My harvest with a ballistic tip

mossy33oak · 11-09-2006, 07:31 PM

well, I know the debate on here has been quite controversial with ballistic tips and hunting so I thought Id share my story. I hunted Minnesota's opening day of rifle season this past Sat and harvested an impressive (for me anyway) 235 lb whitetail. I did not have the perfect broadside standing still shot we all like to have but I still made a lethal shot that dropped him where he stood. I've heard all the stories about "Ballistic tips fragment too easy" yada yada yada. Well I found out first hand that you can shoot a 200+ lb deer in the shoulder quartering to you and still drive the bullet down through the vitals, and exit near the last rib on the other side. I understand that some people may have gotten a "bad" bullet but to say "ALL" ballistic tips will not perform on deer sized game IMHO has been disproved. I shot this deer with my 7mm Rem mag with 140 gr Nosler BT, and 66.5 gr of RL 22 at 161 yards

ruger357w · 11-09-2006, 07:51 PM

nice lookin deer. congrats.

Duckbutter48 · 11-09-2006, 08:17 PM

You killed that without a bonded core bullet???? Impossible.

Nice deer.

dmurphy317 · 11-09-2006, 08:31 PM

They also will blow right through a 500 pound cow elk at 200 yards. Not sure about closer in. I like the performance of the 140BT in my 7mm RM. Goes right through even on a spine shot. No deer I've shot with them have gone more that about 3 feet, straight down.

stubblejumper · 11-09-2006, 10:40 PM

I still use the 140gr ballistic tip out of my 7mmstws for deer sized game.Around 30 head taken and not one animal covered 50 yards after being hit.Most drop on the spot or within a few yards.Even when launched at 3500fps,most bullet exit.

handloader1 · 11-10-2006, 11:04 PM

Congratulations on your deer kill!!

pahntr760 · 11-11-2006, 12:31 AM

Those Brow Tines are LONG!

HighDesertWolf · 11-11-2006, 04:04 AM

awesome deer dude!!!! theres no doubt a ballistic tip will kill them dead. two deer ive taken one year I shot with BT's (168 grain CT ballistic ST's winchester loads in 308 win) dropped them on the spot and the rounds did leave exit wounds, just IMO the ballistic tips tear up tomuch meat atleast thats how I felt about the two I shot with bt's but... they both were fairly close range too both were shot at less than 75 yards. I think at further ranges the bullets would have held together better

fornra@yahoo.com · 11-12-2006, 06:42 PM

I have used them, but I found other brands were more accurate, nice deer man!!

James B · 11-12-2006, 06:55 PM

AAWWW! come on now Mossy, you know those BT always blow up and don't even ruffle the hair. You must have faked it or that good lookin deer was a tagged road kill.