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200 gr Match Kings,...Good for Elk at long ranges?????
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<blockquote data-quote="dakor" data-source="post: 142589" data-attributes="member: 2204"><p>I guess I do not worry about weight retention. You could always bust the offside shoulder instead. You are asking my opinion so I will give it you give me a bull elk at 25 yards I would not think twice about shooting him in the shoulder with the SMK or Berger. High shoulder shot it is lights out. I have done tests with wood, steel, and paper and found retention about 50% or less but I do not care what the bullet weighs as long as it make it into the vitals. But I never have liked hard bullets either. If you want to waste a few dollars go to the butcher store and ask for the biggest pork shoulder they have with the bone in it. Set it up at 50 yards with a water jug behind it and see what happens. If it makes it through all that fat and bone you have a winner. The last pork shoulder I got the bone was about 7/8" thick now that is some bone. Here is a link to a bullet I found in a doe under the hide you can read the details this is the only Berger I found in anything I shot this year.</p><p><a href="http://precisionlongrangehunter.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8321005821/m/8361084102" target="_blank">http://precisionlongrangehunter.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8321005821/m/8361084102</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dakor, post: 142589, member: 2204"] I guess I do not worry about weight retention. You could always bust the offside shoulder instead. You are asking my opinion so I will give it you give me a bull elk at 25 yards I would not think twice about shooting him in the shoulder with the SMK or Berger. High shoulder shot it is lights out. I have done tests with wood, steel, and paper and found retention about 50% or less but I do not care what the bullet weighs as long as it make it into the vitals. But I never have liked hard bullets either. If you want to waste a few dollars go to the butcher store and ask for the biggest pork shoulder they have with the bone in it. Set it up at 50 yards with a water jug behind it and see what happens. If it makes it through all that fat and bone you have a winner. The last pork shoulder I got the bone was about 7/8" thick now that is some bone. Here is a link to a bullet I found in a doe under the hide you can read the details this is the only Berger I found in anything I shot this year. [url="http://precisionlongrangehunter.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8321005821/m/8361084102"]http://precisionlongrangehunter.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8321005821/m/8361084102[/url] [/QUOTE]
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