I have to respectfully disagree on the smaller game performance. From what I have personally seen on a lot of pronghorn (our family and friends we hunt with harvests around 20-30 a year), I am actually liking these monos better on pronghorn too. Here is the shoulder of a doe pronghorn hit with a 270 grain .338 that was going around 2900 fps, this is the exit side. Far less meat damage than we see with Bergers, and they kill them just as quickly. The 6.5 156 Berger, .30 cal 208 lrht, .270 170, 7mm 180 vld, and many other bullets we have used, while they still put the animals down as good, they cause way more meat damage, and that matters when you only get 35-45 lbs of meat off the animal in the first place. I still use the bergers in some of my guns because they are cheaper, however I try to put my hits behind the shoulder.
Square through the shoulder with a big .338, at 180 yards, and still good meat right up to the massive exit hole.
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On the contrary, exit hole from a .308 208 LRHT at 90 yards, even though it hit this far forward (entrance was same place on the other side) it was so violent that it ruptured the diaphragm and blew guts out the exit hole, as you can see along her side, and throughout the shoulder, along with heavy blood shot, and I lost almost the entire shoulder. Both very similar impacts, both very quick kills, one I lost maybe a couple lbs of meat, the other I lost almost the entire shoulder. As I stated, we harvest 20-30 pronghorn a year, and these results are consistent, from the 140 .270 mono up to the 270 .338. I like the price and how effective the Bergers kill these smaller game, but shoulder impacts are very often ugly.
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