My thoughts on .30-.378 Wby Mag, .300 Dakota, and now the .300 Rem Ultra Mag, are that these are of very little utility, and are only successful because of machismo and the average Joe's desire for the highest velocity ("My gun's shoots bullets faster than your gun, man"). Really, once you get past about 300 Win Mag in case capacity, you get big-time diminishing returns, don't you? In other words, more and more cost/recoil/gun size, but with less and less increased marginal performance, which is really not needed anyway unless you actually snipe human beings for a living or something - even then, if you're actually shooting out that far, you need to go up to a bigger caliber anyway and shoot 8mm, .338 or bigger for those ranges, don't you. I guess the succint term for these cartridges is "inefficient". So tell me, do any of you "serious" shooters use these calibers, or do you stick to 308/300 sav/30-06, or perhaps the win mag or norma mag, by and large? Seems to me that when the cartridge case gets that big, you'd be better off, for most all hunting purposes, pushing a 250 grain .338 bullet with an outstanding BC, and close to being as fast. And if you don't need a bullet that big, then tell me something the win mag cannot do on smaller game?
[This message has been edited by Futo Inu (edited December 23, 1999).]
[This message has been edited by Futo Inu (edited December 23, 1999).]