Is that a barn door blown out if the side of your lope? For me, that's not a good thing. Which is why I went away from Berger's. I still shoot the 170s out of my 270 WSM, but it's my 600+ yard bullet. I just couldn't lose half my little blacktail deer meat to a bullet being so destructive. Maybe the key is to use them in a caliber where the starting velocity is 2800 not 3000+?? I just realized you started yours below 2800 and still got the grenade effect...
I switched to the Berger 150g VLD Hunting in my 270 this season. Took does at 81yds and 203yds. Both high shoulder broadside. MV 2900fps. Performed as designed in both. They did not explode. Entry was hard to find. Exit was large. Devastating.
That's what I was shooting and I kept having so much blood shot and losing the offside shoulder and ribs so I went away from them. I was hoping for a nice golf ball size hole only.I switched to the Berger 150g VLD Hunting in my 270 this season. Took does at 81yds and 203yds. Both high shoulder broadside. MV 2900fps. Performed as designed in both. They did not explode. Entry was hard to find. Exit was large. Devastating.
Here's one I had last year on a 225 lb boar. Bullet went thru the armored shoulder plate, blew up on the shoulder blade, never broke it or entered the diaphragm and on thr opposite side you can see no exit. 280 yds. 6.5 with 130s. Went splat, no pencil, no penetration. Dogs slowed it up in a creek bed and I killed it with my Glock 9mm. Head shot. I've had some bad luck with them. I still use the 170s but only at long distance. They seem to work well. I'm also having really good luck with the 7mm 168 grain Accubond Accubond LR despite what people have said about them too. So far, great performance.I only shoot bergers. Never had a failure.
Totally agree! I shoot antelopes with a nice mild load in my 257 Roberts. No more 270 wsm on lopes. Gotta save every bite on those goats. I love that meat. HaMatching the right bullet to the right shot placement and distance and people will have a more harmonious outcome.
I cut an antelope in half with a 140 accubonds in my 270 WSM starting at 3350 fps and shot him way too close, pulled the trigger and there was hair everywhere, looked like an antelope bomb went of. Buddy 30 seconds before put a Berger 62 gr varmint bullet from a 22-250 into a doe and she dropped with just a pin hole entrance middle jellow. Doesn't mean one kind of bullet is better than another, might mean you picked the wrong bullet in the brand of bullet. Not every bullet in every cal works best for every capacity case.
Totally agree! I shoot antelopes with a nice mild load in my 257 Roberts. No more 270 wsm on lopes. Gotta save every bite on those goats. I love that meat. Ha
Is that a barn door blown out if the side of your lope? For me, that's not a good thing. Which is why I went away from Berger's. I still shoot the 170s out of my 270 WSM, but it's my 600+ yard bullet. I just couldn't lose half my little blacktail deer meat to a bullet being so destructive. Maybe the key is to use them in a caliber where the starting velocity is 2800 not 3000+?? I just realized you started yours below 2800 and still got the grenade effect...