I' ve used them for years, and I' ve enjoyed them a lot, especially when they let me drop a 217# fat gal out there at 383yrds with factory ammo. BUT, then I shot a doe at 45yrds last season, hit her behind the shoulder so hard that she rolled over, then got up and ran, and ran, and ran, we never found a blood trail after a whole day of searching (four of us), but a buddy of mine said he heard a shot about the time I figured I had hit her, then about 5min later he said a limping doe covered in blood came trotting at a pretty good clip through his area, he downed her just to put her out of her misery. I posted on here at the time, and got a lot of similar stories from others, the bullets will pop like balloons upon impact, making a great big flesh wound on the surface, but strangely they won' t drop blood for a long way. Like I said, I love them, they' re great rounds, but oddly enough, you have to keep your shots at around 100yrds, no less than 55-60 would be my minimum (as I' ve taken deer with them at 60yrds with good results, but LOTS of bullet fragments in the meat). Out there where their velocity drops around 2250-2500, they' re great, but when you' re close to 2750-3K, you' re throwing an egg at a brick wall. In a .308, you' ll be about the same as my .30-06' s, but a little less, so maybe you' d never take a shot that short that it would explode on you?

At ranges of 200-400yrds, they' ve given me awesome results, doing about the same damage as a typical soft point at 75-100yrds, at 100yrds, the BALI-SILVERS aren' t doing a terrible amount of damage, but I like to hit the shoulder, so they get broken up and stopped before they destroy too much meat, the exit wound is sometimes only as large as the entry. I' ve gone back to Win. Super-X silvertips for factory loading on deer, they' re not quite as accurate down range (ok, not nearly), but they give me good results, I' ve just stopped taking those long range shots that I used to love, saves me the walk and the drag, since I' m usually between the deer and my truck.

They should really call it what it is, it' s not a deer cartridge, it' s a varminter bullet that' s a little too hard, so instead of scrapping the project on such an accurate round, they call it a long range deer cartridge, which it does like no other!