This will be my fourth deer with the SST. Until now, I have been unable to recover the bullet - but damage to the four deer I have harvested has been considerable up to this point (extreme damage is probbably a better term). Today I was overlooking a large field next to a swamp - I could see out past 400 yds and spotted a large bodied 6pt at 330yds. I watched him for about 45 minutes as he drew closer and closer, feeding on grasses as he drew near. I was elevated in a tripod at 14', and being this was to be my last hunt of the season, I had made my mind up that if he presented me with a good 150 yd shot, I would take it (I had been practicing at 150 and was dead-on (3" groups). Well - instead of continuing on his path, he decided to swim one of the ponds in the swamp, and stood up on a small island no bigger than 5 yds long. When I ranged him - he was 193 yds and sitting there just as still as a 3-d target. Since there was very little wind (5mph) and it was in my face, I decided to hold just over the top of his back - about 3 inches. When the bullet hit him - he dropped like I hit him with a truck - not a step!! Little did I know that I had spined him just above the shoulders. When I realized what I had done - I immediately loaded my second shot (295g PB - HP) and walked to within 50 yds, and euthanized him. Upon cleaning him, the bullet was found lodged in his opposite side, just under the skin. It had completely obliterated the vertebrae above his shoulders. The bullet was in a perfect mushroom - after shattering heavy bone! The load was - 250g shockwave (.50 cal). 90g T7 FFG out of my Optima. What suprised me the most was the trajectory. I expected that bullet to drop at least 4" more than it did. These things shoot flat - and hit hard! Kudos to Hornandy for this projectile.