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<blockquote data-quote="richhymas" data-source="post: 2011763" data-attributes="member: 43504"><p>I second this. Use a welding tip cleaner. Looks like a hand held drill bit. Just make sure the tips are open. Sometimes they are not and that will cause more of a penciling.</p><p></p><p>you cannot have a bullet 215 grains at close range hit the vitals and pencil through and not exit. Either it explodes inside dumping all of its energy into the vitals or it pencils through exiting dumping less than 100% of its energy into the deer</p><p></p><p>if you want a good exit at close range use a Solid bullet. Accuracy is less important inside 400 yards. 1.5 MOA will do. Additionally, ballistic coefficient is not important either. Therefore, try nosler partition or swift A-frame.</p><p>Personally I will stick with berger and accept these limitations until I have a good reason not to. This is true for mule deer and elk in western hunting situations. For grizzly etc inside 100 yards I would use a solid or high weight retention bullet to get through heavy bone and get an exit hole at close range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="richhymas, post: 2011763, member: 43504"] I second this. Use a welding tip cleaner. Looks like a hand held drill bit. Just make sure the tips are open. Sometimes they are not and that will cause more of a penciling. you cannot have a bullet 215 grains at close range hit the vitals and pencil through and not exit. Either it explodes inside dumping all of its energy into the vitals or it pencils through exiting dumping less than 100% of its energy into the deer if you want a good exit at close range use a Solid bullet. Accuracy is less important inside 400 yards. 1.5 MOA will do. Additionally, ballistic coefficient is not important either. Therefore, try nosler partition or swift A-frame. Personally I will stick with berger and accept these limitations until I have a good reason not to. This is true for mule deer and elk in western hunting situations. For grizzly etc inside 100 yards I would use a solid or high weight retention bullet to get through heavy bone and get an exit hole at close range. [/QUOTE]
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