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Old 01-14-2017, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Bushleague View Post
Same here, it has nothing to do with the cartridges... more to do with the people that I've hunted with who love these cartridges. The type of people who think that shooting a .300 mag proves their superior virility, the guys that call anything smaller a pea-shooter, when they tell you what they shoot its like a grand proclamation their voice drops a couple of octaves when they get to the "MAGNUM" part...

I've never really seen a need for any magnum, but to me the .300 Mags in particular are like Tapout shirts, lifted duallys, and chrome testicles for you truck.
You are bang on sir. I am fine with my plain t shirt, non lifted stock dodge powered by a stock cummins engine and my boring vanilla .30-06
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An awful lot of big game was killed with the .30-06 including the big bears before everyone became affluent enough to own a rifle for every species of game they might hunt.
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