ORIGINAL: Catus Magnus
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 Poodleshoot cartridge, and I never said they were worthless; just overrated and not needed, by the majority of their owners. 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 sneered at me and said 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.