ORIGINAL: gleason.chapman
ORIGINAL: gt2003
What are your usual shooting distances? Mine are pretty much 75 yards maximum. They have been a great bullet for me. I too have shot them through shoulders and they held together. I also like the fact that I don't have to shoot a magnum charge. I only shoot 80 grains of 777 and a 220 grain dead center with excellent results. Every deer I have shot with them has either fallen immediately or run at the most 30-40 yards. So, I'll keep shooting them. The price is well worth it to me since I know I can count on them for excellent performance on game. Now, if I shot a lot, like most of you, I would definitely look for a less expensive bullet to "plink" with. Here is a picture of a few recovered from deer. The bullet on the left was shot almost straight down through a buck at about 15-20 feet and it held together even at such a close range. Search recent posts and you'll find a lot more threads on the bullet.
What is the weight of the bullet on the left? It was 220g starting out, that close a shot it doesn't look like it fragmented, but held together and wrapped around itself.
Chap
Chap, I don't know the weight of the bullet. But, you are correct, at such a close range it pretty much wrapped around itself and did not appear to fragment at all.
I have also noticed with the dead centers that when they are shot at ranges of over 30 yards, they do not pancake as much as they appear to in the pictures. They actually maintain about 1/2 of their shank while the front 1/2 of the bullet kind of piles up on itself and spreads out to a certain extent versus pancaking out flat (like the bullet on the left). I would expect even better performance and likely deeper penetration when these bullets are shot at longer differences. Thoughts?