Won't shot placement contribute more than the slight differences between a .264 and .284 bullet moving a few hundred feet per second different from each other? I read about people choosing a more powerful cartridge so they can take more difficult shots to fill a tag, but aren't we running into an ethics question at that point? Really, what kind of difference will a 7Mag have over a .260/7-08 within reasonable hunting ranges? Seems like more blast, recoil and few hundred more fps of velocity. I don't understand why someone would want a magnum for normal hunting ranges.
What I'm trying to say is- if a bullet design and weight is capable of providing necessary penetration and expansion, what good does it do to drive the bullet a few hundred fps faster when it is still impacting within it's expansion/penetration velocity window when fired from a non-magnum cartridge?
Last edited by WoodsQuest; 10-14-2017 at 01:36 PM.