That was a shoulder shot on the deer. High shoulder

You posted this pic in the EXACT same post. IN THE FIELD testing as you called it.


Yep reacts like a varmint bullet.

'tis a fast expanding bullet made to start a blood trail faster.

Plenty of penetration.

You test any Aerolites out and have some pictures or videos?

Didn't think so ;)

Next time you're in Colorado, grab some 300gr Aerolites and an elk tag and I'll show you how its done. Maybe some of my good luck powerbelt charm will rub off onto you and the powerbelt gods will bless you with a miracle!

I dont need to test a 50cal 250gr soft lead HP bullet with a poor sectional density to understand it has major limitations and a high cost.

The wise choice would be to shoot a 250gr Thor if i chose to go down that path.

Its really crazy how in 2013 you complained of poor penetration and even made inserts but now....its a whole other story. ;)

No I didn't say the 295gr powerbelt, I said the 300gr Aerolite.

The inserts were an amazing thing, to this day I still get emails asking if I sell them LOL. If they werent such a pain to make, I'd offer them.

Not sure how I complained, you saw my reactions in the video. Sure didn't complain about the bullet, other than the deer not being the monster.

And SURELY, that elk video wasn't any complaining going on!!

Now todays we have bullets MADE to explode and fragment inside animals.

Berger being one of those.

You can pick a Powerbelt that will exit or pick one that will expend all of it's energy inside. The Aerolite, much like any ballistic tip bullet, uses up most of it's energy inside causing a lot of damage. There will always be two schools of though on this... and I like having both options available depending on the game hunted. Our deer are 100 to 150 lbs for the most part... I like the 250 Aerolite for deer like that. If I were after really big hogs or bear with a short shot (say 50 yards to a feeder) I would opt for maybe the 348 or 405 Powerbelt.


I believe the world record Grizzly was killed with a CVA Accura loaded with three White Hot's and a 405 grain Powerbelt... dropped the big boy on the spot if I remember correctly. I'm not concerned with an empty freezer at the end of deer season... I predict a lot of cube steak using the 250 Aerolite... :party0005:

"I predict a lot of cube steak using the 250 Aerolite"

And a lot of trimmed and thrown away meat. You might convince me that on a small whitetail, this bullet would be acceptable, but not on an elk. Yes, slip it behind the shoulder and it will make mincemeat of the lungs and a short tracking job, but it doesn't always work that way. Any bullet that makes a big entrance wound has some inherent problems. Just ask the original Mr. Nosler. Soft lead bullets blowing up when they hit a big animal was the reason he invented the nosler partition. That bullet still works great to this day. Yes, there are differences in speed of bullet, but any bullet that blows up on impact at muzzy speed has some problems in terminal performance in my book. To each his own

Im still not sure why you keep going back to the 300gr and in this case shot from a pistol at MUCH lower velocity. Lets also not forget that the WHC is sponsored by CVA/PowerBelt/Bergara and its unlikely they would give it a bad review.

The very simple fact is for $2 a pop there are bullets that don't have the sever velocity limitations of a light for caliber soft lead bullet with a huge hollow point.

After so many of us have had them explode on impact there really is not any question about that, they can be modified so they don't, but with them being the most over priced bullet on the market that's sort of self defeating also.