I'll rant about what I want to rant about, with or without your approval, pure and simple.

Point being: The 458 Win. Mag. has had a checkered career in its own right, yet it's considerably faster and more versatile than the 45-70 is, and I have personally used it on dangerous African big game such as buffalo and hippo, as well as plainsgame. It's a better dangerous game cartridge than the 45-70 is (it couldn't be any other way), and the faster 458s and 416s are better yet. So the 45-70 loses that battle by default.

Same with the 30-06; for 98% (at least) of the world's non-dangerous big game, it not only shoots flatter, but it'll prove to be more versatile than the 45-70 day-in and day-out, and it'll kill just as well.

I don't have to be a 45-70 user in order to be able to connect that set of dots, nor do I have to have experience with the 338 Federal in order to know that I'd rather have the 338 Win. Mag., which I have used considerably.

Nor do I have to know Billery Klinton, for that matter, in order to know that she's not someone that I want anything to do with.......

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