Originally Posted by ChanceD
Which bullet diameter carries the best terminal ballistics for North American Venison and Pork?
.30
.284
.277
.264
Other....
Not asking so much about chamberings, just bullet diameters.
In my experience the .284 if pushed fast enough kills stuff like a lightening bolt. It’s funny, I don’t even own a .284 in any chambering currently. What do you guys think?


Hmmm...

My 30-06 will do most everything my 30-30 will do, but not the reverse. My .223 is perfectly capable of doing what my 30-06 does inside 100 yards, The range at which something in the high 90% of all deer are killed

The last 6 years I have been killing a lot of deer. A lot of those deer were killed with arrows. A couple of those deer were down and dead where they stood, but most ran something like about 50 yards. Some did run further. That's more or less the results my 30-06 produces. Does that make my bow equal to my 30-06? I guess though that none of my rifles of bows will ever be as efficient as my son's .270 because 100% of the deer he has killed with it dropped where they stood.