I know that a lot of people warn that the PowerBelt is an ineffective hunting round. Personally I have no experience to judge it by. But I do think or at least reason.. that a projectile that heavy shot with 80 grains, should be deadly if the projectile is placed in the right spot. And someday I am going to prove it.
I sure understand your thinking
Cayugad. It just seems like that 348 grain chunk of lead has to be effective.
I have no experience with Powerbelts either. I've stayed away from them because of all the various bullets I've seen reports on, PBs had the highest negatives by far. The problem is - I don't recall whether those reports were just with the lighter weight PBs, or included the heavy weights. I kind of suspect the problems were with the lighter ones only, and probably with stiff loads (we all know that old issue).
That group of yours is mighty impressive. But for hunting, I have to wonder if I would rather be shooting a 348 grain PB that gives me one-inch 100 yard groups, or a 300 grain Deep Curl or XTP that gives me two-and-a-half inch 100 yard groups. The PBs will
probably do fine. The DCs/XTPs will
absolutely do fine.