RE: Which gun for deer?
Use that 300 Weatherby on half a dozen deer under normal circumstances and then offer to show Frizzler what overkill looks like. Try shooting that 300 out of a tree stand and that half circle over your eye might look like overkill to you but not Frizzler. Sure if you only have to take dead broadside shots and keep them well behind the shoulder you won't lose any meat. With standard bullets like the Hornady bullets used in the factory loads, especially the 150's you will grind up and bloodshot some meat sooner or later in a big way. When I lived in Washington state we loaded our 30-06's down to 300 savage levels or used 30-30's with perfect results. Get off into the short pines or that vine maple with that 300 Weatherby and I gaurantee you will tear up an unexceptable amout of good eatin venison.
Edited by - rickt300 on 10/25/2002 22:37:15