okay yall please don't give me a lot of grief...but when I was younger and couldn't afford a big rifle ....I killed enough deer with a 22 that my large calibers that I have today will not ever catch up.But now that I have grown up the calibers are in descending order...243,30/06,270..I dropped from 30/06 because it done to much damage to the meat, but I dropped from the 270 for the upcoming season to a 25/06