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140gr Speer gold dot
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1838209" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>That 7mm Speer 145 gr Hot Core is a good deer bullet if you keep the impact velocity under 2900 fps. Had a friend that was using it in a 7mm Rem mag and running it full throttle. Deer would run off a ways and not leave much if any blood trail often when shot inside 200 yards. He noticed that when the yardage got a little over 200 yards deer dropped and those that did not did not go very far and there was a good blood trail because the bullet exited. He decided to load his 7 mag down and found great accuracy right around 2950 fps. Where he was hunting this was plenty of velocity because his max shots would be around 350 yards on a power line cut through a little stand of pines that was between two soybean fields in east NC. He did not have many runners after doing this. </p><p></p><p>Back in 1980 I used some Speer 150 gr BT Hot Core in a 30-06 for deer and it was an extremely accurate and deadly bullet. The ONLY local place I could get them quit handling them and started using the more popular Sierra 165 BTHP. It was also a great deer bullet so I just switched to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1838209, member: 10178"] That 7mm Speer 145 gr Hot Core is a good deer bullet if you keep the impact velocity under 2900 fps. Had a friend that was using it in a 7mm Rem mag and running it full throttle. Deer would run off a ways and not leave much if any blood trail often when shot inside 200 yards. He noticed that when the yardage got a little over 200 yards deer dropped and those that did not did not go very far and there was a good blood trail because the bullet exited. He decided to load his 7 mag down and found great accuracy right around 2950 fps. Where he was hunting this was plenty of velocity because his max shots would be around 350 yards on a power line cut through a little stand of pines that was between two soybean fields in east NC. He did not have many runners after doing this. Back in 1980 I used some Speer 150 gr BT Hot Core in a 30-06 for deer and it was an extremely accurate and deadly bullet. The ONLY local place I could get them quit handling them and started using the more popular Sierra 165 BTHP. It was also a great deer bullet so I just switched to it. [/QUOTE]
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