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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1288169" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>Some of thee best bullets I've shot on game which have a flawless track record was the 165 Matrix in the 270 cal, it has lead right to below the tip, it's essentially plugged yet performance was perfect from 80 yards to 900+ on bull elk. I don't think the tip thing is perfectly sorted out as to exactly how it functions in some bullets. I tell every noob to open tip bullets to check them but I honestly have not checked tips for years, I personally have only seen one pencil in a hundred + animals. Looking at bullet function over the years the Berger type open tip match bullet has been far more consistent performing than I ever saw from Barnes and accubonds, even testing bullets like the CEB and ELDX I saw more variables and more bullet holes per kill. </p><p>This could be my personal shot placement just works better with the open tip type cup and core bullet, but the last time we saw a melt down on the forum the 6.5 140 was one of the blowing up penciling bullets that someone saw fail 100% and since I shoot a lot of these I deliberately took on the task to try to make one blow up or pencil, I started out at 3234fps, first shot was a heavy quartering cow elk so I put it low in the shoulder and she made it two steps and slide 300 yards to my feet, the bullet destroyed the largest shoulder bone, blew a hole into her chest and destroyed all the arteries at the front of the chest then ended under the hide in the neck in front of the shoulder, epic performance!!</p><p>Second attempt for a failure was a mule deer buck at 300, I out the bullet at the back of the lungs high, no bone was touched, he ran 75 yards and piled up, blood was every where and chunks of lung were hanging out the hole, epic performance yet again with an exact opposite kind of hit!! </p><p>I simple can not find a better bullet than an open tip match for elk, so far I can only think of one bull that I shot twice but the first one wrecked him, everything else was one shot and a few steps flopping over, I've recovered every animal I've shot at with them as well, short of killing two with one shot I can't get a better percentage!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1288169, member: 13632"] Some of thee best bullets I've shot on game which have a flawless track record was the 165 Matrix in the 270 cal, it has lead right to below the tip, it's essentially plugged yet performance was perfect from 80 yards to 900+ on bull elk. I don't think the tip thing is perfectly sorted out as to exactly how it functions in some bullets. I tell every noob to open tip bullets to check them but I honestly have not checked tips for years, I personally have only seen one pencil in a hundred + animals. Looking at bullet function over the years the Berger type open tip match bullet has been far more consistent performing than I ever saw from Barnes and accubonds, even testing bullets like the CEB and ELDX I saw more variables and more bullet holes per kill. This could be my personal shot placement just works better with the open tip type cup and core bullet, but the last time we saw a melt down on the forum the 6.5 140 was one of the blowing up penciling bullets that someone saw fail 100% and since I shoot a lot of these I deliberately took on the task to try to make one blow up or pencil, I started out at 3234fps, first shot was a heavy quartering cow elk so I put it low in the shoulder and she made it two steps and slide 300 yards to my feet, the bullet destroyed the largest shoulder bone, blew a hole into her chest and destroyed all the arteries at the front of the chest then ended under the hide in the neck in front of the shoulder, epic performance!! Second attempt for a failure was a mule deer buck at 300, I out the bullet at the back of the lungs high, no bone was touched, he ran 75 yards and piled up, blood was every where and chunks of lung were hanging out the hole, epic performance yet again with an exact opposite kind of hit!! I simple can not find a better bullet than an open tip match for elk, so far I can only think of one bull that I shot twice but the first one wrecked him, everything else was one shot and a few steps flopping over, I've recovered every animal I've shot at with them as well, short of killing two with one shot I can't get a better percentage!! [/QUOTE]
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