ORIGINAL: cayugad
sisfire - I agree with frontier gander. I think people are pushing some of these powderbelts too hard, and take dead on bone shots. Then they get a splatter sometimes from the powder belt and can not understand why the deer did not drop. I like to aim off the elbow of the front leg and tuck a projectile right behind the bone. Then theprojectile will enter, usually blow out the heart and lungs, maybe pass through, but the deer is walking dead.
I've yet to kill a deer with a powerbelt. They never seem to be around when I am loaded up with that in the rifle. I have done a lot of penetration tests with them. I find them very accuate in the right rifle, and the expansion seems as good or better then some of the other bullets I have tested. I shoot them with 90 grains of Goex 2f.
Thanks to you and Frontier Gander for the information. I'm a heart/lung shotguy too. I figure I got all year to come up with a powder-bullet combination that will suit me well. I told my wife I almost bought this gun from my buddy while I was down at his place for the deer season. She said she'd get for me for a Christmas present so I'm picking it up tomorrow night, then it will get wrapped and have to set under the tree
. I've already picked up a few odds and ends so I'm really looking forward to getting started. Thanks again.