ORIGINAL: sabotloader
lemoyne
Another 2 cents... so I am up to four cents...
At the velocities that we are shooting ML bullets I really like the HP bullet. I shoot Nosler 260 grain HP's for deer (whitetail/muleys) and a 300 grain Protected Point (essentually aflat point)for Elk. I have shot a couple of deer with the 300 and it passes right through - creates a wound channel and the deer is deer is dead - he/she is just not sure of it yet.... and will do the really quick low to the ground run until they are dead.. Now with the 260 the petals open up almost immediately open hitting the skin - now as that thing passes through it creats one heck of a hydrosatic shock - the vitals are mushed - red jelly... again the deer is dead but this time the deer knows on the spot something is drasticallywrong (this is real shock) - so wrong it can not even muster up the adrennalin (sp) to get much of a run.
All of this is theory because I have never recovered a Nosler - in factI don't think I have ever recovered one from a centerfire harvest either.
HP's really work for me but in fact so do soft points - I just use the measure of internal damage as the deciding factor.
Sabotloader/Mike
Here is a 300g Nosler HG JPP taken from a 6 point buck shot in the front thru the brisket at 40 yards. The bullet travel all the way to the end of the buck and I found it between his legs when I started to gut him. It lost 0 weight and was a perfect mushroom---a "thing of beauty". The chest cavity was jelly. Your right, they shoot thrudeer if you hit them in the ribs, leaving a good blood trail and the internal parts are jelly. As for terminal performance, the Noslerscan't be beat.
Chap Gleason Va
