1-Are you concerned with high BC?

2-Or are you more inclined to worry about performance on game? basically how quick or fast it kills your particular animal.

1- I'm always concerned with higher BC bullets for longer range shooting/hunting.

2- Performance matters, but shot placement matters most. With proper shot placement, you can kill game with a marble.

I rare get a shot past 100 yards. Normally 75 yards and closer so a high BC doesn't concern me much. When I use a conical I want one that delivers as much energy as possible internally and exiting the other side.

Back in 1960 I started out with a 40 caliber PRB and tracked several deer for 1/2 mile or more. I hit them good but did not seem to have any stopping power right then I decided putting them down as close to where I hit them was right next to reasonable accuracy in importance. Last year I dropped a doe less than 10 yards from where I hit her with a 250 grain Lehigh at 147 yards by laser range finder this year one of the 5 I got was 136 yards a decent buck [basket rack] and I dropped him in less than 30 yards with a 200 grain /40 caliber Lehigh [ all my Lehigh are Bloodline I have not shot any other for hunting for several years.

High BC in a ML bullet is not a concern for me. I personally limit my shooting range to 200 - 250yds. max.


I am always willing, in a ML bullet, to trade BC for Meplat. I really want the impact felt then the most important part the destruction of the internals by Hydrostatic Shock.


I believe if I can achieve the felt impact on the animal with energy of the felt impact and the shock of the destruction of the internal you can over-ride the animals immediate 'flight response'

Funny thing is, i never get to choose the bullet. The rifle, he gets the choice. This year i decided to use the 275 grain BE. The rifle chose the 300 grain XTP. After all said, and done, i guess i am glad he did; the gut shot deer didn't get far, and is in the freezer.

His criteria are neither BC, nor terminal performance, but his choice did do a very fine job putting the deer down, even with a lousy shot on my part.










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a few of my examples and what i like.

BC really means nothing to me. I worry more about bullet expansion and tissue damage from the original hit. Another thing that is just as important is accuracy.

I shoot a lot of round balls. BC with them is a joke, so big balls are better.

For the SML I am building soon I will want an extreme BC because I will be shooting at ranges from 200-300 yards on Moose. I'll want every drop of energy that bullet can retain for those ranges on a Mature Bull Moose. Probably go with a Parker or a home lathed with a lightly hollow base and run through a drop sizer design I have in my head. But for my normal ranges on Whitetail and Elk, rarely over 150 yards, like Sabot I want the most felt impact and internal damage as can be delivered for a quick drop of the animal. So far, Lehighs/Bloodlines have shown me exactly what I want to see in terminal performance and at my medium ranges they perform exactly how I need them to as far as accuracy. They shoot great from both mine and my Daughters TC's. I think I'm going to go a bit heavier than the 220's and go with these 265gr controlled fracturing: