by "you people"i mean you guys that use almost twice the rifle that is required. and what i mean by magnums is guns with so much recoil that it makes you want to flinch just looking at them. i own several cannons and i bought them, because people told me they could do all these wonderful things and were so much better than a standard cartridge and thats just not the case. in reality it just made me shoot like crap.
since when has the -06 not been powerful enough? if that will do the job, why do you guys insist on a big cannon? only in your alternate reality do magnums have such an advantage. in the real world all you can tell the difference is the recoil. you can use a -06 or you can use a .600 nitro express. but at the end of the day they both do the job, its just the -06 does it with less recoil.

95% of people at the shooting range i go to, could not hit the vitals of a big game animal at 100 yds, even if they were shooting from a bench rest. i see alot of guys shooting .300 and .338 and they cant hit anything with it. terrible groups everytime!!!!!! i have seen people get poped in the eye with their scopes, stocks splitting and getting fractures, bedding screws losening, scopes always losing their zero, and shooting so bad that it makes me laugh. all of this because of heavy recoil. sorry guys but i just dont think it is worth the extra power.

i was convinced that bigger was better, i found out the hard($$) way.