Originally Posted by Mule Deer
Nowadays, of course, the pendulum often swings the other way: Many hunters don't believe big game (even small whitetails) can be killed "efficiently" with anything other than a monometal bullet, while others just as firmly believe in super-high ballistic coefficient bullets and twirling the elevation knob. It sometimes makes me wonder how in hell hunters killed any sort of big game before the year 2000.


And entirely missing from the discussion is bullet placement. Which seems irrelevant in a discussion of which bullet to use, until you recognize that some very savvy hunters use "target bullets" like the Scenar for better bullet placement.


A wise man is frequently humbled.