[quote=bwinters].WDM Bell and and Harry Selby were advocates of the primary importance of shot placement.
Phill Shoemaker, Boddington and anyone on 24CF with rational sense...will tell you the same.
Boddington must've changed his tune. I've read a bunch of his stuff where he touts the .338 for elk, and a minimum of 2000 ft-lbs of energy at the animal, not at the muzzle.
And using Energy as a requirement tells me everything I need to know about CB...
There is no question that energy is required. Without energy transfer, nothing happens.
Even with massive energy transfer, if it happens over a large enough area or time span, nothing interesting happens.
Those two facts should lead one to the more interesting questions and useful answers.
