Let me expand a little bit on my previous comments. I hunt from a stand and 99% of the deer I shoot are brousing around and never have a clue they're being hunted. I'm very selective about the shots I take. I always, and I mean always, go for a broadside shot through the ribs so as to minimize meat loss. The situation I described was no exception, it was a perfect broadside shot behind the shoulder.

I have shot numerous deer with the .300 Wby, most at 50 yards and less. The Scirocco was the first bullet I've used in this rifle that has failed to exit. I've used Nosler Partitions and Ballistic Tips, Hornady SSTs and Interlocks, Speer Grand Slams, North Forks and so on, and all of these produced straight wound channels and exited when placed behind the shoulder.

I don't consider the performance I achieved with the Scirocco a failure and never said so. It probably did exactly what it was designed to do. The .300 Wby demands a lot from a bullet and quite frankly I'm surprised by the results I've gotten from some of the other bullets so far. If all you're interested in is putting the deer on the ground, then the Scirocco will do that, no question about it. But in my limited experience with it so far, at high velocity it peels back farther than I would like for it to.

It's not my intention to dissuade anyone from using this bullet. I'm just trying to provide some objective information, so people might know what to expect when using it in a high velocity application. I'll probably keep using it some myself. I'd prefer it to retain more of it's shank, but I can't complain about the accuracy I'm getting and the way it poleaxes deer.