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berger failure?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wile E Coyote" data-source="post: 775403" data-attributes="member: 28381"><p>There was a thread or two about this very topic not too long ago. </p><p> </p><p>My own <strong><em>non-expert</em></strong> opinion on a Berger Hunting VLD not expanding in a whitetail deer is one or a combination of the following:</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A) Velocity is too high. The bullet doesnt have enough time to interrupt or 'open up.'</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">B) The 'Hollow Point' is damaged, closed, or clogged with ??? and therefore not working as expected.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">C) Poor shot placement such as. (lots of space for argument here)<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">not hitting the heart. Will run some but will eventually fall.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">not hitting a crippling shot. By that I mean breaking a shoulder or spine. With a shot like this, the animal is then incapacitated and cannot run (at least not too far).</li> </ol></li> </ol><p>Let me add one thing and that is I like shooting VLD's!!!!!. Accurate, flat shooting, all the superlatives.... Now however, when I use them to hunt whitetail deer, I look to hit the shoulder blade so they have something hard to hit. My deer this year was hit this way and it didn't go 30 yards. The deer I got 2 years ago (my first experience with VLD's while hunting), the bullet penciled through and she ran a half mile or more. Fortunately, that was the direction back to the truck. </p><p>Just my view.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wile E Coyote, post: 775403, member: 28381"] There was a thread or two about this very topic not too long ago. My own [B][I]non-expert[/I][/B] opinion on a Berger Hunting VLD not expanding in a whitetail deer is one or a combination of the following: [LIST=1] [*]A) Velocity is too high. The bullet doesnt have enough time to interrupt or 'open up.' [*]B) The 'Hollow Point' is damaged, closed, or clogged with ??? and therefore not working as expected. [*]C) Poor shot placement such as. (lots of space for argument here)[LIST=1] [*]not hitting the heart. Will run some but will eventually fall. [*]not hitting a crippling shot. By that I mean breaking a shoulder or spine. With a shot like this, the animal is then incapacitated and cannot run (at least not too far). [/LIST] [/LIST]Let me add one thing and that is I like shooting VLD's!!!!!. Accurate, flat shooting, all the superlatives.... Now however, when I use them to hunt whitetail deer, I look to hit the shoulder blade so they have something hard to hit. My deer this year was hit this way and it didn't go 30 yards. The deer I got 2 years ago (my first experience with VLD's while hunting), the bullet penciled through and she ran a half mile or more. Fortunately, that was the direction back to the truck. Just my view. [/QUOTE]
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