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Here is my sons first deer. It was on opening day of general gun on his birthday. Taken w/ 80 grains of Black powder, 45 cal 240 grain XTP@ 17 paces from a small oak tree 6 feet off the ground.
Bullet went in just right of the shoulder socket and disentegrated a rib. WhenI skinned the deer the bullet was between the skin and the outer meat and had skidded downalmost to the hip.After scrubbing the bullet w/ a tooth brush the lead bullet seperated fromthejacket in my hand.
I have it around the house somewhere. I believe my son has in a safe place in a treasure box.

I have taken two other deer w/ that same combo w/ two rifles and the XTP performed great.
After hearing what others have said I will try some gold dots too.
I do have a XTP I found and will post later.
SHills

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That looks like one happy man there. Be sure and tell your sone, congratulations on the nice deer. That XTP must have really done some damage during all its travels...

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Good Job! Congrat's to the young hunter

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Love to see a grin like that on a kids face. Congrats to the young man. I hope that's just the first buck of many to come.

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Makes me think of something I've read, sorry can't recall the author, but it said that 'hunting and fishing are the only true sports, everything else is a game or competition'. Ask this young man if he remembers the first baseball he ever threw or the first basket he ever made and I'll bet he won't, but a dozen years from now ask him if he remembers the first deer he got and he'll likely tell you 'like it was yesterday!'.

Congratulations on a great deer!

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SHills

There has been a lot of deer taken with an XTP... but I would like to show you a problem that has always concerned me about Hornady bullets... even their interlocks...

the lead can separated from the copper... I am not saying it does it all the time but it does it enough to cause me some concern.

This is a picture of 45 cal 300 grain hornadys shot into a saturated clay water bar (dirt bank) @ 100 yards. They were powerd by 100 grains of T7-2f. The Speers were put through the same punishment...

All the Speers stayed together4 of the seven Hornadys stripped the lead from the copper...

Notice the one on the left did not even get a good start on expansion before it stripped....

Shooting a round into water saturated dirt is nothing like shooting animal but it does give some indication of toughness of a bullet... The only other bullet I have tried this with and have it succed were Nosler Partitions....

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Huge amen, wow. Not may young men would start out with a Muzzie, shoot it well and get a buck. Congratulations to your son, and congratulations on your leadership in making him comfortable with the ML so he could bag his first deer on his birthday.I know your very proud of him. Chap Gleason

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Gotta love that million dollar smile :DCongrats!!

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That grin thats what it is all about
Redclub

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i wonder if powder and velocity have something to do with the xtp-s shedding its lead. arent those bullets designed for pistol calibers? i know there a favorite of bear handgun hunters thats how i learned about them. maybe they dont like to fly fast.

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liquidorange

Velocity is the problem when it happens - it doesn't always strip though. If you shoot soft tissue - no big bones the work great.... If you shoot big bones - they still work but just not as well..

They are pistol bullets designed for pistol velocity, but in most cases they work fine...

An example would be the 200 grain 10mm XTP - shooting it from a muzzle loader @ 2400 feet per second is WAY over it designed rate but it works great and I have not heard of any reports that it is stripping the lead from the copper - so go figure????

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Mike, I am asking myself why a 200g bullet wouldn't shed it's jacket but a 260 or a 300g would. I can't believe they would have two different manufacturing processes, that would kill productivity and be very expensive. So why does this happen? Do you have a theory?Would the Hornady Bullet designers know?
Chap Gleason

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There are a number of Hornady XTP bulletsloaded in sabots by variouscompanies. I am not going to mention the lighter 180 and 200 grain XTP bullets.

240 grain .44 cal. XTP
240 grain .44 cal. XTP Mag
300 grain .44 cal. XTP
240 grain .45 cal. XTP-may be a Mag bullet
300 grain .45 cal. XTPMag
Some folks load this one in their sabots.A friend of mine uses it and it is
devastating on deer-it totally blows up.He has killed a couple dozen deer with it nearly all of them have been bang flops.
230 grain .45 caliber XTP

The Mag bullets should not shedtheir cores at normal muzzleloading velocities.

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Thanks guys it means alot to me!
My son was 16 yrs old andI never pushed him to hunt. He finally figured out I was having too much fun bringing home piggies and deer! He picked that spot inthefat little oak tree cause he had that feeling! He enjoyed shooting the single shot and challenge of the front stuffer.
I do believe the move to NY from FL hindered his desire to start because of the major changes cause he was scouting and helping set up stands etc. He and his sister always liked to target shoot, help clean the fish and family camp.

My wife and I are very lucky he was able to be home for Christmas from Okinawa, Japan on combat leave. On News Year Day my son shipped off to Iraq like many others. He is an intel specialist and a Corporal in the US Marine Corp. Yes, I'm a pretty proud father on many levels. He knew exactly what he was doing when he joined and wanted to go protect those who could not do the same for themselves. Sorry for getting off subject.

The following year Jack used my Thunderhawk while I used my brand new Omega. He was hunting my favorite spot and I had seen some monsters during bow season overlooking Canadiauga Lake. Sure'nough the whopper comes out and that Thunderhawk has a 3-9X40 leupold and I had warned him about tree branches and about keeping a spare charge in his outer pocket w/ the ball starter. To make a long story short he hit a 4" branch below his line of sight and the plaque speaks for itself! That is the most important hunting experience he will ever remember beside his first deer.



LiquidO,
That is exactly what the bullet was designed for pistols @ lower velocities! The lower powder charges are really better. I just wanted to point out how close and what exactly that bullet did. Like I said it made one big entrance whole and held together till I skinned that buck and scrubbed that bullet. I look around and could not find it....
Sabotloader,
Yes, W/O a doubt one of the best bullets out there are the /Gold Dots. The most used Law Enforcement round out there IMHO. I sell all the Big Three out of Four. If I carried that would be the round I would want.
The other istheBarnes expanders hunting round that several companies use.
This week end there is a gun show and STEVE-O is looking for a LH flinter!
Just gota try one.
SHills

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alsaqr

The Hornady's in the pic were 300 grain XTP Mags.... now shooting them into wet dirt isn't what they were really ment for but none-the-less the bonded Speers did not do shed their copper..

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Great!!! I shot one this year with 300 grain XTP's and 110 grains powder. It performed excellent as well. I have faith in those bullets.

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Haven't hunted any clay banks, but I can attest that XTPs work GREAT or real deer, esp. if you hit the deer. Here's one taken from deer killed using 90gr RS at about forty yards. Bullet is 240gr .452 XTP, one of those packaged as TC MagExpress.