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6.5 123gr SMK on deer?
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1850368" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>I have not used the 6.5 123 MK on deer but have shot a good number of deer with the .308 168 MK out of a 308 Win. In my experience out to around 500 yards I would say I have had a 1 in 25 failure. Most of the time there is similar results as a Berger VLD with DRT results but that 1 failure acts like a FMJ and the deer go a long way with little to no blood trail and I have not recovered as many as I found due to the jungle and swamp of east NC where I hunted. I gave up on them for a bullet that is actually constructed as a hunting bullet because the odds will be that one of those failures would be when old monster huge rack shows up. Nosler Ballistic Tip. I have kill a whole bunch of deer with the 120 Nosler BT out of a 6.5x55 running it 3000 fps out to 500ish yards. It is a killer. I am running the Speer 120 Gold Dot out of a 6.5 Grendel at 2550 fps but have only shot one deer with it at 111 yards and it did AWESOMELY.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1850368, member: 10178"] I have not used the 6.5 123 MK on deer but have shot a good number of deer with the .308 168 MK out of a 308 Win. In my experience out to around 500 yards I would say I have had a 1 in 25 failure. Most of the time there is similar results as a Berger VLD with DRT results but that 1 failure acts like a FMJ and the deer go a long way with little to no blood trail and I have not recovered as many as I found due to the jungle and swamp of east NC where I hunted. I gave up on them for a bullet that is actually constructed as a hunting bullet because the odds will be that one of those failures would be when old monster huge rack shows up. Nosler Ballistic Tip. I have kill a whole bunch of deer with the 120 Nosler BT out of a 6.5x55 running it 3000 fps out to 500ish yards. It is a killer. I am running the Speer 120 Gold Dot out of a 6.5 Grendel at 2550 fps but have only shot one deer with it at 111 yards and it did AWESOMELY. [/QUOTE]
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