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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1712916" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>It has been a loooooog time since I shot any deer with a Hornady bullet in anything. Out of the 7mm Rem mag I guess I shot a half dozen of so deer with the 139 gr. None of them ever exited and the deer always ran off a ways and left very little to no blood trail. I lost the meat from one pretty good buck because there was NO blood trail. I found it a few days latter when the buzzards were one it. It looked like it had died in full stride and slid into a patch of kudzu that I had walked all around it. I switched to the 154 interlock and I had better results and it always exited with maybe a quarter size hole. If you want BIG exit holes get you some Berger VLDs. Thy blow baseball size exits. I also tried some of the Hornady 117 Inter locks in a 25-06. Exits were not really large, about index finger size. I had a few runners with this bullet also. Found the 117 Sierra that dropped deer in their tracks 99.9 % of the time and never looked back. By the way the 7mm Rem mag was the worst caliber I ever used on white tail deer no matter which bullet make or weight I tried back in the late 1980s early 1990s for deer running a good distance after taking a perfect behind the shoulder shot. I can't explain it but they would run 100 or so yards and would slosh on the inside when I found them but they still ran. I was hunting and doing crop damage control in east NC and if a deer ran out of the fields the surrounding area was THICK jungle or swamp and it would have been hard to trail a chalk line in that stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1712916, member: 10178"] It has been a loooooog time since I shot any deer with a Hornady bullet in anything. Out of the 7mm Rem mag I guess I shot a half dozen of so deer with the 139 gr. None of them ever exited and the deer always ran off a ways and left very little to no blood trail. I lost the meat from one pretty good buck because there was NO blood trail. I found it a few days latter when the buzzards were one it. It looked like it had died in full stride and slid into a patch of kudzu that I had walked all around it. I switched to the 154 interlock and I had better results and it always exited with maybe a quarter size hole. If you want BIG exit holes get you some Berger VLDs. Thy blow baseball size exits. I also tried some of the Hornady 117 Inter locks in a 25-06. Exits were not really large, about index finger size. I had a few runners with this bullet also. Found the 117 Sierra that dropped deer in their tracks 99.9 % of the time and never looked back. By the way the 7mm Rem mag was the worst caliber I ever used on white tail deer no matter which bullet make or weight I tried back in the late 1980s early 1990s for deer running a good distance after taking a perfect behind the shoulder shot. I can't explain it but they would run 100 or so yards and would slosh on the inside when I found them but they still ran. I was hunting and doing crop damage control in east NC and if a deer ran out of the fields the surrounding area was THICK jungle or swamp and it would have been hard to trail a chalk line in that stuff. [/QUOTE]
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