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Originally Posted by Lohman446
6.5 or .270 for hunting? It doesn't matter.
Let's say we had a scale for hunting North American game. I don't know what all goes into it but lets just pretend we do.
We are going to call it the humane kill factor to take game X at Y yards or less with a well placed shot. Except for at the extremes of Y its not going to matter.
Let's say the "humane kill factor" number works out to be 40.
The 6.5 and the .270 likely score in the 80+ range (ok, I'm making this all up for illustration purposes but you get the point).
We can debate all day if the 6.5 scores 83 and the .270 scores 80 or vice versa. In the end it simply does not matter. We are so far into the "overkill" portion of the scale that it makes no difference.
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Well stated! Except the 270 is green and the 6.5 is blue, and I prefer green.
All that to say the decision will come down to preference.