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<blockquote data-quote="Hoss50" data-source="post: 1938573" data-attributes="member: 109801"><p>I would not shoot these Berger HVLD on elk unless you are 100% certain you can make a clean lung or heart hit. That bullet probably doesn't have the arse to brake the shoulder at that range. I shot my first cow elk with that bullet and caliber and it went just fine. It was 260-280 yards and both hits were clean lung hits. I was carrying that rifle not because I didn't have access to rifles of heavier caliber, but because I knew that if I needed to take a longer shot, that was the rifle I could do it with and make a clean hit. 280 yards doesn't sound like alot but with a 3x9 scope and 20+mph crosswind with no way to calculate hold it was a shot I wouldn't have taken with any of the other rifles I had available at that time. </p><p></p><p>Barnes and Nosler Partitions will hold up better for hits on bones. Bergers in that caliber wont IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hoss50, post: 1938573, member: 109801"] I would not shoot these Berger HVLD on elk unless you are 100% certain you can make a clean lung or heart hit. That bullet probably doesn't have the arse to brake the shoulder at that range. I shot my first cow elk with that bullet and caliber and it went just fine. It was 260-280 yards and both hits were clean lung hits. I was carrying that rifle not because I didn't have access to rifles of heavier caliber, but because I knew that if I needed to take a longer shot, that was the rifle I could do it with and make a clean hit. 280 yards doesn't sound like alot but with a 3x9 scope and 20+mph crosswind with no way to calculate hold it was a shot I wouldn't have taken with any of the other rifles I had available at that time. Barnes and Nosler Partitions will hold up better for hits on bones. Bergers in that caliber wont IMO. [/QUOTE]
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