Hank

Nice buck - congratulations. Thanks for the Shockwave pics also.

What was the range for these deer and how much powder are you shooting?

I took a couple of deer this year with the Hornady SST 250gr but didn't recover either bullet. Both shots were complete pass-throughs, one behind the shoulder at50 yardsand the other broke the off-side shoulder on the way out from about 100 yards. Nether left much of a blood trail, which is a problem for me in the extreme thick cover I hunt.

I shot a third deer but never found it due to no blood trail. I love the accuracy of these bullets and your pics of the recovered bullets look great, but I'm wondering if I need to be shooting them fasterto get them toopenmore quickly. This season I used 100 grs of 777 pellets.

I am looking at the Hornady XTPs and Speer Gold Dots, which are hollow point bullets, for 2007.