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roy reali · October 24, 2005, 03:21 PM

I went to the range today. I did alright. There was a gentleman with a new rifle. He was trying to zero it in for deer hunting. He had a box of factory ammo. He also had a flinch going.

He had a flinch because he was shooting a Weatherby in 30-378.

What is going on? What kind of deer do these folks expect to run into, espically here in California? There are wolves in Alaska that outweigh our deer. A decent size dog could just about retrieve one. Are the magazine writers so good as to have duped a bunch of deer hunyers into thinking that their prey in armour coated?

Do other parts of the country have this same thing going on?

October 24, 2005, 03:21 PM	#1
roy reali Senior Member Join Date: August 23, 2005 Posts: 3,248	Why????????????? (30-378 for deer hunting) I went to the range today. I did alright. There was a gentleman with a new rifle. He was trying to zero it in for deer hunting. He had a box of factory ammo. He also had a flinch going. He had a flinch because he was shooting a Weatherby in 30-378. What is going on? What kind of deer do these folks expect to run into, espically here in California? There are wolves in Alaska that outweigh our deer. A decent size dog could just about retrieve one. Are the magazine writers so good as to have duped a bunch of deer hunyers into thinking that their prey in armour coated? Do other parts of the country have this same thing going on?