A rather dumb article on many levels. The American way is indeed not waste and bravado and never was. Your recoil figures neglect velocity (and without that are meaningless) and your 180lb punching analogy is so so dumb since pressure applied over a very short time and over a very long time are very very different. Far too many fall victim to the ignorance of "biggest is best." The funny thing is that once velocity passes a certain point for a given bullet, penetration is actually reduced. Your uber manly 460 at 2700 fps cannot out penetrate a hardcast bullet from the 45-70 at below 1600fps! In fact the 45-70 with heavy hardcast (405+)at 1200-1600fps will travel, longest dimension, through any animal living in North America and with a big fat meplat it will knock them on their ear too. Your costly stock splitting whoohaw will just cost more, destroy itself, your body, your scope, and tick everybody else anywhere near you off. Just a note, when they shake their heads, it isn't envy...