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Is this considered a hunting round?
I have always been a hornday eldx fan trying berger out so I know very little about the berger line. This bullet your talking about They call a target/match bullet not a hunting bullets. You have first hand hunting experience with this. If I'm using a match bullet I would expect the hornady atip to do as well as this target match bullets of berger again much cheaper. I do know the atip falls apart if it hits bone and not great expansion if it hits meats only, does berger target bullets do the same?
That's also why I'm trying berger. Had issues with my eldx not expanding. Thanks for the info.
Just for reference, I shot my mule deer with the 166gr Atip this year (MV - 3005fps). Hit him on the run at 280. Was aiming for the base of his skull but this being my first shot on a running critter, my shot hit his right hind quarter. I couldn't find the bullet but that Atip destroyed that hind quarter almost completely. The shock knocked him clean off his feet!
Atips are nasty, that's what i meant when I said hitting bone they literally blow up. Hitting nothing hard they don't expand. Thanks for the info.
