Thread: A question for the doubters

Originally Posted by Hunter_Nick

Ok, so I take it that 14 dead red stags isn’t enough then….. how many will it take?
And what ‘extra’ does a 308 or .270 give you? Death doesn’t come in varying levels of severity. If you said less wind drift and fps at range, then sure we could talk about that.

To be clear, I’m not in this to put anyone’s nose out of joint. I’d be more than happy for someone to convince me with DATA (not yarns) why I should swap the scope from my .223 to the 6.5. I just haven’t seen any difference in getting deer on the deck between any of the cartridges I’ve shot deer with. One thing is certain though, my accuracy has improved with the smaller ones.

Even "less drift" at range isn't as clear cut at improving hit probability as we might think. This is a whole different kettle of fish - but it is sort of related. I'll start a thread on hit probability one day. May as well kill all the sacred cows.



For now here's a glimpse - a very small 6mm cartridge with a 108gr at 2700fps has the same hit probability at 500m on a 200mm dia circle as a 6.5PRC or a 7mm Rem Mag, with the median wind estimation error being 0.5ms and all other variables being "ideal". And has enough velocity for the bullet to fragment.

Of course increased recoil and cost tends to move the variables further away from "ideal" for larger cartridges more than smaller.