Aside from accuracy & some rifles are easily up to this task my concern works out to be impact velocity at your personal intended max limit. Question we need to be answering is will your bullet choice expand adiquitly at the retained velocity of 500 yards in the case of LRG's stated upper limit.
Personally Id feel better in a few respects with more gun if I shot the more gun equal or better at the 500 yards. Id be giving the 6mm Creedmoor or 6.5 Creedmoor serious consideration for mule deer over 450 yards. Again you still are needing ammo with a bullet that is up to your task of expanding at lower velocities experienced at those distances.
If you are not practicing at those distances perhaps you should not be hunting at those distances either. If you are practicing at those distances Id encourage you to set up a series of 6 milk jugs or similar sized containers and attempt to test and catch your bullet in a milk jug. That milk jug is about the size of the vitals or your Mule deer.
If you are able to reliably punch those milk jugs at 500 yards and the bullet performance (expansion) is on the order of doubling the diameter. Then Id say go kill your mule deer. If not then changes need to be made to Either your ammo, firearm or upper limits. Just my honest opinion.
As for factory ammo it looks like you are falling below a preferred 1000 ft lb threshhold over 400 yards. https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle...-hunter#!/
Personally Id feel better in a few respects with more gun if I shot the more gun equal or better at the 500 yards. Id be giving the 6mm Creedmoor or 6.5 Creedmoor serious consideration for mule deer over 450 yards. Again you still are needing ammo with a bullet that is up to your task of expanding at lower velocities experienced at those distances.
If you are not practicing at those distances perhaps you should not be hunting at those distances either. If you are practicing at those distances Id encourage you to set up a series of 6 milk jugs or similar sized containers and attempt to test and catch your bullet in a milk jug. That milk jug is about the size of the vitals or your Mule deer.
If you are able to reliably punch those milk jugs at 500 yards and the bullet performance (expansion) is on the order of doubling the diameter. Then Id say go kill your mule deer. If not then changes need to be made to Either your ammo, firearm or upper limits. Just my honest opinion.
As for factory ammo it looks like you are falling below a preferred 1000 ft lb threshhold over 400 yards. https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle...-hunter#!/