bamaranger, your post sorta reads like you're not paying attention.
I don't care how fast a cartridge you pick, they all have some amount of drop. What's important is knowing how much.
For instance, I've been shooting an '06 for sixty years, come July. Back a dozen years ago, I built a 500-yard range here at my house. Now, I always zero for 200 yards. That puts me about six inches low at 300, around two feet low at 400 and about four feet low at 500.
So off to the shooting table I go. The target is a round steel plate, 22" in diameter.
I judged the wind as needing about a foot of daylight off the plate. I guesstimated four feet of holdover. My first shot was six inches low at 6 o'clock. My second shot was one inch low at six o'clock.
Now, that was just a casual deal. And, just a plain-vanilla 3x10 duplex-crosshair scope. I was just curious to see if I could hit the plate at all.
(I later messed around and sighted in for 500. I got two near-center groups of 0.8 MOA and then I called two flyers in a ten-shot string which would up with eight hits in a six-inch group. What the heck, I'd call that adequate. But for some people, my deal is just a starting point.)
Were I a serious beanfield shooter, I'd set up for longer-distance shooting than my day-to-day, casual 200- to 300-yard "gimme" shots.
If you know what you're doing, an '06 is about as good as anything else. Close enough, anyway.
But ya gotta know what you're doing.