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<blockquote data-quote="FireFlyFishing" data-source="post: 3035499" data-attributes="member: 127412"><p>Exactly. This has been my experience.</p><p></p><p>Agreed. Knowing your effective range with monos is very important for optimal terminal performance.</p><p></p><p></p><p>True enough. However, as you mentioned previously, over penetration produces better blood <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🩸" title="Drop of blood :drop_of_blood:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1fa78.png" data-shortname=":drop_of_blood:" /> trails. The three separate experiences where I lost animals with Bergers, the animals took off without a blood trail. In all three cases there was no snow making matters worse. I'm not the worst tracker by any means, but I scoured the county side only to be left empty handed. Awful feeling. The last loss was a really nice bull elk. That did it for me. Three strikes and Berger was out. </p><p></p><p>Interestingly enough, I shot a deer with a Berger one time, and it didn't expand and blew out the back side of the deer's torso.</p><p>Wow! Didn't go far and talk about blood!</p><p></p><p>Again, inconsistent results. I'd prefer scenario two from what I listed above every time. To accomplish this I have fully switched my line up to monos and bonded bullets for big game. I couldn't be happier.</p><p></p><p>I won't deny Berger makes accurate bullets with high BCs. I'm fine with them for range work, but that's where I'll leave them. Lots of folks on here seem to have great luck with them. Cool. They're not for me and I would not recommend them for big game hunting and certainly not for dangerous game hunting based from my experiences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FireFlyFishing, post: 3035499, member: 127412"] Exactly. This has been my experience. Agreed. Knowing your effective range with monos is very important for optimal terminal performance. True enough. However, as you mentioned previously, over penetration produces better blood 🩸 trails. The three separate experiences where I lost animals with Bergers, the animals took off without a blood trail. In all three cases there was no snow making matters worse. I’m not the worst tracker by any means, but I scoured the county side only to be left empty handed. Awful feeling. The last loss was a really nice bull elk. That did it for me. Three strikes and Berger was out. Interestingly enough, I shot a deer with a Berger one time, and it didn’t expand and blew out the back side of the deer’s torso. Wow! Didn’t go far and talk about blood! Again, inconsistent results. I’d prefer scenario two from what I listed above every time. To accomplish this I have fully switched my line up to monos and bonded bullets for big game. I couldn’t be happier. I won’t deny Berger makes accurate bullets with high BCs. I’m fine with them for range work, but that’s where I’ll leave them. Lots of folks on here seem to have great luck with them. Cool. They’re not for me and I would not recommend them for big game hunting and certainly not for dangerous game hunting based from my experiences. [/QUOTE]
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