VLD Pilot
Well-Known Member
After following all the responses and reading yours, I have to respond myself. Many hunters DO NOT condone using match bullets for hunting. Pretty meaningless really as I always say, "Then don't use them". One thing nobody needs to have is someone telling another person they shouldn't use them. Nobody drives next to another person on the highway telling the guy next to him he's speeding, slow down. It's just not their place to do that. Shot placement is #1. Period. Don't matter if the bullet is 10% is recovered and destroys everything internally or 85% is recovered and found in the opposite side hide. What's important is the lethality of the hit. I've seen my share of "Hunting" bullets cause hunters to track animals for hundreds of yards. Shot placement is everything. I'm guessing if a hunter uses Nosler partitions but shoots terribly, that's ok. Just don't be a match bullet shooter that can shoot X's all day long and use that same bullet on a game animal. That's just a horrible mentality for a hunter. Much much worse than the guy using the match bullet to kill an animal. I use match bullets 100% of the time on animals beyond 600 yards. Haven't had to track one yet. Even the .243 at 500 yards using 95 grain match bullets anchors deer immediately. Never a walk off. Use what works...period. I've been using two blade fixed broadheads for 35 years on my arrows. If I had a nickel for Everytime I heard guys tell me they don't leave a bloodtrail and to junk them and buy mechanical heads, I'd be rich. I started using a mechanical head one year. Shot great on targets, what the heck. Why not. Shot a whitetail buck at 20 yards and the blades never opened up. Luckily the arrow hit good vitals and the deer didn't go real far. What I used didn't work as it was suppose too. Back to the two blade broadhead I go. Never failed me, good blood, complete pass thru and if I do my part and hit the deer where I aim, it's mine Everytime. Same as with any bullet used to kill and animal. Shot placement is Paramount.Not to dispel the out come of these last two kills, but that match bullet did not stay together as a hunting bullet of the same brand and weight would have. Obviously it all worked , but it could have turned out with a wounded and lost animal. So I myself at an older age and with much more experience have seen the same thing happen with Nosler Ballistics Tips that are not bonded or any thing else. We, my wife of 30 years have killed mule deer and Black Bear in Southern California. Over the last 20 years and have never lost an animal to a bullet that was not designed for big game animals. Please do not take this personal by any means but do understand that the right bullet for the right job is where it is at...….O.K.....Michael T.