No, he'd never advise anybody to hunt elk with a 30-30 but he'll post it on a board where 5 million pink-arses can see it an' figur thet whitetail gun their daddy left 'em in the closet will be fine if they wanna spring for a over-the-counter tag in Colorady an' try their hand at Wapiti. Ever time a feller tells me a huntin' story an' says he "don't know how me missed that shot", I cringe thinkin' thet he probly didn't miss, jus' too ignorant to know he was unnergunned an' left a gut shot elk out there for somebody to find next year. Ever notice how the fellers with the puny calibers seem to miss a lot? Saw one ol' boy with a 243 shoot a bull, an' when the bull walked back into the trees, he declared he musta missed clean an' wanted to go git lunch afor looking for another chance. I found the bull 500 yards away an' put him down with a killin' shot from my 45-70. Lots of them fellers roamin' the hills nowadays.

BJ