Originally Posted by
REM7MMAG
my cousin is the one who is trying to get me to go with berger but the buck he shot this year with the vld litteraly blew apart, only a piece of the copper jacket was recovered and no pass threw and that's on a texas hill country buck and there not generally big bodied dear but I guess a guy could chalk that up to high velocities and @ 100 yards with a 300wby mag my guess that long range bullet works better once it slows down at a further range but not sure
that's what bergers are designed to do, penetrate 2 inches then go to pieces, use all theyre retained energy on impact, if you want pass-thru's try the thicker jacketed match bullets (yellow box)
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