Good question because I wouldn’t want to use it either honestly. Strictly perfect behind the shoulder shots only.
His father would not get behind the idea of him shooting something smaller. He’s not a big kid, and only as good of a shooter as a 10 year old shooting a 308 could be. He does good at the range, but I knew there was the potential for some less than stellar shooting in the moment.
My thought process was that if we were going to get all of the downsides of the 308 namely the recoil (not my idea), we may as well just throw hand grenades at whatever we were shooting in hopes to balance out some potential vital misses. Scorched earth.
That said, he is a stone cold killer and 100% delivered. We made the comparison to a machine gunner in Normandy the way he handled that moose off of his tripod.
Him and his father officially asked if I could load something that is a little more gentle on the animals tonight. Haha