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<blockquote data-quote="CNY Yote Hunter" data-source="post: 1766636" data-attributes="member: 109650"><p>I started a thread a few weeks or so ago about" bigger is better truth or theory". Main reason I started that thread was because of situations such as this one. 7mm vs deer and not good results goes right in line with what I have seen in my experience. Seems the caliber for animal has a lot to do with the drt kills, 7mm vs any deer is going to win period but is it the best choice or to much gun? A slower caliber 7mm like the 7mm08 has far better drt results then the 7mm rem has on any deer sized game if shot in the boiler room. A lot of good posts in that thread about this subject and a lot of different opinions but most of them lead to the right caliber for animal above all else. There are videos of guys shooting deer with 50bmg's and the deer run off after good hits, then there are videos of people taking elk at 600 plus yards with a 243 and they drop like a ton of bricks.... I wonder if it's not a projectile issue but rather an issue of to fast a round for the animals body to do what intended to do. If it was a slower round maybe it would have never made it into the guts, probably wouldnt have left the boiler room at all or maybe it still would have.... as for the eldx I have shot deer with the 6.5 creedmoor 143 eldx and had 1 drt and 1 run 40 yards. 6mm creedmoor 103 eldx all 3 have been drt so I trust the projectile so far...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CNY Yote Hunter, post: 1766636, member: 109650"] I started a thread a few weeks or so ago about" bigger is better truth or theory". Main reason I started that thread was because of situations such as this one. 7mm vs deer and not good results goes right in line with what I have seen in my experience. Seems the caliber for animal has a lot to do with the drt kills, 7mm vs any deer is going to win period but is it the best choice or to much gun? A slower caliber 7mm like the 7mm08 has far better drt results then the 7mm rem has on any deer sized game if shot in the boiler room. A lot of good posts in that thread about this subject and a lot of different opinions but most of them lead to the right caliber for animal above all else. There are videos of guys shooting deer with 50bmg's and the deer run off after good hits, then there are videos of people taking elk at 600 plus yards with a 243 and they drop like a ton of bricks.... I wonder if it's not a projectile issue but rather an issue of to fast a round for the animals body to do what intended to do. If it was a slower round maybe it would have never made it into the guts, probably wouldnt have left the boiler room at all or maybe it still would have.... as for the eldx I have shot deer with the 6.5 creedmoor 143 eldx and had 1 drt and 1 run 40 yards. 6mm creedmoor 103 eldx all 3 have been drt so I trust the projectile so far... [/QUOTE]
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