Ah, OK. But you quoted me.
My bud has used a 270 for the last 40+ years and all his loads are the fastest ones he feels he can get away with. I ended up with a couple of boxes of Remington 130gr loads and gave those to him. They are all he has used for deer the last few years because they are more pleasant to shoot than his barn burner 150gr loads. The Remington loads seem to kill deer at 100 yards just as dead as his hot handloads.
And I try to get all the meat off a deer I can get. And that includes the shoulder and even the neck meat. That meat makes good stew and chili meat. If I'm going to kill an animal I owe it to the deer to use as much of the animal as I can.
Unless elk is on the menu I prefer to use 130s in my .270, the 150s really aren't needed for deer, unless trying to slow down the impact velocity.
My issue is, every time I buy a rifle thinking to myself I can 'download' it to be "X", I don't. My 300WM, that could be a 30-06 or a .308win is loaded like a 300WM, my 350RM which could be a 35Rem or a 358 Winchester stays loaded like a 350RM.
Really the only rifles I have two hunting loads for are the 300 and the 350RM, both have deer and elk loads. The others have practice loads just so I'm not putting $1+ bullets into steel plates.
Rather than download something or try to put together an "all around" rifle, I've just ended up buying another rifle. Also a lot of it has to do with how I set the rifles up, longer tubes and higher magnification VS carbines with low power variables. I don't like 22-24" barrels in blinds/stands and I dread dragging them through the woods. I also don't like over-watching row crop fields with something that has the trajectory of a catapult, and the KS wind puts it into the next county. And, you're right, I don't need a 3000+ FPS cartridge to kill a deer at <100 yds, so I use a shorter barreled rifle in a mid-bore caliber with a lower impact velocity. I've got a ready rack of deer rifles tailored to the conditions and expected distances:
Open country/LR 300WM & .270, 24" barrels 2-12x42 ad 3x18x56
Mixed mid range 20" .260Rem & .350RM, (soon to add .308) 2.5-8x36s on both
Woods, still hunting & drives 358Win & 350RM, 19" and 20" 1.25-4X and 2.5-8x36
And the shoulder meat comment was also tongue "N" cheek, I normally double lung everything, unless I'm jumping them, the it's "anything goes"*
* Note: also tongue "N" cheek comment