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Look at the records of USMC snipers in Viet Nam and even today. The 308 (7.62 NATO) with a 173 grain bullet is not exactly fast or flat compared to a 300 mag. But Marines sure made them count. In Viet Nam the average was 1.2 shots per kill on NVA and VC. Compared to 1 kill per 246,000 rounds for the other combatants of the war, 1.2 per kill sounds pretty good even with the "slow pokie" 308.

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There is accuracy and there is power. Few can master the greater powered ctg. when launched in a hunting weight rifle and obtain the desired accuracy, accuracy that can be obtained with a less 'powerful' ctg.

They are very much better off with an adequate round that gives them an accuracy advantage or edge. Too much importance today, is heaped upon trajectory and not enough on stressing to use an adequate round that you can shoot accurately. Too much emphasis is placed upon the round's ability to kill game well beyond the range most if not all people should be shooting. Really long ranges and big game leads to wounded & lost game. Anytime an amimal can take a step or two between the sear's tripping and the bullet's arrival, the range is too great. And that is for someone with the skill to hit properly at that range, which describes very few people indeed.

Power does not kill better than an adequate round placed accurately, it merely gives an advantage in trajectory beyond the 'accuracy' range of most people, when game is the quarry.

It is a rare hunter today who can shoot into a pie plate sized target at a range of 200yards from hunting positions at a range let alone when hunting in the field. Some are hard pressed to do this at even 100 yards.

The magnums do not help such a hunter one iota, they merely kick him harder making the requisite accuracy even more difficult to obtain as well as costing more to feed.

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Daryl


"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

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