Click on the link and read the top 10 big game cartridges:

http://www.petersenshunting.com/ammo/americas-top-10-big-game-cartridges/

The ads are totally out of control on that link.
I don't know why they don't list the top 9 or the top 11 cartridges. This obsession with the number ten is just out of control ...
That out of the way, the list is skewed to flat shooting western cartridges, a couple of which are niche cartridges at best. Yawn.

Absolute [censored]! Someone is trying to SELL something that I am NOT BUYING!

What a bunch of crock.....no way some of those should be included and no way the old 30/30 should be excluded.

Lame article. 4 '06 cartridges on the list? 2 6.5s? 28 Nosler? I'm taking crazy pills...

Gotta wonder what the author's definition of "top" is.

I was amazed that the .308 and the 7mm-08 weren't listed.

Me too.

I've never met someone who hunts with a 6.5-284 or a 28 nosler. Only know one guy who uses a .280 AI. Same goes for the 6.5 creedmoor.


In my humble opinion, it was a pointless article written only to meet a deadline.

I don't have a violent reaction against it. It had most of the obvious contenders plus a couple so many rave about I have to believe they are good rounds. These "top 10 lists" really just have one purpose: to get attention and debate going.

At least .223 wasn't in there......

I know more people who hunt with a .223 than most of the cartridges listed in the article....

What's popularity got to do with his opinion of what the best are? Was that a part of his criteria?

Well its his opinion, I agree on a few disagree on a few.

What is the def of big game is debatable also. Are white tails and Mule deer big game by his definition?

Honestly I would have a hard time picking a top ten big game rounds. If deer size game are included then it would be much easier.

The 300 wm, 7mm rem mag, 30-06 are all solid ones though.

i use a 25-06 and a 300 win mag ...luv the creedmoor,,,never even heard of a .28 nosler

he didn't list one Weatherby Cartridge on the list.....clear the guy is an amateur. he has 3 .284 caliber rounds in the list and two 6.5's but only 1 .30 cal and 1 .33 caliber.

I would switch the 25-06 to 257 weatherby.

Like others, list has some worthy and unworthy. .338 win for elk ranks high; I need one.

When are deer not considered big game?

Can't hardly argue with .270 Win, .30-06, 7mm Rem Mag, .300 Win Mag, and .338 Win Mag - and that's half the list.

It is his opinion and we all know what they say about opinions.

really there are some on that list I would include but he left out some good ones and from the pictures he hunts out West. I skimmed through and didn't see what if he mentioned it what his criteria was for those selections. Some of his choices are basically duplicates of other choices.

Like many things I take these lists with a grain of salt

I'd take those 5 plus add .243, 25-06, 6.5 CM, 7-08, and .308.

Done.

Winchester classifies them as medium game. I would agree.

MY top 10
1. 30-06
2. 30-30
3. .270 Winchester
4. 7mm Remington Mag
5. .300 Win mag.
6. .257 Roberts
7. .243 Winchester
8. 7mm Mauser
9. 45-70 Gov.
10..220 Swift

Since my main "Big Game" animal is the whitetailed deer, I chose those calibers because I have killed at least one whitetail with each of them and I own every caliber.

In over 50 years of hunting deer and larger I've only hunted with 3 people that used a 30-30.

So what ??