30 .06 tumbler?
Greenhorn to the scene. I am used to shooting a ball 5.56 nato round. this round tumbles very easily. I choked because the deer I was looking at for about 3 minutes was behind several bushes and branches. It was roughly 80m from me, zero wind, light snow and I was prone and my balls froze. I could easily see the kill zones but the brush made me worry about a clean kill. Swamp area is not what I want to drag a 200lbs animal over while crashing thru the ice. Question: how bad does the .06 with a 150gr medium grain round tumble if at all? Next time should I shoot thru the brush? I am an expert shooter by the Marines standards several times over. I am confident in retrospect I should have taken the shot but again, I was worried about draggin the deer, which I could not tell male or female due to the brush, thru knee deep water & making an ethical kill.