I am pretty redundant on what I say about PBs (I don't like them), so I crafted a web page, which I hope is full disclosure and fully informs people on the best selling ML bullet in the USA:

http://www.the-gleasons.com/powerbelt_page.htm

Iwill restrain myself from giving this to Racked bucks and bigger on the forum,'cause most of you already know my feeling on this issue. I do that to fully inform forum >>fawns<< who are looking for guidance on bullets, which isone ofthe most importantconsiderations in ML hunting (shot placement is first). Most people "go with what is recommended to them by the store or a buddy".
Chap Gleason Va

Try a Sabor Tooth some time.

Hogs with Smokepoles!& powerbelts

Yes, I say that on the PB page I wrote. Chap

The proof is in the bacon! I am not into starting another PB war, just want people to know I put this together. I know I am not changing you, but a fawn they don't know the truth and have NOT been set free yet (to paraphrase a scripture).
Chap

I used to be a fawn and the powerbelts always dropped my deer. I really wish i had been using them in 2001 when a mule deer with double drop tines came into my sights. I still dont have a clue to what happened with that tc maxiball.[:@]

Reb,

One can't say it any better than that. Nothing succeeds like success. I would say, (even though I have never hunted with them), that they are as popular as they are because they do a very good job of killing game. Do you have any recollection of the wounding, penetration, etc. about those hogs. I would be interested in the hunting story of each.

As for fawns needing help avoiding powerbelts I would say this. Being a fawn merely means you haven't posted a whole lot yet. Being mature about your bullet selection is secondary to being mature about your shot placement. Avoid "anus shoots" and "gut shots", avoid shooting at deer which are running "flat out" "legs fully stretched" andone will cut out alot of unsuccessful shooting. If you "miss", count that as a misplaced shot which may not have left a blood trail. You shouldn't miss. Try to put that shot right behind the shoulder and if you have to take a frontal or frontallyquarteredshot, make sure that you don't impact outside the shoulder blade. (Any bullet will glance or ricochet from an oblique impact with a bone especially a large flat bone like a shoulder blade.)

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1908618&mpage=1&key=powerbelt&am p;#1908618

If younotice, it's Tree climberwho posted that on the Hog Forum. I just posted it here to show what a Powerbelt can and will do.

Hey, anyone on this forum who has any doubts about Tree Climber, well he has tons of pictures andmore knowledge about killing Deer & Hogs than most hunters on here. Not only with ML, but with Rifle, Shotgun, Vertical Bow and Crossbow. If you ask him to, he would be happy to post Pictures of all the game he has killed over the years. I regret not taking the amount of pictures he has taken, but I have a few thathe has not had the opportunityto kill.

He and Ihave been hunting the same areas in FL for over 50yrs.

AllI will say in support of Powerbelts is, as many cases of people having poor performance with powerbelts, there would probably be just as many people that have had nothing but good experience with powerbelts. They did not get to be one of the best selling projectiles in the country by being poor in performance. I personally have never shot an animal with a powerbelt. There for I have no first hand experience with their lethal end. I have shot a LOT of powerbelts in practice. In the right rifle, I find them very accurate. I also see no reason why they should not work for the taking of game if used properly.

The real question is, what is the proper way to use a powerbelt. Are some people pushing them too hard? Perhaps placeing them in the wrong area of the animal? I do not know. Would I hunt with them, yes I would.

I do want to say in support of gleason.chapmanthere are a lot of projectiles out there on the market that will do as good a job or better and in many cases for less money. It pays to try different projectiles in your rifles and find those that shoot accurate and work the way they are suppose to.

Complete satisfaction with my PowerBelts this year,one buck,and
seven coyotes so far,no problems with them yet!