Also worth noting for American hunters is that there's a very real and surprisingly modest impact-velocity ceiling for effectively killing big game without destroying a lot of "good eatin' meat." There's also a velocity floor. The range of muzzle velocities for this level of effective performance is well under 3,000 ft/sec -- more like 2,000 to 2,500 ft/sec. Nobody in his right mind thinks that any single velocity figure says it all, of course, but the PHs' consensus of 2,400 ft/sec is also a good thumb rule for big critters on this side of the equator.
