I really like the 7mm's, and i love my custom 7 express Rem.... I've harvested aLOT of game with it, and it's served me well.... BUT, i have to admit, if i was going to use a cal for a steady diet of "bigger" game (read moose) i'd pick the 30-06 every time over the 7 express/280... I don't give a crap what the load tables say!

Only proof i have, is the 25 years of hunting big animials in Alaska and another 20years + in otherstates and Canada... I reload everything and rarely buy factory ammo, and in my life when it came to guns, money was "nearly" no object, because if i wanted it i figured out how to get it! PEROID!!

So, all the proof i can offer is my years of hunting with all of the cals mentioned in this thread so far, andmany more for weeks at a time in the bush, a few months out of every year...

BTW, "If" being paid by the goverment to shoot animials makes you a pro, i've done that too so i guess ? i'm a pro???

DM