Choupique
WKR
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2022
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think most who choose to shoot the RokSlide Special for elk/moose/bear ( such as myself) will not have that same mindset and will opt for more optimum conditions.
Yea you guys get very drastically more experience shooting big game at distance than us eastern folk do. I'm jealous. I also could decide right now that I wanted to go blue water fishing out of Venice tomorrow and hook up the boat and go do it. If only we could all have it all. Compromise sucks.
I think we'd all shoot bigger guns if it didn't affect our ability to shoot well or practice. It'd extend the effective range if nothing else. What I never really thought about prior to buying my one rifle is the whole bit about shooting bigger groups, practicing more with what you use, etc. Even if recoil were a total non-factor, the cost of shooting a big gun still is and it still sucks. If you aren't a reloader your looking at as much as $6 to pull the trigger on a 338 win mag. It isn't a whole lot better even if you do reload.
The whole premise of using a .223 for elk is so grunge when looking at the prevailing opinion of magazine writers, TV show hosts, eastern hunters like me, and in general people who just don't shoot a whole lot. I love it. The reality is, most of us just really don't know shit when it comes to killing game out west.