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<blockquote data-quote="Educated Redneck" data-source="post: 1634863" data-attributes="member: 84387"><p>I've shot two whitetail deer at about 250 yds with a 300 weatherby mag using the same bullet as the OP. Both performed very poorly. While the deer dropped dead in their tracks, the bullet never expanded and had a pencil hole in and pencil out. Both shots were quartered away into the boiler room and the sonic boom from a very fast traveling bullet liquefied most of the lungs, but I was disappointing with the exit hole. I use 180 target in my 7 LRM with excellent results however. I switched from the 215 to the slightly smaller berger hunting bullet and saw much better expansion on the 300 weatherby mag. Not the most empirical evidence, but I'm a stickler for evaluating my kills and damage inflicted and felt lucky I made perfect shots on these animals as there would not have been much of a blood trail to follow if they didn't go right down from an overbore large for species chambering. Seriously zero expansion. The fluke might be that I didn't hit any bone on entrance however. Between ribs on both deer. Regardless, I switched bullets. Probably better for thicker skinned animals or shoulder shots as already pointed out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Educated Redneck, post: 1634863, member: 84387"] I've shot two whitetail deer at about 250 yds with a 300 weatherby mag using the same bullet as the OP. Both performed very poorly. While the deer dropped dead in their tracks, the bullet never expanded and had a pencil hole in and pencil out. Both shots were quartered away into the boiler room and the sonic boom from a very fast traveling bullet liquefied most of the lungs, but I was disappointing with the exit hole. I use 180 target in my 7 LRM with excellent results however. I switched from the 215 to the slightly smaller berger hunting bullet and saw much better expansion on the 300 weatherby mag. Not the most empirical evidence, but I'm a stickler for evaluating my kills and damage inflicted and felt lucky I made perfect shots on these animals as there would not have been much of a blood trail to follow if they didn't go right down from an overbore large for species chambering. Seriously zero expansion. The fluke might be that I didn't hit any bone on entrance however. Between ribs on both deer. Regardless, I switched bullets. Probably better for thicker skinned animals or shoulder shots as already pointed out. [/QUOTE]
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