ORIGINAL: buckstalker1187

All of you guys bring up very good points in my opinion....and I also have thought the same things.

This is one of the reasons that makes me wonder why people will take very long shots with yet another famous 30 caliber ( 300 win mag)

In other words, if a 30-30 has slightly less than enough energy to kill deer at 200 yards. It would seem that a 300 win mag would have far far less energy than what is needed to kill elk at 700 yards.

I just wonder if the guys that wont take 150 yard shots at deer with a 30-30would take 700 yard shots at an elk with their 300 win mags ?

Alot of hunters that I know personally always nock the 30-30 and 30-06. I wonder why some people think that their magnums are limitless to the distance that they can take game at. (I know one guy that claims he would shoot a deer at 1.5 miles away with his 7mm ultra mag.) In my opinion he is stupid thinking that there would be enough energy left to even kill a deer at 1.5 miles away.