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Lighter, smaller, high velocity, calibers are always fine choices on heavy thicker skinned game.....
Will it kill a moose? Of course as will a well placed .22 or a sharp stick. Is it the best round for the job? Of course not.
As far as some of the other observations on eargaslptizen super mags.
I'm sure that everything you shoot with your RUM's falls over dead from shock and truth in advertising syndrome.
However, I've seen the unbelievable occur. I've seen, and more than once mind you, when a critter was kjerslaped with a solid hit from a .300RUM and it ran off like nothing even touched it. Only to be found later after a serious bought of blood tracking. Sometimes times thy magic wand of velocity failith when thy practical theory of bullet placement falterith.
Back in the Weatherby hey day it was considered all the rage to go kill some hugeasaurous DG animal with a ridiculous little hyper velocity round like the .257 or the .270 Weatherby. It was then what it is now. A stupid human trick.
If you want a .257 weatherby. Go get one they may well be one of the finest long range light critter gitters on the planet.
They should not to be considered a "GOOD" moose gun.
Will it kill a moose? Of course as will a well placed .22 or a sharp stick. Is it the best round for the job? Of course not.
As far as some of the other observations on eargaslptizen super mags.
I'm sure that everything you shoot with your RUM's falls over dead from shock and truth in advertising syndrome.
However, I've seen the unbelievable occur. I've seen, and more than once mind you, when a critter was kjerslaped with a solid hit from a .300RUM and it ran off like nothing even touched it. Only to be found later after a serious bought of blood tracking. Sometimes times thy magic wand of velocity failith when thy practical theory of bullet placement falterith.
Back in the Weatherby hey day it was considered all the rage to go kill some hugeasaurous DG animal with a ridiculous little hyper velocity round like the .257 or the .270 Weatherby. It was then what it is now. A stupid human trick.
If you want a .257 weatherby. Go get one they may well be one of the finest long range light critter gitters on the planet.
They should not to be considered a "GOOD" moose gun.