A buddy of mine is going to hunt with us for the fist time, He has is fathers 300 win mag that was given to him so he wants to hunt with it. We hunt in North Eastern Alabama and not hardly ever a long shot. What i want to know is there a good round for it that is scaled down so it wont be overkill? Thanks

Possibly managed recoil loads? Plenty of power for close range and the benefit of less recoil.

There is no such thing as overkill. Dead is dead.

Honestly any of the regular factory loads will give him what he wants with out the hassle of trying to find possibly scarce ammo. Let him hunt with it and just use a load that the gun and the shooter shoot well.

If you still want lower velocity loads Remington makes a managed recoil load with 150 grain core lokts and is loaded 'down' to about 2650fps but why bother cause this is much more gun than is needed on deer also. But like I said it will not be available everywhere like the standard stuff is.

Managed recoil is very popular around Mid-Missouri, currently our Basspro is selling it cheaper than most of the regular ammo. Which makes sense since it uses less powder, but other stores have it marked way up.

overkill = less meat after the shot.
Deer here are about 130 lbs average for Doe's and 150 to q 160lbs. He has no experience at hunting deer and will prob not get to shoot one but if he does get a chance he wants to have enough left to process

I wouldn't worry about. I hunt the thick woods in northcentral PA where a long shot is 100-150 yds. Plenty of people using 7mm mags. A 150-165 gr factory load will do just fine if using a standard construction bullet like a corelokt or interlok.

Thanks for yall insight. I have never even been around a 300 win mag and when he showed me the bullet I asked if he was going on a safari.

Actually the30-06 and 300winmag use the same sized bullets.The 300winmag simply uses a case with morepowder capacity to produce more velocity.

Only if you use bullets that are very fragile. A factory loaded 300 Win mag cartridge isn't really all that fast of a cartridge.

A .270 Winchester (considered by many to be the perfect deer cartridge) launches its bullets just as fast as a 300 Win mag. The differance is that the 300's bullets are more heavily constructed and will expand at a slightly slower rate than a .270 bullet.

Basically the heavier and larger the bullet the less 'explosive' it becomes and the less meat damage it will do, assuming the same bullet design and same velocity.

Barnes X and Barnes TSX bullets produce a lot less bloodshot meat than conventional lead core bullets. Got to be careful about pass-throughs, though.