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Do I need to adjust the seating die to seat each bullet to the same depth?
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<blockquote data-quote="PowellSixO" data-source="post: 1218310" data-attributes="member: 66495"><p>I wouldn't know bud honestly. I've cut a few of them in half just out of curiosity, but couldn't tell you if they're any softer than others. I can tell you that the top 10-15% of the bullet is hollow, and the rest of the core of the bullet is lead (or at least I think it's lead). I can tell you for a fact though, that they kill with authority. I've killed one bull elk at 400 yards on the dot (with the 7mm 168gr VLD), that didn't go anywhere. In fact I took a frontal shot on him, and he sat down and rolled over backwards dead. I killed a 150" white tail buck at 476 yards with my 243 win (6mm 87gr VLD), and he went maybe 20 yards at the most. I hit him in the last rib, quartered away from me, and it turned his lungs and heart into soup. I also killed one mule deer buck with them, at 175 yards (running shot, again with the 87gr VLD), and he flipped ***** over head. He was dead before he hit the ground. I've only been hunting with them for these 3 hunts, so I really only have that experience with them. But I'm confident enough in the VLD's to use them this fall on a late rifle bull hunt that I drew, and my first ever coues deer hunt that I also drew. The stopping power these bullets have is stupid. They do exactly as advertised. They go in a few inches and shed almost all of their weight (you only find bits and pieces of the bullet inside), and do massive damage. If you hit them right, they aren't going anywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PowellSixO, post: 1218310, member: 66495"] I wouldn't know bud honestly. I've cut a few of them in half just out of curiosity, but couldn't tell you if they're any softer than others. I can tell you that the top 10-15% of the bullet is hollow, and the rest of the core of the bullet is lead (or at least I think it's lead). I can tell you for a fact though, that they kill with authority. I've killed one bull elk at 400 yards on the dot (with the 7mm 168gr VLD), that didn't go anywhere. In fact I took a frontal shot on him, and he sat down and rolled over backwards dead. I killed a 150" white tail buck at 476 yards with my 243 win (6mm 87gr VLD), and he went maybe 20 yards at the most. I hit him in the last rib, quartered away from me, and it turned his lungs and heart into soup. I also killed one mule deer buck with them, at 175 yards (running shot, again with the 87gr VLD), and he flipped ***** over head. He was dead before he hit the ground. I've only been hunting with them for these 3 hunts, so I really only have that experience with them. But I'm confident enough in the VLD's to use them this fall on a late rifle bull hunt that I drew, and my first ever coues deer hunt that I also drew. The stopping power these bullets have is stupid. They do exactly as advertised. They go in a few inches and shed almost all of their weight (you only find bits and pieces of the bullet inside), and do massive damage. If you hit them right, they aren't going anywhere. [/QUOTE]
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