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Originally Posted by Kurt505

That article just confirms what I've been saying, it's more about bullet design than the size of gun. Key points are rate of expansion, size of wound channel, and penetration. All these things are being addressed with modern bullets. Heavy for caliber bullets, like a 147gr 6.5 or a 175gr 7mm, like the new ELD-X. These bullets have a wide range of actual performance speed, and because they are long, have longer pedals which give them a wider (per caliber) frontal area when they expand.

Calibers originally designed to be whiz bangs, shooting heavy for caliber projectiles with proper design is what I'm talking about. They are traveling slower but the long bullets with high BC's carry their effective performance out to long ranges.

I assume the criteria you mention above is what you used when you chose the 6.5 over the .35 Whelen in the original scenario that was posted near the top of this thread .. or am I misreading ?