Here is a buck I killed last night with the Parker Ballistic Exterme 275g. They were the 2nd most accurate bullet in my gun (TC SW was most accurate). I was hoping for pass thrus with this bullet on deer, and that has happened on smaller does and broadside shots, but this shot was quarting away. I was hunting about 50 yards from the top of a mountain (actully a hill to you western guys) and had been in my stand about 1 hour. There was a doe feeding about 75 yards away in some thick stuff, but a shot never presented itself. I was watching the doe when all of a sudden this buck somesrunning over the top of the hill andmoving quicklydown a trail about 50 or 60yards froom me. I take my safe off, and whisle trying to get him to stop, he keeps on going, not hearing me. I see an opeing up in front of him and hold in the opening, when he gets into the opening I shoot. He takes 1 step and falls overtwitches just a second and is dead---boom flop.It took about 10 seconds for this whole shot sequence to play out it was so so fast; no time to think just shoulder the gun and react. The other deer 75 yards away never looks up and keeps onfeeding. I load back up, hoping to get a shot at thatdeer (we can take two per day in Va).

I hit the buck on the his left hand side, back in the liver area, the bullet took out a lung and the top of his heart, broke a rib, there was no exit hole so it must be under the hide in front of the right leg. I asked thebutcher to keep the bullet for me if he finds it.

Here is the load I was shooting:

Savage 10ML2 smokeless muzzleloader
44g 5744 powder (a powder recommended by Savage), 44g is recommended load for 250 and 300g bullet
Parker Ballistic Extreme 275g bullet (a .450 diameter bullet--several guys shoot this sabotless in their 45 caliber smokeless SMI custom MLers)
I throw away the PBE supplied sabot and use an MMP HPH12 sabot, just the right tightness in my bore
(I have had misfires with the supplied sabot, very loose in my bore)
Winchester primer

I know my Nosler 300g Protected Points would have exited the deer, but I can't complain on the terminal performance of the bullet. The inside of the chest cavity was jello, as it was on a couple of doe that I have shot with this bullet. There was no bone hit, although I didshoot a large doe in the front shoulder at 50 yards quarteriing to me last Friday just to see what this bullet would do and it went thru the shoulder into the chest cavity took of the top of the heart and exited on the RHS of the deer. The deer ran about 20 yards in a big circle and fell over dead. Excellent terminal performance. I really want to see a mushroom of these bullet, will check with my butcher.

Chap Gleason