7Ultra,
Quite teh opposite in fact, at the velocities you will be driving it at, it will do less damage then say a 270 driving a 130 gr Ballistic Tip to 3100 fps.
IT will expand well, and controled at those velocities and on this size game.
IF your looking for the least amount of meat damage, a heavy, moderate velocity big bore is very hard to beat.
This is why I use Heavy hard cast bullets in my big bore revolvers I hunt with, they got a reputation of being able to eat right up to the bullet hole and this is pretty much true.
The 338 with the 250 CL will do mor edamage then this but it will do less damage then faster more conventional deer rounds and bullets.
Most think these large bores will totally destroy deer, this could not be farther from the trueth.
An example of this was an young hunter that came into the shop wanting to know what he could use for deer hunting as well as coyote hunting that would not destroy pelts.
He had a 280 Rem that he was loading the 120 gr Ballistic Tip to about 3300 fps in. He said it had worked well on deer but would totally destroy a pelt on a yote.
I asked him what ranges he hunted at and he said everything is under 300 yards so I grabbed a box of 150 gr Paritions and told him try a certain load and see how they work.
He came in to teh shop after the season and said they performed great. He had a picture of a very nice 4x5 whitetail and also several pictures of nice yotes he had sniped while onthe deer stand.
The Partition actually performed better on the deer producing much less tissure bruising and on the dogs, generally produced only quarter sized exit wounds unless he hit the off side shoulder and then all bets were off.
I told him for a 280 used on yote, this was not all that bad, he agreed.
It is the same thing with you only scaled up.
Good Shooting!!!!
Kirby Allen(50)