Folks, I'm about to do something I really don't want to do. And that is address the modern

trend that shooting big game with small cartridges isn't just possible. It's maybe the best thing to do,

right? I resisted this for, well, weeks, months since it started for several reasons.

I've got a bunch of notes here that I'm going to refer to throughout this discussion.

You know, I honestly believe this is a flash in the pan trend.

I thought it would blow over in months. I think now it's going to take years

to blow over, which is regrettable. I believe mankind repeats his mistakes and often the only way to

return to the straight and narrow path is by sad experience.

And unfortunately, I think a lot of the guys that have gotten on this small cartridges

for big game trend will eventually come around to recognizing that was probably a bad idea.

And we're going to talk a little bit about why I've had so many listeners requests that I

address this, that I can't ignore it any longer.

I had originally kind of hope to do like the royal family does in England. I'm allowed to refer to them,

right? Because my wife's British, where they don't validate small scandals or, you know,

fooferra trends, whatever, by acknowledging it at all. Once they acknowledge it, it becomes a big scandal or a big

trend. And I just did not feel in the least inclined to address this because, candidly, I think

it's foolish. And I don't want to give those who promote it a platform on my podcast, and I don't want to

inadvertently farther the trend myself. Now, I'm not trying to say that small caliber

cartridges aren't good for certain types of big game hunting. I do think the recent 22 Creedmoor, the 22 arc, and if we're fortunate

enough to see it introduced here in the next while, a 25 Creedmoor are terrific for deer-sized

games such as Coos deer, Ponghorn Antelope, White Tail Deer, even most mule deer, even big ones, right?

But there's a limit to any practical application of any tool, right?

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