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Do it all Bullet for 30-06?
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1001392" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>As to the "slow killing bullets" the answer is bullet placement. When it really comes down to REAL eatable meat there is not much on a deers front shoulders. If you place a 165 BT in the center to top 1/3rd of a deers shoulder it usually will be BANG FLOP. I helped do crop damage control on a huge farm in NC for 15 years where my buddy and I took 100 deer a year. We shot them with about everything from a stick to a 45-70. Deer game constructed Ballistic Tips kill game really well if you keep the impact velocity under 3000 fps. The 165 BT will expand more rapidly and shed more weight in the average deer than the AB. Don't get me wrong the AB is a great bullet with the best of both the BT and Partition. It flies great and is accurate and starts to open up like the BT but it holds together like the partition and keeps on trucking through things. The ballistic tips are quite a bit cheaper than the accubonds though. If you ever decide to go with different loads for deer and elk give the 125 ballistic tip a try for deer and keep the impact velocity under 3000 fps. I have gone exclusively to this in all my 30 cal stuff. It kills deer awesomely, BANG FLOP. On a side note you mentioned the Speer 150 GS. The only GS I ever used was on deer out of a 25-06. It was a very accurate bullet and man would it penetrate. If I ever had to use a 25-06 for elk it would be loaded with this bullet. It was too toughly constructed for my liking for deer. I only recovered one bullet out of 20+. It was from a buck shot at only about 30 yards that was facing me. Shot it in the chest with muzzle velocity of 3000 fps and recovered it just under the hide in a ham after smashing through the ball joint. Started out at 120 grs recovered weight was 87 grs with text book mushroom. Buck fell on his butt and fell over on his side and kicked once and was dead. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Just some food for thought. Good luck and good hunting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1001392, member: 10178"] As to the "slow killing bullets" the answer is bullet placement. When it really comes down to REAL eatable meat there is not much on a deers front shoulders. If you place a 165 BT in the center to top 1/3rd of a deers shoulder it usually will be BANG FLOP. I helped do crop damage control on a huge farm in NC for 15 years where my buddy and I took 100 deer a year. We shot them with about everything from a stick to a 45-70. Deer game constructed Ballistic Tips kill game really well if you keep the impact velocity under 3000 fps. The 165 BT will expand more rapidly and shed more weight in the average deer than the AB. Don't get me wrong the AB is a great bullet with the best of both the BT and Partition. It flies great and is accurate and starts to open up like the BT but it holds together like the partition and keeps on trucking through things. The ballistic tips are quite a bit cheaper than the accubonds though. If you ever decide to go with different loads for deer and elk give the 125 ballistic tip a try for deer and keep the impact velocity under 3000 fps. I have gone exclusively to this in all my 30 cal stuff. It kills deer awesomely, BANG FLOP. On a side note you mentioned the Speer 150 GS. The only GS I ever used was on deer out of a 25-06. It was a very accurate bullet and man would it penetrate. If I ever had to use a 25-06 for elk it would be loaded with this bullet. It was too toughly constructed for my liking for deer. I only recovered one bullet out of 20+. It was from a buck shot at only about 30 yards that was facing me. Shot it in the chest with muzzle velocity of 3000 fps and recovered it just under the hide in a ham after smashing through the ball joint. Started out at 120 grs recovered weight was 87 grs with text book mushroom. Buck fell on his butt and fell over on his side and kicked once and was dead. :D Just some food for thought. Good luck and good hunting. [/QUOTE]
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