[>:][:@][>:][:@] Thinkin hard aren' t ya?

I shoot a .30-06, which is a fast medium weight bullet, and a .44 mag, which is a slow heavy bullet, not to mention my .45-70' s! I' ve also used .25-06' s and a few 7mm' s, and I much prefer the slower heavyweights to the speedballs. Don' t get me wrong, I love fast flat shooters on hunts I think I' ll really shoot out there a long way and on paper, but if a guy really thinks about it, the heavier bullets gonna retain more energy down range than the faster lighter bullets. Brick fallin on your foot from four inches (VERY low velocity) will hurt a lot more than a marble fallin on your foot from even four feet (much much greater velocity). I' ve shuddered deer with 7mms, then they fall, but at similar practical hunting ranges, the .45-70 bullet knocks them over, it really is like they got hit by a truck.

Energy transfer in big bullets is also much better, since they are much wider. I shoot very hard bullets in my .45-70, and they don' t deform much goin through a deer, and I can usually eat right up to the hole unless I hit the shoulder, where as with 7mm' s I used medium construction bullets that did a lot of damage and didn' t kill as quickly. The hole is big enough in itself that it doesn' t need a drastically expanded wound tract to make a quick kill, while with light bullets too hard of bullet/too small of wound tract would leave a lung shot deer to run a half mile.