ORIGINAL: Chantecler111
...their purpose is to carry more energy to longer ranges, you obviously haven't figured that out yet, they also have a flatter trajectory because of their higher velocity, which you probably know little about.
Wow... I'm learning all kinds of things here. What's this trajectory business?
ORIGINAL: Chantecler111
And judging from your post, you can't shoot very good anyway
It's true, sometimes I am a lousy shot. Other times, I do quite well.
ORIGINAL: Chantecler111
Take a bull elk at 450 yards with a .223, and then talk to me about magnums being worthless.
I wouldn't shoot an elk with a .223, and I never said magnums were worthless; just overrated and not usually needed, by the majority of their owners. I know their purpose; I also know their common usage. You're getting testy for no good reason, Junior.
Here's my Magnum Anecdote: I joined a hunt club many years ago. One day, early in the season, I was out at what passed for our range confirming zero on my rifle (Savage 111F in Win .270). One of the other members - I'll call him Cletus - was sighting in his rifle. Now, he's sitting on a ATV that is in the back of his truck, on a very windy day. He shoots one round - BOOM! - and his pal with the binocs says, "You're about six inches low, about five inches to the left." Cletus adjusts... BOOM! - guy calls out - adjusts again - BOOM! and so forth. This went on for a good while. Wanting to be helpful but very aware that I was a new guy, I suggested that maybe got a better rest and adjusted for three shot groups, he might get better results. He peered at me like I'd said something stoopid and told me that .338 ammo was thirty bucks a box, he wasn't going to waste it. I said wow, that's a lot of gun. He asked what I was shooting, I told him... he sneered that if I shot one of the big bucks there with my little rifle, the deer would snort and run off! (we're talking whitetail, not T-Rex)
Well... after seeing how he sighted his rifle in, I had a good clue as to why his deer snorted and ran off after he shot them.... he MISSED! Anyhow... he was a decent fellow once you got to know him, and overlooked his magnumitis.