ORIGINAL: rather_be_huntin
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From my point of view though if a person can kill one with a bow and arrow, then pretty much any rifle will do.
Uuuummmmmmmmm........I see what you're trying to say there but you're not comparing apples to apples. An arrow and a bullet kill in different manners so you can't bring a bow and arrow to a gun fight.
Arrows kill by hemorrhaging and bullets kill by trama. (Although granted they do sometimeskill by hemorrhaging if the trama doesn't work) But just not the same. I certainly would not agree that because an arrow is effective that any old rifle cartridge will do.
I agree when an arrow enters an animals body it usually cuts a wound channel at least 1 inch in diameter. Where as a small caliber bullet may leave a wound channel 1/2 in diameter but relies on the destructive force of the bullets velocity and extreme energy delivery to kill an animal.
So can you kill a large animal with a small caliber weapon? Yes. Can a larger caliber weapon kill more "efficiently"? Yes. If you don't believe me go out and shoot two 90 lbs. does, one with a .223 one with a 50 bmg and compare the two. Both just as dead as the other but the one shot with the 50 was killed more "efficiently" though not for the table.