Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
Not true. Your two examples are hardly representative of the 40 million hunters in the US. I know at least 10 hunters who had to back to smaller calibers, because they started to develop a flinch from magnums.
Magnums aren't needed. If you can't kill with a 30-06. You're doing something wrong.
You missed the whole point of my post. It has nothing to do with a caliber being a "magnum". People throw that phrase around like global warming. Shooting more gun then they are accustomed to, or a gun not fitted for them properly, causes flinching. Shooting mangums has nothing to do with it.
Besides, if you need an '06 to kill it, then you must be doing something wrong. 30/30 is plenty for the vast majority of north american game. You just have to do something that too many are not willing to do. Practice.