Ohio has finally legalized all straight walled cartridges 357 to 50 cal for deer hunting. This makes using an AR in 50 Beowulf now a legal possibility! If I were trying to take deer out to 300 yards with the Beowulf, would I be better suited with a heavy (350-400+ grains) wide meplat bullet moving slower, or an HP moving a little faster? My thinking is that the hard cast flat point, even at 300 yards moving about 1000 FPS, would be a better killer than a lighter HP moving about 1100 fps at the same distance. Does anyone have any experience to support or disprove that?
Lets skip the conversation about whether I can hit a deer's vitals at that range, or what the drop is on that bullet. I practice a lot, and I'm using an AR with a good scope. Drop is only 4.5-6 mils at 300 yards, so lets assume I can hit it.
Thanks for the input!