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Berger close up on game performance
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<blockquote data-quote="bearcat2" data-source="post: 1744673" data-attributes="member: 18832"><p>I shoot 180 VLDs out of a 7mm STW at approx 3100 fps. I've shot I about 10 elk and around the same number of deer (mixed bag, muley and whitetail) with that load as well as had some other people shoot game with my rifle. Of those elk two were shot in the timber at around fifty yards while all the others were between 475 and 820 yards. Several deer were shot between 20 and 200 yards while the rifle and load has shot at least 10 deer between 300 and 770. I'm not actually a huge fan of Berger's performance on game, they seem to kill fairly well but I don't see a lot of knock down. </p><p>At close ranges I have seen them grenade, after 300 they usually exit and the only ones I have recovered are elk that have hit a big bone like one or both shoulders, those have all been mushroomed perfectly. I shot an elk last year at 625, first shot quartering away a little went through the lungs and far shouler and exited, second shot quartering on took out the near shoulder and lungs again, recovered under the hide on the far side. I love their long range accuracy and they perform just like I want at longer ranges, I don't hesitate at a quartering on shot, I've never had a quartering on shot that I shot in the point of the shoulder that didn't result in a DRT on either deer or elk. At close ranges I am a little nervous about trying to punch through an elk shoulder though.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line it is really difficult to make a bullet that will perform the same at 3100 fps as it will at 1800 fps. Berger makes a long range bullet, it performs admirably at lower velocities and longer ranges. Everything is a compromise though and they tend to perform more like the ballistic tips at close ranges, and while that is all right on perfect broadside shots I want a bullet that will hold together and punch through bone when needed. I'll continue to use them because I use that rifle primarily for longer ranges, but I don't use them in my timber rifles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bearcat2, post: 1744673, member: 18832"] I shoot 180 VLDs out of a 7mm STW at approx 3100 fps. I've shot I about 10 elk and around the same number of deer (mixed bag, muley and whitetail) with that load as well as had some other people shoot game with my rifle. Of those elk two were shot in the timber at around fifty yards while all the others were between 475 and 820 yards. Several deer were shot between 20 and 200 yards while the rifle and load has shot at least 10 deer between 300 and 770. I'm not actually a huge fan of Berger's performance on game, they seem to kill fairly well but I don't see a lot of knock down. At close ranges I have seen them grenade, after 300 they usually exit and the only ones I have recovered are elk that have hit a big bone like one or both shoulders, those have all been mushroomed perfectly. I shot an elk last year at 625, first shot quartering away a little went through the lungs and far shouler and exited, second shot quartering on took out the near shoulder and lungs again, recovered under the hide on the far side. I love their long range accuracy and they perform just like I want at longer ranges, I don't hesitate at a quartering on shot, I've never had a quartering on shot that I shot in the point of the shoulder that didn't result in a DRT on either deer or elk. At close ranges I am a little nervous about trying to punch through an elk shoulder though. Bottom line it is really difficult to make a bullet that will perform the same at 3100 fps as it will at 1800 fps. Berger makes a long range bullet, it performs admirably at lower velocities and longer ranges. Everything is a compromise though and they tend to perform more like the ballistic tips at close ranges, and while that is all right on perfect broadside shots I want a bullet that will hold together and punch through bone when needed. I'll continue to use them because I use that rifle primarily for longer ranges, but I don't use them in my timber rifles. [/QUOTE]
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