For many years, I was a disciple of the Roy Weatherby school of lighter bullet and high velocity. Then I started easily killing my deer with a low velocity round ball fired from a flintlock. Given equal shot placement, the deer were dropping just as fast, if not faster than those I shot with high velocity cartridges.
I looked at the ballistics of my anemic .50 cal round ball. It just didn't make sense. There was no reason that something with less K.E. than the mild .30-30 should kill with such authority, but it did... over and over and over. With the .35 Rem, I don't know that a .050" increase in caliber means all that much to killing game, but the extra weight certainly gives better penetration. My current centerfire deer rifle is a .45-70, and the .50 cal. flintlock is still my favorite.
