God luck with your doe Chris, and Merry Christmas to you too.

PB's are a "load".

Good luck - be patient for the right shot if you have to use them.

Sproul - I shoot Nosler partition hollow points at 1900 fps - devastating on deer.
Not all hp are created equal.

Steve

Well, I sighted in at 75 yds. using 75 gr. Pyrodex RS (powder). I shot a button buck yesterday. I was all ready to come out of the stand, only thing left to do before descending was lower the rifle, and here he came. He was real close, I slipped the rifle back out of the case and tried to find him in the scope. I'm not a big scope fan to begin with, but have used this one since it was on the rifle when I took it in on trade. It's a crappy, no-namescope with a blurry image at any range.Anyway, I picked up his blurry body, sighted and shot. He was only 16 yards away. Hit the shoulder and he dropped immediately.

Later examiniation showed the bullet shattered his shoulder and then went on to break a rib on the opposite side, but didn't exit. The bullet mushroomed pretty well. I recovered the main slug, which was about 158gr. and two fragments, one about 8gr. and the other about 12gr. I suppose I might find a couple more fragments during dinner.

Thanks again for all the advice.

Congrats on the deer!

for a shoulder shot and 75gr RS with that 195, it sounds like it did its job. I personally wouldnt hav gone over 70gr but it sounds like you had a very very close shot.

what did the entrance/exit hole look like?

i use 225 grain pb hp with 80 grains of 777 2f. killed a doe this year she was about 60 to 70 yards clean pass thru ran maybe 40 yards dropped dead. she was slightly 1/4ering to me.no problem with hollow points

JUST DONT PUSH THAT LIGHT BULLET FAST,LOAD IN THE MIDDLE AREA,like say low is 50 grs and high is 120 grs,load around 80 grs of powder,thats what i use inmy hawkins .50 cal.

if i went to over 100 grs with a 295 powerbelt, i know i would blow that bullet up.

i got the idea a long time ago i was going to use SIERRA hollow point 90 gr bullets in my .250-3000 sav lever action.

i loaded the shells with 3031 powder at 3,000 fps.

i shot a buck broadside at 50 yds and he ran away.

we found him and bullet did not do what i thought it would, it blew up when it hit his elbow behind shoulder.

what a stupid thing for me to do.