POLL: Your maximum rifle range on Deer

[TheSollyLama]

I totally agree, Skeet. I concede that the E Type is far larger, and of course it's not 3 feet of elk across.

My point was more about the accuracy limitations more than killing power. To me, 300 meters seems an easy shot, even with a beat up gun in Basic.

I'm with ya on the real world practicality of shooting at long range. Although I'm not on the magnum bandwagon alot of people seem to be on. I don't think the game is any harder to kill today than when my grandfather hunted with a .30-30 flat nose.

I sure wouldn't take on a cape buffalo with a .257 anything. But it does prove the point that it doesn't take a .416 Rigby either.

We're massively overgunned for the most part these days. I have bad legs so I like animals to drop where they stand too. I don't want to track it. But I've never had anything run off yet with a well placed shot. So I'll save my shoulder some and carry on with Roy's favorite while I'm at it.

But since my legs are bad- open terrain like where antelope live is more my forte, so that is really why I chose to go small/fast/flat with my chambering choice.
If I were back east or up in the mountains here more, I'd have gotten a simple .308