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Berger bullets blowing up?
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<blockquote data-quote="teampete" data-source="post: 574766" data-attributes="member: 30258"><p>Hey all,</p><p> </p><p>I shot a bull this weekend and it took three shots to put him down. I had a couple high shots and one especially that went right through the backstraps and should have broken the spine. Problem is it seemed the bullet exploded upon touching the skin and basically fragmented outside the cavity. There was nothing more than a large hole at the entrance of the bullet. It did not go through the backstrap and break the spine. Also, I missed one shot that made hair fly of the elks neck. Once I recoverd my bull I noticed that it seemed as if the elk had a taken a razor to its spine area. The part that was cut off by the bullet was about 6 inches long and 3 inches wide. One of my buddies said that the bullet blew up which is why the spine looked like it was shaved. Please give me any input as I am scared to use the Bergers again for hunting. FYI the shoot was about 700 yards, I was using 210gr berger hunting vlds out of a 300 win mag with about 2850 FPS. I attached the picture and you can see a few of the bullet shots and let me know what you think.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Dennis</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teampete, post: 574766, member: 30258"] Hey all, I shot a bull this weekend and it took three shots to put him down. I had a couple high shots and one especially that went right through the backstraps and should have broken the spine. Problem is it seemed the bullet exploded upon touching the skin and basically fragmented outside the cavity. There was nothing more than a large hole at the entrance of the bullet. It did not go through the backstrap and break the spine. Also, I missed one shot that made hair fly of the elks neck. Once I recoverd my bull I noticed that it seemed as if the elk had a taken a razor to its spine area. The part that was cut off by the bullet was about 6 inches long and 3 inches wide. One of my buddies said that the bullet blew up which is why the spine looked like it was shaved. Please give me any input as I am scared to use the Bergers again for hunting. FYI the shoot was about 700 yards, I was using 210gr berger hunting vlds out of a 300 win mag with about 2850 FPS. I attached the picture and you can see a few of the bullet shots and let me know what you think. Thanks, Dennis [/QUOTE]
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