Originally Posted by
bigbulls
You are trying waaaaaaaaay to hard to find a correlation between cartridges used and distance an animal may run.
There is no correlation.
Take a .223 Remington and a 300 Win mag. Despite the difference in power and bullet weight and diameter you could shoot 10 different deer with each cartridge and get 10 entirely different results for each. With either cartridge some deer may run 200 yards, some may drop in their tracks, some may trot off and look back at you and just fall over.
Assuming the cartridge you are using is adequate for the game being hunted there is no correlation at all.
Big Bulls - Everyone seems to want to defend their favorite cartridge. Don't get stuck on the cartridges. The coorelation I am actually looking at is between hunters and the cartridges, not between cartridges.
For example, you said some deer run 200 yards when they are shot. I am assuming you meant it can happen, but deer shot with the cartridge would not average 200 yards.
But question I am trying to answer is whether or not you feel it is exceptable for a deer cartridge to average 200 yards for example. What would would you have to see in order to not recomend a cartridge. An average of over 100 yards? Or is anything exceptable?
You see, everyone says they are all the same, but I am getting a variety of results on this thread, so what would you have to see in order to say this is a bad cartridge over that one? Or, are they all just good in this respect?
You don't have to answer that. I am just explaining what I am actually looking for.