I know of a firm which is hired out to kill whitetails. They use .338 win mags w/250 grain bullets as the don't want the animals to leave the property. They claim those whitetails don't even twitch.
**sigh**
I'll bet a chambering/bullet conversation with those "experts" would be an interesting and enlightening discussion: "Yep, we shoot them at the base of the neck (or head) and it drops them right there".
I think their shooting at distances to far to try for head shots. Could go for base of the neck shots but wastes meat when donating animals. I've seen some of their damage to the animal pictures, and their shooting them through the lungs. Quite a devastating hole.
But we all know that if we used a cannon ball @ 3000 fps vs. a needle @ 3000 fps at point blank range, the cannon ball is going to kill them faster.
