Originally Posted by
jackson21
Yes there are two trains of thought on this I guess, and not saying you are wrong.
A bad shot with any calibre is still going to be a bad shot regardless, I have .223's, 243, rifles etc but if I was only going to have one rifle it would be the 308 out of these. Hands down they do kill much more emphatically and they are not a heavy recoiling rifle using 150gr to the average sized kiwi bloke, the more people say this people will start believing it.
Answer to any flinching is more rounds down range, chuck 50-60 rounds of FMJ at range, cost you same as going to pub for a few hours in variety of shooting positions and there will be no flinch by the end and you will naturally start getting in behind it, other one is dry firing.
Ideally you would have a couple of cals, but sounds like he just after an all rounder.
Put this scenario, new shooter, spies a solid looking red deer at approx 250 meters in a clearing surrounded by solid scrub I know which cal I would want to bring the bacon.