ORIGINAL: DM
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
Your experience is fine, there is nothing
wrongwith the '06,but you can't deny the physics.
X mass bullet going
X fps^2 makes
X amount of energy.
Velocity is more important than physics which is why
we don't keep designing larger bullets, we design ways to push the
bullets we use faster.
BTW: "If" you do something for a living and you're good at it then I think you can be considered a "professional" and I'm not one to brag but it seems like "experience" goes alot further around here than "logic" so I guess I can pull the experience card too.
Funny how experience only seems to matter when
other people use it as some kind of proof, but when
I do all the sudden being a "pro" doesn't mean a thing! Make up your mind you can't have it both ways! Oh darn there's that silly logic thing again! Keeps getting in the way....