I had a .270 Win. sighted in to shoot 130 grain balistic tips. My deer allways ran off. Now when I went to 30-06 & then on to .300 wsm they droped on the spot, or atleast did not leave my sight.
My .270 consistently did all its damage in between the ribs out to maybe the first lungs entrance side. The rest was just a puncture hole. almost any center fire can poke a hole through a deer when you don't count in the range. Even a .223 will do that. And any round will do if you do not look at WHERE the expantion happens.
I consider a round to be good enough for deer when the bullets will expand in the MIDDLE of the chest cavity not the entrance wound side that is where you really make the kill.
P.S. What I said about the differences between the WIN. WSM & wssm are correct, there is no reason to upgrade to one of them unless you are a re loader, then it makes sense to go to the WSSM's
Last edited by Switchback_XT; 07-13-2009 at 10:39 PM.
Reason: added P.S.