OG-danimal
Well-Known Member
Copy that. What have you found for your weight retention percentages on game animals?Target. Not the Elite Hunters. Not the VLDs.
Copy that. What have you found for your weight retention percentages on game animals?Target. Not the Elite Hunters. Not the VLDs.
What have you found for your weight retention percentages on game animals?
When I transitioned from NP, NAB, NBT (long-time Nosler bullet user), etc., to Berger bullets in 2003, I stopped worrying about weight retention or pass-through. I have yet to lose a game -most are DRTs. While I use other bullets, Berger bullets are my go-to bullets of choice, like @lancetkenyon. I load them from .243 Win to .338 Thor (NMI), but the .300 WM remains my go-to chambering.When I say "best" I'm talking about reliable and consistent performance. Accurate when hand loaded, with enough velocity to expand at "hunting" distances. Let me know your bullet and cartridge of choice. Talking all western game here.
Cheers
I have only recovered three. All the rest exited.Copy that. What have you found for your weight retention percentages on game animals?
6.5 PRC?I have only recovered three. All the rest exited.
6.5mm 130 OTM after passing through 18" of a big mule deer hard quartering away below us. Dropped at the shot without a single twitch. Lights out.
453 yds, MV 2900fps
Weight retension 53gr.
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Entrance between ribs
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Bullet found under offside skin in the neck.
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.308" 215 Hyb on a broadside bull elk. Uphill @ 432 yds, 3113fps MV. Dropped, rolled once, kicked twice, done.
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6mm 105 Hyb. 460 yds, 3188fps MV. Dropped at the shot, dead without a kick. Broke front leg going in, two ribs, stopped.under offside hide. Blew the hair off the backside.
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YepMaybe it's just me, but I get tired of when someone shares their positive experience only to have someone else jump them and try to run their experience into the ground.
It's no different than Ford vs Chevy.
When a person is to emotionally invested in (or against) a product, they are automatically in a defensive/attack state of mind instead of having a teaching mentality, and they're likely to use flawed data from skewed sampling.Attitude and approach can sure dissolve good data.