" sniping game or hunting it?"
sir, I have serious doubts that you KNOW what a sniper's job is.
I was going to ignore this conversation till that one came up.
I have hunted with a .300 Win Mag since SAKO Finnbears sold new for $195.00. Yes I have made some dumb shots, it's called being young & lacking experience, I am no longer young, still trying for experience. Suffice to say that of all the ruined meat I've seen from .300's was due to improper bullet i.e. too light, I've seen far more made by poorly placed shots made by the " my thuddythuddy ( or audsix,twosevendy,etc.) is all you need bunch.
I agree, in the thick woods back east 75 yds is probably clear in the next county, I have serious doubts that mr. sniper hater can stalk good enough to get within 250 yds in the western sage brush ( since stalking is a major part of sniping he wouldn't want to do that) to get his close shot.
I've shot em from less than 30 to nearly 500, also made some long ones to help mr. doan need nuthin but my ......... take down an escaping wounded animal that didn't know it had been shot by a master hunter with an infallible cartridge.
OH yeah, & the horrible belt- been around since 1912 or so- as far as I am concerned this so called horrible device falls into the same catagory as the singleaction\double action set up with pistols. works fine if you learn how to use it. but lets face it, it is way easier to ridicule something we don't like or have the skills to use than to work at learning about it isn't it!
By the way I also own 2 -30\06's, 2 -.308's, & a
38\55, just to mention a few, funny thing is they all have their strengths & weaknesses, just like people.