Premium Sauces - you want this thread to go away but you just replied to it.
Think what you want, but it seems to me that
you're the one with the comprehension problem.
Here is the complete original post.
Shawnee said:
Criteria...
* should have bullets and power that is effective for the kinds of game most U.S. hunters go after
* those bullets and that power should come from factory ammo. (No, most U.S. hunters do NOT reload)
* should be easy to hit with at the ranges most responsible/ethical U.S. hunters should be shooting at game - max around 300yds.
* should be easy for most U.S. hunters to shoot (re: blast and recoil)
* should be in a rifle/scope combo that is compact/light enough to be easily carried
* should NOT be scoped with a 3x412x55 double-secant-mil-dot-multi-plex-GPS-heat-seeking- technicolor-white sidewalls-computer-guided scope - in Camo.
So - realizing that most U.S. hunters go after "varmints" and Whitetail or Mule Deer, and sommmmmmmetimes hogs - we are looking for calibers that are true dual-purpose calibers - and there are exactly four (count 'em, 4) of them. Not three (3). Not five (5). There are four (4). Quatro. (4).
In reverse order of desirability they are:
#4 - the .250 Savage
#3 - the .257 Roberts
#2 - the 6mm Remington
and THE #1 - hands-down, guaranteed, All-Time Best Champion centerfire rifle caliber for the typical U.S. hunter is unquestionably - as everyone knows - the .243 Winchester.
an' Tha'ss a Fac', Jac !
You will note that there is some pretty well thought out criteria, a list of cartriges that meet that criteria, and the opinion that the .243 is the "best".
Maybe my reading comprehension is a little off here...
I had it pretty rough last semester and I've been taking it easy on the thinking lately, but can you maybe quote the question for me?
Because I don't see any question marks.
And according to Remington there is not enough difference in any of them that a deer would know the difference at 250 yards.
See for yourself:
http://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/ballistics/
Maybe one has a couple hundred more FPS, and the .257 Roberts carries 17 more grains of lead out there, but so what?
The effect on a deer would be about the same. And a guy who was used to using one of them could probably pick up any of the others on the day before the hunt, shoot a couple shots to check zero, and be completely effective with it in the field.