ORIGINAL: zrexpilot
ORIGINAL: Virginia7
As noted, can be messy, and certainly not the preferred shot, but what works?
270Win. with 150gr. Rem. Core-Lokts.
308Win., again with 150gr. Rem. Core-Lokts.
What doesn't work? 243Win. - not enough bullet weight for proper penetration. Core/jacket seperations don't help matters either.
Try a different lure, you aint had a bite in about a week.
Not meant as a "lure". Just citing it as it was once tried, and did not work well with the 243Win. Never did find the jacket, but the
bullet core was found in the paunch. After the antelope turned a little, a second shot in the lungs finished it off.
Another time, involving a spike buck mule deer at a range of approx. 125yds., the jacket/core again seperated. This involved a head-on/facing shot. The shot was about perfectly placed into the
neck, and one lung was hit/destroyed. As the buck was approached it attempted to stand up, and it was finished off with several shots from my S&W Mod.57 (41mag.). But, the point is that the bullet did not do its' job well, and penetration was poor.
As DM noted,
...Idon't care to carry a gun/load that won't shoot end to end of the animial i'm hunting for....
For deer size game there's really no excuse not to adhere to this principle, and so I prefer the such as the 270Win. and/or the 308Win.
No more "varmint" guns for deer (ie; 243Win.) 