Hey guys,
Some recovered bullets for you to see. The ones on the left are 250 grain shockwaves. The one on the right is a 295 grain power belt. Both the shockwaves were fromdeer at around 100 yards. The bullet on the extreme left was actually head on, head down feeding. The bullet went in between the shoulder blades, through the spine, through the vitals and came to rest under the skin on a buttcheak. The second shockwave went in just behind the shoulder and came to rest under the skin on the opposite buttcheak on a 180# buck. over 90% weight retention in both, but the spine shot took allot of damage to the front of the bullet. The other was a very nice mushroom. I shoot 110 grains of 777 and it is a great load in my encore.
The power belt, from a deer killed with my kids gun, well it just exploded. Normally, we shoot 300 grain Hornady XTPs inmy kidsgun, but we had run out and there weren't any locally. The PBs shoot pretty much the same poi inside 100 yards.I had sworn offPBs because of similar experiences two years ago, but figured with low power loads in my kids gun it would be ok. Not. 75 grains of 777 and the deer was broadside at 50 yards. Bullet went inbetween the ribs, exploded into three big pieces. Two made it all the way through, one, the base stopped just under the skin on the other side. Left bits and pieced of brass and lead all the way through. Same thing I saw two years ago. Needless to say, were back to the XTPs for my kids gun.