Just for [bleep] and giggles, I killed mule deer for a few years with a Weatherby Varmintmaster I rebarreled to the .308X1.5". Basically, the round is equal to the 7.62X39.

I killed twenty or more deer with the round and used the 130-grain Speer SPFN. Literally every buck was a bang-flop.

Cheers,

kd