I'm guessing I'm an old fart (57) on this board. How many of you have more than 10 years hunting experience?

I've got a decade on you Paul. I've hunted my whole life starting with Gramps when I was eight. I've hunted rabbits, squirrels quail, ringnecks, ducks, snow geese and deer. This was all done with a Marlin 22 lever action rifle and an old 12 gauge Ithaca Pump. I guess at the very beginning there was a short romance with a single shot .410 No large bore center fires, they weren't legal back in the day and are just being phased in here now. Dream travel in search of big game was always beyond my means, but I would not trade my time afield for anything

I have had a 270 since 1972. My kids are already arguing over it and I ain't even dead yet. And, I'm left handed.LOL

I've been hunting since I was age 9, and that was more than 10 years ago. I grew up on a farm. I use several guns for hunting. I use a .22 rimfire for rabbits, squirrels and quail. I use a .243 Winchester for varmints and small deer. I use a .300 Winchester Magnum for elk. if I went after Kodiak bears, I'd use a .338 Winchester Magnum. If I went after elephants, I'd use a .458 Winchester Magnum.

At 61 I've got 56 years of hunting under my belt. At 5 after gun safety and target practice overseen by my (Korean war vet) dad, I started out with cottontails and water snakes in the pond out back of our house with a single shot .22 short.

I'm a little younger than you but not by much. My hunting experience has been off and on for about 20 years or so.

50 years.

ive never done alot of hunting just to hunt and i dont live in the open west where distances across canyons ect can open way up ... but ive dropped alot of different things with a simple .22lr lol i guess its whatever you like .. i think something like a .308 is very practical these days for alot of reasons .. like i said out west in open areas where 400 yard shots can be normal a .300 mag makes more sense probably ..

Back some 55 years ago at the age of 7 I got a Daisy Red Rider from my grandfather. There wasn't a empty #9 bean can, grasshopper, or bumble bee on the family farm that didn't get shot at. Over the years I've hunted with everything from a 22 short up to a 458 win mag. I have a "decent" collection of sporting arms for all types of game and fowl, been fortunate to hunt in 37 different counties on 4 continents and fish a few more. I have taken almost every game animal in CONUS with a 308 or 7mag but use several different calibers and makes of rifles and handguns depending on the location and species I'm hunting.

I used to shoot the 12 Gage as the main bird gun and adjusted with different loads and shell lengths. Over the past 4 to 5 years I've been doing more shooting and hunting with the 20 Gage, seems the shoulder appreciates its.

I started hunting deer and elk back in the early 70s,I reload for 223,243,30-06 and 300 WSM rifles and I always suggest using a proper cartridge for specific hunting applications. I've seen 270s take elk every year,but I'm personally more comfortable with a little more mass on target like what a 30-06 165 grain load provides. And while I use a 300 WSM (near enough to Win Mag) since my son took over the 30-06 I don't often recommend magnum cartridges other than 7mm Rem Mag, which is close enough to 30-06 performance without being abusive.

Blah blah blah blah blah. This ain't no chat room, old fart.