ORIGINAL: frontier gander
powerbelts should only be used on 80lb doe? thats horse crap. I shot a 130+ lb doe last year at 148 yards and that sucker dropped in her tracks with a 245 grain powerbelt right through both lungs.
Amen, you made a perfect rib shot, the PBs don't disintegrate on rib shots, they disintegrate on bone shots in the shoulder. Therefore since nobody can guarantee their shot 100% into a larger deer one should logically either
1) only shoot small deer (<=80 lbs) ----you can break the bone on a small deer, they are fragile
2) shoot a better bullet that holds together in bone.
Chap Gleason