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<blockquote data-quote="Clay Target Guy" data-source="post: 1651902" data-attributes="member: 68920"><p>As I stated before, I am not the Great White Hunter but most of my deer were shot with a pain old 270 Winchester and 130 Nosler Ballistic tip bullets. Before that (way back in the 70's) I used a 444 Marlin with 240 gr either soft flat nose bullets or hollow points.</p><p>I know why deer did boom flops with the 444. I shot center of chest, but way back then the bullets were nothing more that a 44 mag pistol bullet being pushed at around 2400 FPS. You had a small hole going in, and about an inch to 1.5" hole coming out. When you opened the deer up, there was nothing left inside, I mean it was small chucks of jelly. You just rolled the deer over and poured the chest cavity out.</p><p>I use to keep track of bang flops with the 270 and best I can remember, I had my longest run was in the high 20's (something like 27-29).</p><p>Most but not all were tight behind the shoulder shots (I was a bow hunter back in the day as well).</p><p>One deer I can remember that broke the bang flop string was shot with the 270 and it ran a good 150 yards but a chuck of lung and most of its heart were found on the ground right where he was standing when I shot him. I don't remember what bullet I was using but I do remember going back to Nosler after that. (that was back when they came in the red boxes and were in 100 count boxes) I will say, I think today's Noslers are way better as far as consistency goes) When I shot the red box stuff, sometimes it would appear to pencil thru and sometimes it would look like it just blew up. I still got quick kills but I did change bullets for awhile.</p><p>I think bullets as a whole have come a long way since then, but still think that speed does play a roll in things. The hyd. shock does seem to make sense to me, maybe that is it, I don't know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clay Target Guy, post: 1651902, member: 68920"] As I stated before, I am not the Great White Hunter but most of my deer were shot with a pain old 270 Winchester and 130 Nosler Ballistic tip bullets. Before that (way back in the 70's) I used a 444 Marlin with 240 gr either soft flat nose bullets or hollow points. I know why deer did boom flops with the 444. I shot center of chest, but way back then the bullets were nothing more that a 44 mag pistol bullet being pushed at around 2400 FPS. You had a small hole going in, and about an inch to 1.5" hole coming out. When you opened the deer up, there was nothing left inside, I mean it was small chucks of jelly. You just rolled the deer over and poured the chest cavity out. I use to keep track of bang flops with the 270 and best I can remember, I had my longest run was in the high 20's (something like 27-29). Most but not all were tight behind the shoulder shots (I was a bow hunter back in the day as well). One deer I can remember that broke the bang flop string was shot with the 270 and it ran a good 150 yards but a chuck of lung and most of its heart were found on the ground right where he was standing when I shot him. I don't remember what bullet I was using but I do remember going back to Nosler after that. (that was back when they came in the red boxes and were in 100 count boxes) I will say, I think today's Noslers are way better as far as consistency goes) When I shot the red box stuff, sometimes it would appear to pencil thru and sometimes it would look like it just blew up. I still got quick kills but I did change bullets for awhile. I think bullets as a whole have come a long way since then, but still think that speed does play a roll in things. The hyd. shock does seem to make sense to me, maybe that is it, I don't know. [/QUOTE]
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