RE: Are we overgunned? Was Jack O'Connor right?
If O'Connor is the best gun writer of all time, it is because he was a great writer!! There are others whose experience is just as valid, for example, Warren Page, Col. T. Whelen, and or course, old Elmer Keith himself. But I agree with you, almost every kill people make on big game (in North America!!), except for perhaps the great bears, could just as well have been made with a round based on the .30/'06 (or maybe even the 8X57mm Mauser) case!! There may be a few exceptions due to extreme range, but most of us have no business gambling on such shots!! But, if I recall correctly, O'Connor once wrote that "the .300 Weatherby Magnum kills grizzly bears about like a .220 Swift kills jackrabbits". So I guess he was not totally agi'n such calibers!!
Keep yore powder dry!!
Edited by - eldeguello on 01/26/2003 09:58:01