RE: .243 for deer
Yes. when I said 6000 I was exaggerating and I you did quote (twice) that I said "many" years ago. Which i did not.
Not the point though.
I am saying that it is possible that some people are looking towards the smaller recoiling, lighter bullet, flat shooting guns so they can get into the long range killing game without having toget beat up by the biigger caliber guns