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?
I see a little better what you are asking.
Assuming that the cartridge is adequate to begin with and that the shooter is getting the bullets where they are suppose to go... if I were getting a whole bunch of deer that were running 200 yards after shooting them with a certain cartridge I would change bullets rather than change cartridges as this would be much much more likely to be a bullet not constructed properly for the game being targeted than a cartridge problem. It could be a bullet that is far too tough for light weight game or far to fragile for larger game animals.