Jason_W
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Answer, the guy with the .30-06 if he practices marksmanship with other rifles all year and knows his rifle's ballistics inside and out. At 300 yards, give me the naught six and I'll take up to elk and moose with the right load. I don't shoot my .308 all year, but i do know it inside and out from shooting it at various ranges on various days and I shoot all the time since all i have to do is step ot on my back porch to shoot the .22s or walk 50 yards to my rifle range shooting table. I also hunt all year. Rabbits and squirrels have no closed seasons in my woods. BUT, I think I put 5 rounds through the .308 before last season checking sight in.
Didn't you cleanly take a deer recently with a load of #3 buck from a 20 gauge?
Post #76 http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=774575&page=4
There are a good many people out there who would consider that to be an inadequate load for deer. I'm personally not knocking it as the dead deer is evidence of the effectiveness of that particular load's effectiveness against a whitetail.
That said, if your post, quoted above, was an argument against the .223 as a deer round, I would be curious to know why your "marginal" deer load is o.k. but someone else's "marginal" deer load is not.