What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

[KHntr]

The only time I’ve seen a bear killed by a square on shoulder shot was from a .300 Weatherby. The bullet penetrated completely and turned everything past the shoulder into jelly. I’ve seen plenty of other rounds not penetrate including .270s and .30-06s.

270’s and 30-06’s not penetrate bears?!?!?!?!???!

Plenty of them?!!!?!
How many is “plenty”?


Tread carefully, some of us have seen a dead bear once or twice.

 

[NMTGrad]

270’s and 30-06’s not penetrate bears?!?!?!?!???!

Plenty of them?!!!?!
How many is “plenty”?


Tread carefully, some of us have seen a dead bear once or twice.

Two .270s and one .30-06 last year. All three hit the shoulders and all three wounded the bears. The bears were not recovered. That was last year. This year so far has been one .375 SOCOM. We also had a client, for some frankly inexplicable reason, try a head shot with a .30-06. He missed and hit the neck. Wounded and not recovered. We didn’t try tracking that one too hard because we were wore out from the last one (the .375 SOCOM one).

The problem is when you’re guiding or running an outfitting operation, you can’t make the shot for the client. We’ve tried everything. Caliber restrictions (not too big, not too small), bullet restrictions, making people shoot before they head to the stands, refusing to send people to the stands who clearly can’t shoot, etc.), putting the stands closer and so on. In the end, people take poor shots for a myriad of reasons. And when they do, I’m the dude who has to try and find the animal. If I had my way, the client list would be way shorter and limited to known shooters. But I’m not the boss, and if that was the case, the boss would be out of business.

Do I wish all hunters were like a lot folks here, constantly honing skills and equipment? Hell yeah. But they’re just not.

 

[KHntr]

Two .270s and one .30-06 last year. All three hit the shoulders and all three wounded the bears. The bears were not recovered. That was last year. This year so far has been one .375 SOCOM. We also had a client, for some frankly inexplicable reason, try a head shot with a .30-06. He missed and hit the neck. Wounded and not recovered. We didn’t try tracking that one too hard because we were wore out from the last one (the .375 SOCOM one).

So you are talking out of your ass, AND you are fùcking clowns running a guiding outfit.
Sounds about right.

 

[NMTGrad]

So you are talking out of your ass, AND you are fùcking clowns running a guiding outfit.
Sounds about right.

Wow. And again, you RokSliders prove a point I made last month. You don’t hesitate to just spin right up into troll mode. I made no comment towards you to warrant such vitriol. You also seem to judge a business you know nothing about. By all means, come do better. You won’t. I’ve seen plenty others try and fail.

So I will close out my time here on this forum, let it remind me why I rarely ever engage in internet conversations with strangers, and get banned by the moderators forever and be ok with it. Go **** yourself.

 

[KHntr]

Naw, I just don’t waste respect on clowns who let their clients wound a bunch of animals and then decide they are too tired to go look for a wounded one.