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Originally posted by LWD:
And I was really serious. .30 cals are very effective to be sure. My .30-06 is my favorite gun, and I'll part with it only under dire circumstances. But they really are 'tweeners. More than or less than needed. Can they do for a lot and then some? Sure. But they aren't ideal for much. And the size bullets feasibly used in most .30 cals are small enough to be ballistically inefficient. So Ray was right on it. You'd really be better served with a battery of two in the 6.5mm, .270, 7mm size on the bottom and the 8mm, .338, 9.3mm, .375 size on the top end.

LWD