The article I noted above in no way suggested one hunt grizz with a 30/30 only that the ranger used what he had ! and it worked ! ( glad I didn't tell about the GI who shot a tiger with a M16 , or the native american and his .22 mag. )
I read quite a bit and don't recall any PH's using a 30/30 , you must indeed have read more than I , but a hunter named Bell did kill more than a 1000 elephants with a 6.5 mau. and a 7x57 ! And today it seems that one needs a crew served wepon to hunt anything larger than a jack rabbit !
I can only guess as to why this is but in the old days they hunted enough to know where to shoot an animal , and hunted for food or to make money . Today hunters spend more on a hunt than the old guys made in a year of hunting !
this is neither good or bad , just the way things worked out ! some hunters only shoot one animal , get it mounted and hang the gun and the critter's head on the wall and from then on is a hero to his buddies . This is just the way it works now thats why ya need th PH.
as an example , I am past 50 , have hunted deer all my life , I have harvested many as have most of the men my age that I hunt with , we know as much as anyone about shooting a deer , that is not bragging it is a fact .
We have watched deer long enough to know how they act and cleaned enough to know where the important parts are ( the ones that keep um running ) , we know what our rifle will do since we get to use it alot ( in Va. we get six deer tags and can buy more doe tags ) I hunt with a 7x30 waters alot of the time , I see in print all the time it makes a nice ladies or youth gun , I guess it might . Would ya let your lady or kid hunt with a gun not up to the task at hand ?
well it has worked well on deer from doe to 12 pointers and alot in the middle ! I use the gun because it has little kick I did this for a medical reason , when the medical reason went away I kept using the rifle ! maybe the ranger knew bears , maybe in the 70's his issue gun was a 30/30 , who knows but it worked ! The old hunters may not of had a choice but what they had worked . So if ya feel the need for a cannon to hunt mice , many are on the used gun rack , I know of a .338 and a couple 300's . But i did keep one 300 win. mag. for when i hunt some new game animal , at least until I have collected and cleaned enough to "KNOW"
One last thing - we who live in the U S A need no other justification to buy a rifle other than to want one , so why do we go thru. this dog and pony show about how all the other rifles made to date don't work anymore ? Be a man tell the wife ya just want it ! but it would be best to wait till the bill comes or she finds it which ever happens first ! before telling her !
