Duffy,

This wasn' t a question of the best round for me, but just an open-ended question to get some opinions. I find that around the rest of the country (as opposed to the northern 2/3 of MI), many have very specific reason they use their favorite deer round. Up hear, it' s go and buy the biggest gun you can handle (30-06 to .300 Win Mag), and go hunt, without any though to what may the best for the given situation. It' s all about opinoins, and I like hearing them. That .264 sounds like a great one though.

I also enjoy my dad' s 25-06. Fun to shoot, flat trajectory, and can have a wide range of users. In fact, if you ask my 7 year old nephew his favorite, it would be the 25-06, as he harvest his first deer with it this year in an AL hunt during January(when he was 6!).

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan