>>64155708
I like this guy's line of thinking and I'll expand on how it applies well here
I've hunted with lots of different calibers and used to make custom gun in all sorts of new hotness calibers that were sold in the 5k-15k range and I have completed in competitive shooting and placed near the top pretty much every time
.300 Bo has marginal performance in subsonics in my experience and marginal performance in supersonics at any realistic hunting range
My buddy has done the same stuff as me and ran into the same issues and of course bad shot placements are the cause but if you have to have good shot placements isn't that the same argument most people use to discount pistol rounds
I had a scope lose zero on a 30-06 but shot at a bobcat too dark to see the cross hairs anyway bad shot hit the hips completely obliterated them and I got it anyway had to walk into some brush as thick as Vietnam without a flashlight and the thing hissing at me but it made it 10 feet from where it got shot
I've hit several javelina with .300 blackout subs and supers one also in the hips and with one exception where it got hit right in the brain they've never gone down easy with it me and my buddy both shot a deer simultaneously with .300 subs and then trailed it for miles
Might have had better luck with the fancy high dollar ammo might have had better luck with actual sights instead of just a cheap laser and night vision
but the point is I've been overjoyed at being able to poach something out of someone's backyard without them knowing with it been less enthusiastic about the effects hence why now that I have money I haven't gone back and used high dollar ammo and real sights
Take all that fwiw not exactly scientific data and there isn't much of a control group since I usually have good shot placements since I usually have actual sights
