cayugad

Here is my whole story, two weeks at the end of Elk season, I still had a 300 grain .458 Nosler loaded up in my inline. I shot a really nice 4 point whitetail (western count) at probably 10 yards - broadside. I shot behind the front shoulder. Well, the deer was dead, but it did not know it ran a 100 yard circle around me before it fell. Inspection of the deer showed a perfect round 45 caliber between the ribs on the left and a nick of a rib on the right side. I thought about a CSI episode where you could put one of those straight rods right through the animal. Both lungs lungs were punctured. At that distance and velocity and through the thin skin of a whitetail - not impacting a a major bone it really did not have time time to expand... I normally do not shoot the 458's or even a 300 grain bullet at whitetails. I normally shoot 250 HP's either Nosler or Hornady. I hesitate even shooting a Hornady becuase of the possibilty of stripping the lead from the copper or the bullet completly blowing up.. (I know a round ball or a big concical would solve the problem) but I also need the abiltiy to shoot 150 yards also and I want velocity.

All that said if the Gold Dot with a BC of .233 is bonded and has the abilty to stay together (alloy core barrier) it certainly is cheaper than Noslers or Barnes. (50 bullets $11.49). I am hoping to get out maybe this weekend with the chrono and do some accuracy checks at the same time. I also want to shoot some into to a soft sand bank and see if I strip the copper as I do with the Hornadys, of course the Noslers do not have this problem.

The bullet sounds really interesting - but until you shoot it and shoot an animal with it you never really know.

mike