Stubblejumper, my shot placement was fine ( dead deer ). The problem was the lack of exit wound left me no way to track the deer through the extremely thick woods. I searched for blood in a pretty large area. Not finding any blood led me to believe I missed the deer. I know your going to say I shoulda aimed and/or hit him some where else, but I didn't. In this case and the other one last year, I feel the ballistic tip let me down. There are others that feel this way too. If all hunters were skilled enough to control shot placement on every deer ( assuming that deer never moved ), then every one would be hunting with 22-250. That's not the real world for most of us mere mortals that use larger calibers.

As far as velocities go. Your 7mmstws 140gr Ballistic Tipaccording to Winchester has roughly a little( 25fps ) more velocity than the 130gr Ballistc Tips i was using. Hardly as you put it ' well above the 270 WSM '