Not at all. Funny you would mention that. JD338's spouse joined us for the hunt. She put 2 very nice pigs down. She was using her 7mm-08 with 140 Partitions at 2750-2800 fps or so. We got videos of both shots. Talk about hammers! Behind the shoulder shots.
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In whitetail country either would work just fine. I would go with the one that yields best accuracy in your rifle. JD338 and I were just in Texas last weekend for a pig hunt. All shots were under 100 yards. He was using his 6.5 WBY RPM with the 140 Solid base bullet at over 3K fps...
The main problem, other than normal aging eyes, is finding a target that works for me at 100 yards.
Truth is I have good days with the eyes and bad days.
I have shot sub MOA groups at 100 yards with some of these and have repeated the results at 50 yards to ensure it is not a fluke.
Now, 50...
I do NOT like them. They definitely have a fanbase and that is ok with me. I have used them and they were....OK. I have seen inconsistencies as noted by Ernie.
Never liked the whole "1-3 inches of penetration and them grenade" philosophy. I like my bullets to stay together and I prefer...
I have a few levers that can not accommodate scopes. Open sights are the only option on these rifles. Mainly they are:
Sharps 45-70..not worried about this one too much...vernier rear/bunch of front sight inserts
Win 1886 45-90
Browning 348 Win
Win 1873 44-40
Win 1895 405 Win.
All of these...
I played with many of them. My most direct route to success was CFE223 and Ramshot TAC with the 200 gr TTSX . 61 gr TAC is good for 2850 fps and well under sub MOA
65 gr CFE 223 about 2700 + and again sub-MOA. Both are started by the WIN Large Rifle primer, but a mag cap would not hurt either.