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Originally Posted by Kreyzhorse
If you really want some discussion, the question should be re-stated in that the deer was at 100 yards and both rifles were zero'd at 200 yards. That might actually allow some room for discussion due to the ballastic differences between the cartridges.
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That is an interesting question, because the ballistics of the individual round come into play.
If we assume that the kill area of a whitetail deer is approximately 9" in diameter, then with a 200 yard zero, you have to take into account the mid-range ballistics of the bullet.
Using on-line resources, we learn that the Remington 300 grain express load moves that bullet at 1810 fps. I ran the numbers through my ballistics calculator and found that with a 200 yard zero, the bullet would be 6.98 inches high at 100 yards. Well within the kill zone, yet the rifleman would have to hold just a little low to keep the bullet in that 9" circle. That bullet would be carrying 1500 fpe, which is plenty for the game at hand.
The 30-06, on the other hand, using Remington numbers, would be within 3" of its sighting point from 100 to 250 yards, which gives plenty of fudge-factor for sighting errors or ranging errors.
Of course, all this is academic. It's the rifleman that matter, not the caliber he's carrying.