Need advice in choosing a 308/30-06 rifle. - Page 2

Clark · July 14, 2014, 06:39 PM

I can tell you this from experience doing it:
Getting an elk tag and getting a shot at an elk is not easy.
Getting a deer tag and getting a shot at a deer is easy.

If the 30-06 is adequate for elk, then the .223 is overkill for any deer.
That flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
How did we get unwise conventional wisdom?
We can only carry a 10 pound rifle, scope, sling, bipod, and ammo.
So we carry rifles that will bang flop any deer and rifles that take a couple non vital shots on an elk.

And then we justify what we are doing.

July 14, 2014, 06:39 PM	#26
Clark Senior Member Join Date: December 4, 1999 Location: WA, the ever blue state Posts: 4,678	I can tell you this from experience doing it: Getting an elk tag and getting a shot at an elk is not easy. Getting a deer tag and getting a shot at a deer is easy. If the 30-06 is adequate for elk, then the .223 is overkill for any deer. That flies in the face of conventional wisdom. How did we get unwise conventional wisdom? We can only carry a 10 pound rifle, scope, sling, bipod, and ammo. So we carry rifles that will bang flop any deer and rifles that take a couple non vital shots on an elk. And then we justify what we are doing. __________________ The word 'forum" does not mean "not criticizing books." "Ad hominem fallacy" is not the same as point by point criticism of books. If you bought the book, and believe it all, it may FEEL like an ad hominem attack, but you might strive to accept other points of view may exist. Are we a nation of competing ideas, or a nation of forced conformity of thought?