Originally Posted by
streetglideok
I say neither of the calibers listed, since this is your first rifle. I strongly encourage you to consider a 30'06, or 308 first.
That is what I've thought in the beginning (that's why I am talking about confusion).
Actually, I think that if I was in a region of dears, I would even go for a good old 30-30 lever action to start.
But since the first animal that I might go hunting might very well be a Bison, I changed my mind.
In the Yukon the 30-06 is the legal minimum to hunt bisons, but everybody I've ask said that they would not hunt a bison under a 300 mag. So that is why I turned towards magnums.