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gigag04 wrote:"Stopping power" - love this terminology.

Whatever caliber I carry, I also give the rounds a good sprinkling of magic fairy dust and a store them near the pelt of maiden unicorn.

45 or 9 make a far superior choice for a duty or defensive round.

That's an interesting ritual, are you able to achieve significant increases in stopping power?
I'm Roman Catholic so I'm not willing to try your technique, but in the interests of ballistic science, I'd be interested in hearing your results!
I've been admitted to the Honorable Order of St. Barbara and have seen the miraculous nature of her "Law" to wit, "The flight of a projectile does not necessarily conform to theoretical predictions."
I've also recently become a devotee of St. Gabriel Possenti, and store my .45acp near an icon of him. While I haven't had a miraculous experience yet, my son, while using some of the Hornaday Z-Max that was also stored near by, assured me that he had eliminated any threat of a Zombie infestation in S.E. Texas.

The Annoyed Man wrote:Some cartridges are forever, because they are just so good. '30.06 is like that.

I wonder if there is a rifleman in the U.S. born before 1970 who hasn't experienced the .30-06 cartridge in some way.
One of the design characteristics of the .30-06 is that it is at the upper limit of recoil energy that most shooters can tolerate. The Ordnance Board had determined through testing, that recoil energy in excess of 20 ft-lb would induce a serious flinch in most soldiers. The formula they worked out, the recoil energy of an 8 pound rifle firing a 165 grain bullet at 2,900 feet per second is 20.1 foot-pounds force, was one of the major factors in the design of the .30-06 cartridge.
The testing though, utilized the average soldier at of turn of the 20th century, 5' 4" 145 lbs. We are on average 5 inches taller and 60 pounds heavier now. I wonder what the results would be of comparable testing now?