I agree. Having said that, I have shot a lot of big game over the years. The shock wave tissue damage seen in the wounds from the ultra velocity rifles makes for much faster stops than the double diameter of projectile holes left by the slower cartridges. I have shot a pile of deer with my .30-30 Winchester. Heart shots usually run at least 50 yards. Lung shots, 200 to 300 yards is not uncommon. Heart shots from the .257 WBY are dead in tracks. Lung shots? 50 yards at most. When you "autopsy" the deer, the amount of damage done becomes most obvious. At slow velocity, you have a clean wound channel. Hyper velocity yields a big pile of gelatin looking mess that used to be tissue.
The 7 Rum has field dressed white tails for me a few times. The amount of tissue damage is massive. The down side of that is that a hit in the wrong place destroys so much meat that you lost 1/3 of your animal.
Last edited by reynolds357; September 1, 2013 at 12:29 AM.
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