I' ve heard accounts from many of the local hunters around here that 105gr bullets don' t stabilize well for them, which is typical when you go putting " heavy for caliber" bullets in any cartridge, the rifling rate is designed to give optimum performance with a specific region of weights in mind, so when something new comes along, it performs poorly, I heard many accounts (or should I say got many complaints) of bullets completely key-holing, as perfect as they could be. One zealous hunter claimed that his bullets were impacting backwards, but I failed to discover how he was certain of that.

As much as I hate to say it, as I don' t feel comfortable sending anything less than 100grs after deer, 95gr bullets typically perform the best, in accuracy and penetration/expansion performance. (I' m a firm believer that you should send bullets 2/3 the average weight of the deer species in #, in grains, i.e. 150# deer=100gr bullet, 220# deer=145-150gr bullet, only problem is when you get up into thousand pound range Elk/moose, there aren' t many 600gr bullets available for 30cals , which are perfectly capable of taking this game. 45cals come close, but they' re usually reserved for 2000#animals.)