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<blockquote data-quote="chickm1" data-source="post: 1785847" data-attributes="member: 49525"><p>Bud, I loaded the VLD Hunting bullets this year. Of 5 animals shot, I had 2 failures. One was on a huge WT buck, I shot at 150 yards. Yesterday was 6 weeks later, and I get a picture of the buck on a trail came. The buck has lost 40 lbs, and sports a wound on the exit side of his rib cage, that indicates that both lungs should have been destroyed. There was a rise in the land between the buck and me, and while in the prone position, I could not see the neck or the heart, to shoot it. I put the bullet through the lungs, as he was exiting the area, and spent the rest of the day, trying to find him. The other failure was on a sow at 110 yards. Bullet hit dead on, where the crosshairs were trained. Half way between the eye and ear, and 1" down. The bullet did not penetrate the skull, but deflected down and exited where the neck and shoulder meet. The hog hit the ground, laid for a couple minutes, then got up and ran off. I had to get my dog to find it. The bullets performed well on 2 other hogs and a cow horn spike, but 2 failures out of 5, is good enough for me to quit them. I never lost any game with the Game Kings or the Ballistic tips. I spent too much money on the Berger bullets and their book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chickm1, post: 1785847, member: 49525"] Bud, I loaded the VLD Hunting bullets this year. Of 5 animals shot, I had 2 failures. One was on a huge WT buck, I shot at 150 yards. Yesterday was 6 weeks later, and I get a picture of the buck on a trail came. The buck has lost 40 lbs, and sports a wound on the exit side of his rib cage, that indicates that both lungs should have been destroyed. There was a rise in the land between the buck and me, and while in the prone position, I could not see the neck or the heart, to shoot it. I put the bullet through the lungs, as he was exiting the area, and spent the rest of the day, trying to find him. The other failure was on a sow at 110 yards. Bullet hit dead on, where the crosshairs were trained. Half way between the eye and ear, and 1" down. The bullet did not penetrate the skull, but deflected down and exited where the neck and shoulder meet. The hog hit the ground, laid for a couple minutes, then got up and ran off. I had to get my dog to find it. The bullets performed well on 2 other hogs and a cow horn spike, but 2 failures out of 5, is good enough for me to quit them. I never lost any game with the Game Kings or the Ballistic tips. I spent too much money on the Berger bullets and their book. [/QUOTE]
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