Dig down through the layers, and what I'm really, really getting at here is human reasoning processes. Do people ever change their minds?

My post a few weeks back was basically aimed at that point. It seemed (and seems) logical that one's "bottom line" caliber would have to drop at least one notch if the premium bullets were worth buying. Clearly the premium bullets are selling, and its likely that they're selling about equally to "big caliber" guys as anyone else. So why buy them if they don't change the equation just a little. I just wanted to see one person say, "wow you're right, maybe a guy would do fine to shoot elk with a 270 now, even though I had always said 280 was the minimum", or words to that effect. So far, I haven't heard that. People are still stuck on their ancient assumptions.

Swinging back in to the "velocity is the same, weight is the same" position is simply refusing to deal with the point. Clearly, bullet design should compensate in some way for raw statistics on energy, which is at best an approximation of "killing power".