Its obvious that .30-06 would have blown a big hole through his neck but there wasn't even an exit wound on the back of his neck according to Candace Owens who saw the video from behind.
Some say it was a flechette or .22lr round from close range.
What seems exceedingly strange to me is that there were dozens of cameras filming the event and not a single one captured a projectile flying through the air.
Something here seems fake and gay. Either the whole thing was staged or they used some advanced direct energy weapon to punch a hole through his neck. Since there is literally no reason to employ advanced Intel agency tech to assassinate this guy, I'm starting to think that this whole thing was faked and Kirk is still alive.
Compare with something like a .223 / 5.56 -- it is designed to wound people. The idea was that you could send more rounds downrange if they weren't so dang heavy and your men could carry more, plus the rifle could be smaller and more manageable, plus you want the enemy to spend all their time and energy treating wounds. A 5.56 hitting somewhere other than center of mass will put a hole in someone but may not kill them. They will stop fighting but they may survive. The 7.62 is a similar story, but they went with a bigger round and it slows down a lot and loses accuracy around 100 yds.
Then compare it with a .22LR which is designed to put small holes in small creatures at a decent range. Yes, you can kill with a .22 if you hit the right spot, and there are a LOT of spots you can hit and get a kill. But there are a lot of spots where the .22 will give you are really, really bad day and a day trip to the ER.
The wound to me looked like a .22.
I am not an expert.
If the picture is to be believed, this is an actual Mauser, in .30-06 (not a Springfield). This means it was made for the consumer market, or if it is actually a military Mauser it was rebarreled into .30-06 (no military Mausers were made in .30-06). So it's probably a Parker-Hale or something like that from the 1970s, etc.
.30-06 will blow an arm off the torso of a human, with "ball ammo" (FMJ = Full Metal Jacket). An exit wound, with .30-06 FMJ, is like 99.9999% _guaranteed_, on a human's neck.
If instead this caliber was truly used and a _modern version_ of .30-06 was used (like a "soft point" or a "HPBT" [Hollow Point Boat Tail]), the cavitation inside the body when the round pierced the skin would have been _massive_. And, an exit wound would be 99.99% likely.
Nothing about the story, as told, makes sense.
Aside from trannies and tranny sympathizers being murderous homosexuals, nothing does make sense about the whole story.