Hornady bullets!!!!
#21
I don't hunt deer, but I do go after hogs. Some of the larger hogs (250 Lbs or so) are probably tougher than deer. I just use Hornady Interlocks, either 150 or 180 grain. The 150 grain bullets will go right through a 150# hog. The 180's typically pass through anything I can find to shoot. I've recovered a couple of the 150 grain SP bullets, they expand nicely and I have seen no reason to try anything more expensive.
#25
Spike
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 29
A 7mm-08 duplicate the 7x57 Mauser and with their modest velocities has always worked well with traditional cup-and-core bullets. Any good 140-160 grain bullet will exit on a whitetail at 150 yds. The super-bullets of the last 25 years are designed to cope with the disintegration of conventional bullets at short ranges at high (>3000FPS) impact velocities. Not a problem for you.
#27
Spike
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 18
No need for fancy mono metal bullets on deer, of all my rifles only my 06 is running a mono metal (TTSX) and only because it is for those places where I am just as likely to run across a large hog as a deer. Everywhere else and in all my other guns I use SGKs, Ballistic Tips, or SSTs and have been impressed with the results.