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180 NOSLER ACCUBONDS ANY GOOD!!
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<blockquote data-quote="ATH" data-source="post: 1364200" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>You shot the deer at close range with one of the highest velocity for caliber cartridges. There are no perfect bullets. In other words, if you want a bullet to be able to open at long range it will tend to come apart to some degree at closer ranges. </p><p></p><p>In your particular case, without more detail, it is hard to say what happened. Did you clean the deer and figure what happened? You say it "must have blown up" but what did you find when you processed the deer? I can see if it hit the full structure of the far side shoulder how it might not exit.</p><p></p><p>In this case, it is hard to say the bullet failed when the deer dropped. Exits are always nice but I'd say with your range and cartridge I wouldn't necessarily expect it. Such rounds tend to be carnage at short ranges.</p><p></p><p>One of my most reliable deer killers is a 44Mag carbine with 240gr XTPs. Almost invariably, shooting into the shoulders, the jacket catches in the offside hide and the lead alone exits. But the deer are very very dead so I am very very happy with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ATH, post: 1364200, member: 1656"] You shot the deer at close range with one of the highest velocity for caliber cartridges. There are no perfect bullets. In other words, if you want a bullet to be able to open at long range it will tend to come apart to some degree at closer ranges. In your particular case, without more detail, it is hard to say what happened. Did you clean the deer and figure what happened? You say it "must have blown up" but what did you find when you processed the deer? I can see if it hit the full structure of the far side shoulder how it might not exit. In this case, it is hard to say the bullet failed when the deer dropped. Exits are always nice but I'd say with your range and cartridge I wouldn't necessarily expect it. Such rounds tend to be carnage at short ranges. One of my most reliable deer killers is a 44Mag carbine with 240gr XTPs. Almost invariably, shooting into the shoulders, the jacket catches in the offside hide and the lead alone exits. But the deer are very very dead so I am very very happy with it. [/QUOTE]
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