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Surprised by .277 140 Berger Hunting VLD
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 998131" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>What you experienced was due to the guts containing much more liquid than the chest. Hydro shock effect. The bullet expands the same but where there is more liquid it has to displace it someplace. It displaced it out the other side leaving that huge whole. I have only shot one deer with a Berger VLD. It was broadside at 111 yards and was shot with a 30x47 with a 155 VLD at 2650 fps muzzle velocity. Impact was center of onside shoulder and exit was back edge and just behind offside shoulder. Deer did a squat and dash into a VERY THICK cut over. Went down the logging road where the deer was standing when shot. For around five yards down the road on the offside it looked like you had taken a quart of blood and lung tissue and put them in a blinder and slung it down the road. There was not another drop of blood to be found from that point to where the deer was found 50 yards away. I had to get down on my hands and knees and crawl down the deer path into that cut over to find the deer. When found the offside was laying up. It had a hole in the hide that you could have dropped a baseball into easy. The deer sloshed inside. It's whole chest cavity was pulp so there was nothing to pump any blood out as it ran off and no lungs at all to blow blood out. Lost both shoulders due to being pulverized. I decided to go back to my Nosler 125 gr ballistic tips at 2850 fps. It usually drops a deer in it's tracks and does much less damage to the meat. I went right to the Nosler 130 gr Accubond for my 264 Win mag that does 3350 fps with them. It has worked awesome on the dozen plus deer I have shot from 30 to a bit over 400 yards. Bang Flop on everyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 998131, member: 10178"] What you experienced was due to the guts containing much more liquid than the chest. Hydro shock effect. The bullet expands the same but where there is more liquid it has to displace it someplace. It displaced it out the other side leaving that huge whole. I have only shot one deer with a Berger VLD. It was broadside at 111 yards and was shot with a 30x47 with a 155 VLD at 2650 fps muzzle velocity. Impact was center of onside shoulder and exit was back edge and just behind offside shoulder. Deer did a squat and dash into a VERY THICK cut over. Went down the logging road where the deer was standing when shot. For around five yards down the road on the offside it looked like you had taken a quart of blood and lung tissue and put them in a blinder and slung it down the road. There was not another drop of blood to be found from that point to where the deer was found 50 yards away. I had to get down on my hands and knees and crawl down the deer path into that cut over to find the deer. When found the offside was laying up. It had a hole in the hide that you could have dropped a baseball into easy. The deer sloshed inside. It's whole chest cavity was pulp so there was nothing to pump any blood out as it ran off and no lungs at all to blow blood out. Lost both shoulders due to being pulverized. I decided to go back to my Nosler 125 gr ballistic tips at 2850 fps. It usually drops a deer in it's tracks and does much less damage to the meat. I went right to the Nosler 130 gr Accubond for my 264 Win mag that does 3350 fps with them. It has worked awesome on the dozen plus deer I have shot from 30 to a bit over 400 yards. Bang Flop on everyone. [/QUOTE]
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