ORIGINAL: bbbagman
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.
Since none of my deer made 50 yards after being shot no tracking was necessary,therefore an exit wound would have been no benefit at all even though the majority of my bullets did exit.You are judging a bullet based on a single deer while I am judging the bullet on the results of about three dozen deer.Which do you think is more credible?
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
Winchester does not load my ammunition.I do and I have chronographed my loads at 3500 fps as I have previously stated.Whatvelocity does your chronograph show the 130gr ballistic tips coming out of your rifle at?If you are using factory winchester loads the posted velocity is 3275fps.Even if you are acheiving that in your rifle,which youwill never know without the use of a chronograph,that is still 225fps slower than the velocity that my loads produce in my rifles.