I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about bullet performance. The issue was I was going to go moose hunting. I've killed two moose in the past and several deer. The last moose I shot was a big one at about 75 yards with a 30-06 firing 180 grain Remington Swift Scirrocco bullets. It was a double lung shot and the moose moved about 50 yards into the brush and died. The bullet penetrated both lungs with severe injury to the lungs and dented, but did not exit the other side of the rib cage. I didn't recover the bullet (wasn't thinking of it at the time). There was plenty of blood trail. Not thick, but I could follow it.

I told my friend I was going to switch to another bullet because I thought the bullet should have exited. He said he thought the bullet performed admirably because it expended all its energy in the animal, the idea being that if it exited powerfully, it had energy remaining which would have been better spent inside the chest.

Anyway, what do you think? I tried a bunch of other premium grade factory loads and ended up sighting in Remington shell with A-Frame slug because it seemed to shoot best. (not any better than the Scirocco though). Unfortunately, I didn't shoot a moose (see my previous post "letting them walk").

OH, I always used plain 180 gr. corelokts on whitetails and they worked great - clean kills if the shot was good. Same behavior on many double lung shot white tails - they go for a ways and die. Some drop. This year I'll use the A-Frames because the gun's sighted for them and I have half a box left.