6mm Creedmoor first elk hunt

[memtb]

Don't need to, smaller caliber, less recoiling rifles kill big game very well. Also, many people have debilitating shoulder injuries, like the ex-Army ranger I hunt with, and can't shoot a magnum anymore...and 100% agrees with me.................that golf is a pointless game.

Others have developed a horrible flinch from shooting heavy-recoiling magnum rifles "cuz that's what daddy and grand-daddy said to use" and what they mistakenly learned on. Flinching is not a matter of if, but when. Everyone will develop one eventually, amplify that hard-recoiling rifle with "buck fever" and a less-than perfect positional shooting and your hit percentage plummets. That's been proven, not speculation.

90% of the time, pro shooter Jon Pynch shoots nothing more than a 6.5 caliber, and will only shoot over .30 when forced to because he knows the consequences of shooting heavy-recoiling rifles - he'll quickly develop a flinch that he has to work out.

When my comment pertaining to recoil, I've made exceptions…….shoulder injuries or perhaps a eye issue such as a Detached Cornea.


Assuming no physical disabilities…..most anyone should be able to handle the felt recoil of most common magnums in hunting situations.

My wife doesn't enjoy bench work, or Prairie Dog shooting sessions with her sub 9 lb. .338 WM……but is pretty darn deadly on game. And has no issues going prone with it if needed!


There are better cartridges for extended shooting sessions than magnums beyond, let's say for example, .264 WM and up.

I believe that any injury/issue free adult can easily manage most popular, modest weight magnums……if they want to! memtb

 

[WA Coyote]

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Never underestimate your ability to overestimate your ability!

 

[Fenix Outdoors]

Never underestimate your ability to overestimate your ability!

Exactly

 

[memtb]

Never underestimate your ability to overestimate your ability!

Wow, are you're observant…….there's a lot of this happening here! memtb

 

[Fenix Outdoors]

When my comment pertaining to recoil, I've made exceptions…….shoulder injuries or perhaps a eye issue such as a Detached Cornea.


Assuming no physical disabilities…..most anyone should be able to handle the felt recoil of most common magnums in hunting situations.

My wife doesn't enjoy bench work, or Prairie Dog shooting sessions with her sub 9 lb. .338 WM……but is pretty darn deadly on game. And has no issues going prone with it if needed!


There are better cartridges for extended shooting sessions than magnums beyond, let's say for example, .264 WM and up.

I believe that any injury/issue free adult can easily manage most popular, modest weight magnums……if they want to! memtb

Yes, if they want to, and not, if they don't, is that not ok?
Man I'm with you, I LOVE shooting my two 300 and 338 Norma Mag Improved rifles Dallas Lane built me, and I shoot them really well, just not quite as well under hunting conditions with added stressors to the shot, like on my knees over a backpack or tripod uphill in wind at distance.

 

[memtb]

Man I'm with you, I LOVE shooting my two 300 and 338 Norma Mag Improved rifles Dallas Lane built me, and I shoot them really well, just not quite as well under hunting conditions with added stressors to the shot, like on my knees over a backpack or tripod uphill in wind at distance.

Perhaps we can agree that……we won't agree on everything!

I guess that we both must make what we perceive as the best decisions based upon our personal beliefs! memtb

 

[Fenix Outdoors]

Perhaps we can agree that……we won't agree on everything!

I guess that we both must make what we perceive as the best decisions based upon our personal beliefs! memtb

Yes sir, and we're all supposed to be 100% ok with that. Methods of killing big game is serious business but completely ambiguous. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, or argue pointless ethics, only that I've personally gone hard down this road that the OP questioned and have learned a ton in this rare opportunity to experience hunting and culling animals at a high level, and I wanted to share what I've learned and help dispel old and new mindsets.