I'm an Excel geek amongst other things, and after looking at a lot of pet load data, I started to see a pattern of favored bullet weights by cartridge. I spent a few hours trying to make some sense of all of the factors in Excel and this is the table I came up with. The result of the calculations is the "Opt. Wgt in gr...." Which according to the calculations, would be the most effective bullet for that particular chambering.

The Taylor Bekker Index at the end is just something I devised as an amalgamation of the two major schools of thought on knock down power. (if you believe in that sort of thing)

But I'll save that for another day.

Anyway here's the table, I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts.

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