North East wrote:These old caliber debates for hunting have been around for ever and will probably go on for another 100 years.
It's like the old "should I get a .270, .308 or a .30-06?" question. Damned if I know…they all do the job, just a matter of preference. I prefer the .30-06 though.
But a 7-08 does the job as well as does a heap of other calibers.
Then you go to bench rest and the 6mm BR crowd chime in.
It never ends but it's a good laugh.
You know if I go for a drive down the valley and I have cull tags or it is one of the two deer seasons we have and I am helping someone I usually throw the dirty old .303 in the back, I have numerous other calibres and even two .243s but the .303 sits comfortably and has done so on and off since I was 14, 30 plus years.
I have a mate with an early Winchester model 70 30/06 that his grandfather handed down, at half a dozen shots a year it will serve his kids just as well as it has done him, his father and grandfather.
You need to change to progress but sometimes it really isn't neccesary as long as there is still food on the table, the ones that have gotten away have usually been my fault not the firearm's. There's something profound in that statement.