re: Small caliber deer rifle recommendations?

I've always wondered if you actually start to loose effectiveness on light game with big arse guns.

The idea is to chrono the bullet going in and coming out of ~12" of gel and seeing how much energy it puts into the gel vs how much it brings out of the other side. I'm thinking that at some point (just guessing around a 150gr .30-06) you'll start to taper off exponentially in the amount of energy you're putting on target and just drastically increase the amount you're sending out of the other side.

Now obviously there's tons of variables to consider like bone and shite, but I'm just curious. With standard loads there never seems to be a whole lot of difference than a deer shot with a 150gr .30-06 and a 150gr .300 mag to me. Both are always pretty much fricked up.

I haven't done a whole lot of thinking on the details, but I am very curious about the big magnum's effectiveness on something itty bitty like deer.

Just realized that's shitty wording. Theory is that the amount of energy a .300mag puts in a deer is marginally more than say a .3006

I am by no means saying it's less