It's not necessarily the gun but the shooter. Why ruin all the meat just to blow it to he** My dad hunted out west and has a record mule deer rack. He would shoot 300 yards with out flinching hunted ground hogs in a 500 yard field. All with the same gun and one that I use. A Remington model 722 257 Roberts. As me old man used to say never shoot against a man with one gun. I wouldn't want to take on a grizzly with a 257 but then they have been killed with a lot smaller gun. Make the shot count.