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<blockquote data-quote="115vld" data-source="post: 201385" data-attributes="member: 11228"><p>JPRITT, I respect your decision on bullet selection and am by no means saying you are wrong and I am right. </p><p></p><p>IMHO the complete amount of energy needs to go from the bullet to the animal. The Berger does this better than any bullet I have seen. I have yet to get an exit on any game animal with the Berger VLD's. That includes shots from 30 on out to 700. I do like Nosler Ballistic tips but I have had them fail to open at longer ranges. I am talking out to 800 yards roughly. </p><p></p><p>Now my experience with the bonded bullets and X-type bullets has been this. Keep in mind that my family owns a high game fence ranch and I have seen hundreds of deer taken with all types of bullets. Most (~65% +) deer shot with these deep penatrating bullets run off over 50 yards. This is not on high shoulder or neck shots but boiler room shots. When the round passes straight through an animal it is a lot like hunting with a bow. The animal has to bleed out. Now quite a few do drop but they tend to get back up and run into the yoepon which makes it almost impossible to track.</p><p></p><p>The ballistic tip and VLD's do a much better job of DRT shots even if not put in the perfect place. The sheer amount of shock to the lungs and heart due to the bullet stopping about 2/3 of the way through and breaking into dozens of pieces create enough shock on the animal to fold them up. Just what I have seen in the past, I am not saying I am right though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="115vld, post: 201385, member: 11228"] JPRITT, I respect your decision on bullet selection and am by no means saying you are wrong and I am right. IMHO the complete amount of energy needs to go from the bullet to the animal. The Berger does this better than any bullet I have seen. I have yet to get an exit on any game animal with the Berger VLD's. That includes shots from 30 on out to 700. I do like Nosler Ballistic tips but I have had them fail to open at longer ranges. I am talking out to 800 yards roughly. Now my experience with the bonded bullets and X-type bullets has been this. Keep in mind that my family owns a high game fence ranch and I have seen hundreds of deer taken with all types of bullets. Most (~65% +) deer shot with these deep penatrating bullets run off over 50 yards. This is not on high shoulder or neck shots but boiler room shots. When the round passes straight through an animal it is a lot like hunting with a bow. The animal has to bleed out. Now quite a few do drop but they tend to get back up and run into the yoepon which makes it almost impossible to track. The ballistic tip and VLD's do a much better job of DRT shots even if not put in the perfect place. The sheer amount of shock to the lungs and heart due to the bullet stopping about 2/3 of the way through and breaking into dozens of pieces create enough shock on the animal to fold them up. Just what I have seen in the past, I am not saying I am right though. [/QUOTE]
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