Thanks for the info. and opinions. My recent Caribou trip got me thinking about the new gun. My hunting buddy and I were the only ones using the good ole .06 The other 10 hunters in camp were using 270wsm,257Weatherby mag, 7mmstw, 300WM, 7mm mag, 7mm wsm and others I can't recall and hadn't heard of. The conversation alwayscentered around which caliber hit the hardest and had the flattest trajectory. Some of the fellas in camp hadhunted Elk, Antelope and the like out west. The general consensus was that the .06 was marginal on getting the job done. I certainly had no trouble dropping Caribou with the .06 I don't want to show up for the hunt of a lifetime andbe under "gunned" (if that's a word).