A lotta folks love them and have excellent results with them, the 300g are better holding together a bit better on close shots. They are accurate as heck in my Savage, best bullet I have ever shot in my life for accuracy, I did NOT use them last year for hunting because of two know problems with them that I am aware of:
1) deer sometimes run 150 yards after being shot with a SW
2) sometimes a SW does not expand, shooting thru the animal with the same size hole in and out.
I hunt a couple of places that at 17acres and 26a next to horse pastures and things like that, seeing a guy trailing a deer thru your horse pasture with a ML in his hands will get me in jail or a tresspass violation, so I need boom flops.

Many guys who shoot them take a high shoulder shot and they get boom flops becasue the SW will open up on the hard bone hit, go into the top of the lungs and then go out the other side, sometimes shooting thru both shoulders (so the bullet is tough). So picture that bullet hitting behind the shoulder thru the lungs and out the ribs in front of the legs. Dead deer, no doubt, but it will run 100 or 150 yards. Would I hunt with then now, yes, absolutely, why? Because I have read enough about them and know how to use them. So take high shoulder shots, if possible, use the 300g bullet. Look at the ballistics gel reports for 250g and 300g here:

http://tinyurl.com/6nz6yu


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Best Wishes,
Chap Gleason