Here are my experiance with the bullet. My 30-06 loves the Hornady round and I shoot a 165 grain SST. Out of my rifle (Tikka T3) I can place thre rounds into a hole less than the size of a quarter. The 165 grain is very hard to find but I bought 25 boxes of it so it should last me 10 to 15 years. I am a hunter not a shooter. Performance wise I am extremely happy/unhappy with the bullet.

Happy: Accurate, consistant, and deadly. I have only had 1 hog run more than 10 yards (he went about 25) and 90% of ALL game animals I have shot with this round fall dead in their tracks. It is like a grenade going off in their chest and explodes EVERYTHING in there.

Unhappy: It is like a grenade going off in their chest and explodes EVERYTHING in there. Yep that was a repeat. I mean it does so much damage that you lose a lot of meat sometimes. I just shot a deer last weekend and it was F'ing disgusting to clean. I shot him center chest facing me and it blew his heart in half, ripped his lungs to pieces, liver was smashed to chunks no bigger than a 50 cent piece, and his stomach and guts were so shredded that it blew acorns out his nose. I lost most of both shoulders and his ribs also. This is what happens to hogs also. If you ever gut shoot a hog you know what a pleasure that is to clean. I have also NEVER found a bullet from any animal I have shot with this bullet. I have no freakin clue where it goes.