I think you made a good choice. That lens has a lot of bang for the buck. If you want to see how it performs, there are 18 photos in my gallery. Every one of them was taken using the 70-300 mm VR like the one you went with. Most, if not all, were taken with the lens racked all the way out to 300mm.
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