions.