The reason they can run so far without their heart is when it is stuck, it stomps pumping and locks oxygen rich blood into the brain and muscles of the body. Allowing them to run "dead" for possibly hundreds of yards.The deer is a hard call without recovering it, I've seen them jump and kick when shot in the brisket, also the heart though. I've had deer run a long way without a heart that has been removed by a Matrix or Berger VLD, like almost across a pivot far but seeing the hit I knew they were dead so let them run with one hit, every deer was missing most or all of it's heart which kinda surprised me.
Internal damage was minimal for my 270wsm shoulder shot missed the heart by only a couple inches it was a perfect hole no shock transfer. The internal damage on the lung shot was minimal holes were straight through both lung with the lung on the closer side having same sized entrance and exit. The far side lung had a little bit more damage but was still unimpressive. Every deer I have lung shot with nosler's the damage has been impressive with massive damage to both lungs. Don't get me wrong I love bergers but I just don't have any confidence shooting them at Game after my bad experience.
That is the worst eating deer I have seen. I would look at maybe a better constructed bullet. Just my opinion.
call it what you want, all the damage you see in the pics is superfishel except the inner loins in the next to the last pic, and that was my fault from poor shot placement. They are not any worse than an accubond from what I have saw from 6 deer harvested with them.
RR
sask, the first pic in my post was a hunting vld, had 3 in a row do thatWe have to remember that Berger doesn't recommend using their bullets for hunting, with the exception of the appropriately-named VLD Hunting bullet. If you shoot target bullets, they will not perform on game because they weren't designed to.
We have to remember that Berger doesn't recommend using their bullets for hunting, with the exception of the appropriately-named VLD Hunting bullet. If you shoot target bullets, they will not perform on game because they weren't designed to.
Is that so? Please tell me of your field results that support this statement. But first you may want to read about the 19 big game kills we made with the Berger 215 Targets last season.
Thanks
Jeff
http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f19/cmparing-berger-210-vld-215-hybrid-88657/
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Although, for the record, I was referring more to the "blow up" results the others were mentioning.