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That 3000 fps/wound channel deal may be true. I'm not arguing.
But it's also true (and proven with much longer trail of evidence - no pun intended) that a bullet that hits at 2400 to 2600 fps penetrates farther, doesn't fragment and mushrooms fully, thus letting the air out of whatever critter it hit.
All those classic "meat" calibers from the 30-40 Krag up to the 375 H&H launch hefty bullets at moderate speeds - and game just keels over. I think it was the long-gone gun experimenter and writer Harvey Page who called the 220-gr roundnoses for the Krag "blue whistlers" after the huge amount of bare lead at their nose. And they went through big animals like snowplows.
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