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25-06 nosler bullet question
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<blockquote data-quote="ShootnMathews" data-source="post: 1232757" data-attributes="member: 59915"><p>Ballistic tips are not for shoulder shots. Aim behind the shoulder for a double lung shot and you'll have much better results. I never shoot a deer in the shoulders. As they lay there flopping and kicking waiting to die the adrenaline gets flowing and makes the meat taste horrible. A double lung shot is more like a bee sting, they run a short ways out of reaction, not knowing what it was, then fall over dead and they bleed out nice. Which makes the meat taste better. </p><p></p><p></p><p>And to the OP, all deer are different. Some just have a determination to live. I shot a nice 9pt a few years ago with my 243 and 95 grn ballistic tips at 2900 fps. Perfect broadside, center double lung shot at 60 yards. The deer ran over 100 yards and then walked another 50 probably before falling dead. This baffled me and I questioned the bullets performance until I got to the deer. It had a 2" to 3" exit hole and the insides were completely destroyed. Over half of the lung capacity was turned into complete mush or gone totally. How that deer went that far is beyond me. The only explanation I have is the deer just wanted to live. The 2506 and 243 are both deer killers. Like some of the others said. Keep them under 3100 fps and they'll do great. The Nosler ballistic tip is my favorite go to hunting bullet. I've never lost a single animal with them across a wide variety of calibers and bullet weights. And I can't count the number of animals we've killed with them. But it's a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ShootnMathews, post: 1232757, member: 59915"] Ballistic tips are not for shoulder shots. Aim behind the shoulder for a double lung shot and you'll have much better results. I never shoot a deer in the shoulders. As they lay there flopping and kicking waiting to die the adrenaline gets flowing and makes the meat taste horrible. A double lung shot is more like a bee sting, they run a short ways out of reaction, not knowing what it was, then fall over dead and they bleed out nice. Which makes the meat taste better. And to the OP, all deer are different. Some just have a determination to live. I shot a nice 9pt a few years ago with my 243 and 95 grn ballistic tips at 2900 fps. Perfect broadside, center double lung shot at 60 yards. The deer ran over 100 yards and then walked another 50 probably before falling dead. This baffled me and I questioned the bullets performance until I got to the deer. It had a 2" to 3" exit hole and the insides were completely destroyed. Over half of the lung capacity was turned into complete mush or gone totally. How that deer went that far is beyond me. The only explanation I have is the deer just wanted to live. The 2506 and 243 are both deer killers. Like some of the others said. Keep them under 3100 fps and they'll do great. The Nosler ballistic tip is my favorite go to hunting bullet. I've never lost a single animal with them across a wide variety of calibers and bullet weights. And I can't count the number of animals we've killed with them. But it's a lot. [/QUOTE]
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