With similar needs, I opted for the .308. Usually I hunt deer with the 150 gr Whitetails, but may have to field 165 gr Nosler's after this 3 shot group. Pretty sure I pushed the last shot right because I was puzzled, "Where did my second shot go?"
First sit of the year, finally! Hunting a spot of land next to a cemetary of all places. Had 4 spooky does flank me and come around my 6, but gave them a pass. It's been dead since.
If you're destroying rifles, arbitrarily increasing the age limit for the legal purchase of firearms AND using your profits to hire anti-gun lobbyists, then you are definitely NOT pro-2A!
Wholeheartedly agree that we should have our choice, but TP does offer NY legal xbows in their Wicked Ridge line. I picked up the WR Warrior Ultra Lite and saw no reason to spend double or triple the money on TP's Ravin-like xbows. Each will kill a deer just as dead.