i've shot deer and hogsat ranges of 20 yards to 192 yards with the 250 grain SST/Shockwave: The vast majority of those kills were bang flops. Never had an animal get away. Never had to trail a deer or hogshot with an SST/Shockwave either. A couple of animals were down but needed a coup de grace so they did not suffer any more than necessary.
About half of myshots on deer and the vast majority of my shotson hogs with the SST/Shockwave do not exit. That tells me that they are expanding. I know that at least somethat exited expanded on90-120pound deer that were hit behind the shoulderbecause of the size of the exit hole.
One guy says they blow up on a very thin shoulder bone and another says they fully penetrate the animal without expanding. The search for the elusive bullet that will turn a gut shot into a bang flop 100 percent of the time continues. When you find it let me know so i can buy some. My record of gut shots this year is unenviable. But then i did recover them all.
