re: Small caliber deer rifle recommendations?

I'm not sure if its a valid theory or not. A deer can only provide so much resistance, and resistance is what allows the bullet to transfer energy, so it seems to me like there would be an asymptote if you plotted the amount of energy left in the target for each caliber. At least that's what it's seemed like in my head on plenty of cold mornings

Like I said earlier, there definitely seems to be some tapering off of the amount of damage done by regular hunting loads after the .30-06 and into the belted mags.

After I went to bed last night I started thinking that wet news paper might be a good idea, but it might invalidate my results a little bit because it's "less professional." It's certainly an option though.

I have access to a very large cooler to make plenty of gel, so I don't think that would be too bad.

I have a buddy who hand loads. One thought was to get him to load me a bunch of 150gr .308 loads from pipsqueak to barrel peeling.

Its still very much on the drawing board and not close to happening. Hopefully myth busters reads this and does it for me