So, your mentor likes the sausage made before it’s field dressed? Lol.I recently bought a Cooper Excalibur in 6.5-284 and topped it with a Swarovski Z5 to be my primary deer rifle. This year I’m still hunting with my Stainless ABolt in 300 wsm.
I’m relatively new to hunting, 3 years, and have killed 5 deer with 4 different guns. What I’ve found is that deer don’t really care. The most important factor is shot placement, but bigger holes also help.
My hunting mentor prefers taking cannons into the woods: 350 rem mag, 338 win mag, 325 WSM.