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6.5x284 Berger 130 VLD hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="Doug Herold" data-source="post: 2340580" data-attributes="member: 102658"><p>We'll, I'm going to disagree with about everyone's response to your post. Back when I first started loading my own I was running pretty much what you described in my Cooper 6.5-284: Berger 140gr VLD at 2750 FPS. Everything I shot pancaked DRT. When I gutted the animal it looked like a grenade went off inside. It was something like I had never seen. I was so pleased with the performance of my gun and ammunition. Everything I shot was 400-600 yds. The past few years, though I have added some rifles, I have significantly increased velocity and distance, but consistently the animal takes a perfect hit, runs 50 yds and lays down to die. I hate that. The Berger consistently does a complete pass through and does not dump the hydrostatic shock inside the animal for an immediate kill like it used to. I saw this this past week through my spotting scope: my son made a perfect hit on a whitetail doe at 800 yds with a 6.5 Gap4s. 140 gr. Berger @ 3100 FPS. She ran instead of dropping. Again, I shot a doe at 901 yds. last year with my 7Rem Mag: perfect hit. Berger 180 gr@2911 FPS, lungs falling out both sides of the animal. She ran 50 yds and laid down.</p><p> IMO, ( and this has been discussed before here) these bullets have a YARDAGE and VELOCITY "sweet spot" . Optimal bullet performance depends on matching your velocity to the sweet spot distance of your animal. Velocity and distance are the keys to this equation— and running the bullet as hard as the gun will push it is child's play.</p><p> You stated you live and hunt in Western States. Determine what distances you are deadly. Match your load to the sweet spot of your bullet. Achieving max bullet velocity is BS IMO. Killing animals is different than punching paper and steel. 90% of people do most of their hunting while sitting on the couch and playing on their phone or computer. Find a load which is accurate, performs well on your target animal, and is within your comfort range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug Herold, post: 2340580, member: 102658"] We’ll, I’m going to disagree with about everyone’s response to your post. Back when I first started loading my own I was running pretty much what you described in my Cooper 6.5-284: Berger 140gr VLD at 2750 FPS. Everything I shot pancaked DRT. When I gutted the animal it looked like a grenade went off inside. It was something like I had never seen. I was so pleased with the performance of my gun and ammunition. Everything I shot was 400-600 yds. The past few years, though I have added some rifles, I have significantly increased velocity and distance, but consistently the animal takes a perfect hit, runs 50 yds and lays down to die. I hate that. The Berger consistently does a complete pass through and does not dump the hydrostatic shock inside the animal for an immediate kill like it used to. I saw this this past week through my spotting scope: my son made a perfect hit on a whitetail doe at 800 yds with a 6.5 Gap4s. 140 gr. Berger @ 3100 FPS. She ran instead of dropping. Again, I shot a doe at 901 yds. last year with my 7Rem Mag: perfect hit. Berger 180 gr@2911 FPS, lungs falling out both sides of the animal. She ran 50 yds and laid down. IMO, ( and this has been discussed before here) these bullets have a YARDAGE and VELOCITY “sweet spot” . Optimal bullet performance depends on matching your velocity to the sweet spot distance of your animal. Velocity and distance are the keys to this equation— and running the bullet as hard as the gun will push it is child’s play. You stated you live and hunt in Western States. Determine what distances you are deadly. Match your load to the sweet spot of your bullet. Achieving max bullet velocity is BS IMO. Killing animals is different than punching paper and steel. 90% of people do most of their hunting while sitting on the couch and playing on their phone or computer. Find a load which is accurate, performs well on your target animal, and is within your comfort range. [/QUOTE]
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