These new powders have changed a lot of "rules".
DF
But the proven effectiveness of old 30-06 performance on game remains valid. A 165/180 grain 30 Cal bullet at old school 30-06 speeds will kill most things quite effectively.
Yep.
And that can be said for a host of "old fashioned" rounds that have been efficiently killing stuff for generations.
The main thing I see with some of these new, high intensity rounds is superior performance at extended ranges. Most old time hunters wouldn't have considered shooting a deer at 500 yds. They'd have gotten closer and zapped it with a .300 Savage or such.
Shooting critters across canyons and hugh bean fields wasn't in their play book. I guess buffalo hunters out West, with their big rifles, did some of that. But they were professionals, not neighborhood deer hunters.
IMHO,
DF
