Winchester 94 and the 30-30??

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Any way you put it, you're correct, I think. If I were to guess, I'd say the 170 outsells the 150 about 10 to 1 in Canada.
My point was that lots of hunters, in Canada especially, think of the 150 bullet as being just barely heavy enough for a Florida whitetail or something, when really, it will have about the same effect on a deer as the 170. And coincidentally, of the six .30-30's I've owned, four shot noticeably better with the 150, one with the 170, and one is undecided. (Haven't tried the 170 in it). I wasn't being my usual nitpicking self.

You are also correct!
I have shot moose with the 30-06 with 150, 180 and 220 grain bullets. They all killed the moose dead, and dead is dead. However, I got the quickest knockdown and kills with the 150 grain bullets. This, in spite of all you hear about "requiring" heavy bullets for moose.
The 150 grain bullets, however, were an early Barnes, made right after WW2. The bullets were made from copper tubing, which gave a very stiff jacket, that held together, but opened up nice.
One time when I was a lot more interested in killing a moose than I have been almost ever since, I was walking through a forest of large trees when a moose jumped up from his bed in front of me. I saw the antlers as it got up, but with the rifle aimed at him, his head was out of sight. I waited for the head to come into view, but it didn't. So, just before he disappeared, I aimed at his tail and shot.
The rear end just sagged to the ground, with the moose not going thirty feet after the hit. The bullet was the 150 grain Barnes.