ORIGINAL: Pavomesa
ORIGINAL: CommonSense
Geez, what is so wrong with using a .270 or 30-06 to hunt deer with? are people THAT recoil sensitive?
It's got about as much to do with recoil as driving a green car instead of a white car has to do with one's taste in automobiles. I hunt with 270 and have used 30/06 for more years than I can remember. They work fine. But I've also uses 222, 223 and once a 222 Rem Mag. All three of them killed like the hammer of Thor. And we are talking NM mule deer, not their smaller cousins in Texas.
What these smaller rifles won't do is work on an ass end shot and they may get a bit "ify" beyond 200 yards on mule deer sized game. I've got a feeling that the folks criticizing the hotrod .224 caliber rifles have never hunted anything with them. Anyone who has knows for sure they work with deadly regularity on any properly hit deer.
Some of you "experts" might like to read P.O. Ackley's account on hunting Arizona mules with the .17 calibers before spouting off how a .223 won't work on deer. I've yet to see my first mule deer shot and lost by such a rifle.
My my, wake up on the wrong side of the bed?