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SST and Balistic Tips on deer. A good choice?
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<blockquote data-quote="mnoland30" data-source="post: 455491" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>My son shot a mule deer at 70 yards with a 140 gr. BT with a 7mm Rem Mag. It made hamburger of both front shoulders. Almost no salvageable meat. My friend shot a Barbary sheep at 90 yards with a 7mm-08 140 gr. BT and it dropped on the spot. At high velocity, they almost explode. I've never heard of a BT not opening. It doesn't even seem possible at reasonable velocities unless the bullet was defective. I hit a moving deer in the throat, and it made less than 100 yards. </p><p></p><p>I started using Barnes bullets after that, because I like controlled expansion, and an exit hole on elk. My butcher used to put all of the recovered bullets in a tray on the counter, and the Barnes bullets always looked just like the pictures in the magazines. I used 120 a gr. bullet in a 7-30 Waters at 2400 fps and got complete penetration and dropped in tracks performance on a Barbary sheep at 230 yards. </p><p></p><p>At the other end of the spectrum is the Berger bullet. It penetrates two or three inches and then explodes in the vitals. I shot an elk this year with a Berger bullet, and I have to say I loved the result. They shoot very accurately (more than half the battle) and the terminal performance was devastating. The bull took two steps and rolled. Just like in the video. </p><p></p><p>When all is said and done, almost any bullet will work on a deer. The most critical issues are accuracy and price. The only time I ever had an expansion problem was with my TC Pistol 7mm TCU shooting at 1900 fps. At 100 yards, the bullets were going through javelina without much expansion. I switched to Speer's 115 gr. hollowpoints (1/8" hole at the tip) and it drops them in their tracks out to 200 yards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mnoland30, post: 455491, member: 29323"] My son shot a mule deer at 70 yards with a 140 gr. BT with a 7mm Rem Mag. It made hamburger of both front shoulders. Almost no salvageable meat. My friend shot a Barbary sheep at 90 yards with a 7mm-08 140 gr. BT and it dropped on the spot. At high velocity, they almost explode. I've never heard of a BT not opening. It doesn't even seem possible at reasonable velocities unless the bullet was defective. I hit a moving deer in the throat, and it made less than 100 yards. I started using Barnes bullets after that, because I like controlled expansion, and an exit hole on elk. My butcher used to put all of the recovered bullets in a tray on the counter, and the Barnes bullets always looked just like the pictures in the magazines. I used 120 a gr. bullet in a 7-30 Waters at 2400 fps and got complete penetration and dropped in tracks performance on a Barbary sheep at 230 yards. At the other end of the spectrum is the Berger bullet. It penetrates two or three inches and then explodes in the vitals. I shot an elk this year with a Berger bullet, and I have to say I loved the result. They shoot very accurately (more than half the battle) and the terminal performance was devastating. The bull took two steps and rolled. Just like in the video. When all is said and done, almost any bullet will work on a deer. The most critical issues are accuracy and price. The only time I ever had an expansion problem was with my TC Pistol 7mm TCU shooting at 1900 fps. At 100 yards, the bullets were going through javelina without much expansion. I switched to Speer's 115 gr. hollowpoints (1/8" hole at the tip) and it drops them in their tracks out to 200 yards. [/QUOTE]
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