Best All Around Caliber for Whitetail and Mule Deer?

[memtb]

We're not alone here…..it just seems that way! Maybe, just maybe, some of these folks will gain "enlightenment" and start the pendulum swing back toward normalcy!

Though, I find their antics rather entertaining……sorta like watching young children attempt playing 3 Dimensional Chess! memtb

 

[Turpentine21]

Memtb
I am with you and was about to cut out of this website altogether when I saw your post.

I came here to help people with a few loads now and then, still like to contribute my 63year experience popping primers, but this shorter than short carbine barrel fad leaves me cold.

I'm with you. I'm not afraid to try a little bit of the new. I do love my ARs. 5.56-to dern puny, 7.62 x 51- gets it done, Creedmore- slow but accurate, Grendel-even slower but one of my absolute favorites. But as far as bolt gun cartridges go I like the old tried and true. I like a heavy rifle with a longer barrel. I have no cans, no brakes, no mono metal bullets. But I have gone high tech with thermal and in a word it's awesome for what I do. I still run 2 stroke outboards, I rebuild them myself, and I still fish with a cane pole at times. I still have to pull a shifter in the floor and get out to lock the hubs to put my truck in 4wd. It has vinyl seats and floors so I can wash it out with a water hose. I still live in a place where I can take a leak off the porch without offending someone and I exercise that right most every day. I also find myself wishing I could go back about 40 years and just stay there. I had it made and didn't know it !