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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 1713830" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>I have had the same results with Partitions - exit holes that look just like entry holes; lung soup inside the rib cage. I think that you called it correctly about the jacket petals folding back along the shank to make a smaller exit wound. Not much for blood trails, but most of the animals went down right where they were hit and I didn't need a blood trail. I got the same type of performance from the Hornady GMX. They didn't turn the lungs to jelly like the Partitions did, but they scrambled them well enough to make the animals really sick.</p><p></p><p>By the way - I'm talking about shooting deer with 165 & 180-grain bullets in a 30-06. I started doing this a long time ago when I got tired of the baseball-sized exit wounds I was getting from using 150-grain factory loads in the 308, and throwing away both shoulders due to blood-shot meat. That load was the old "red-box" Federal, with the Hi-Shok bullet. This bullet was said to be a bomb, and when I moved to Montana everybody told me not to shoot elk with it. Of course, I did anyway, and it knocked down elk quite handily. I wouldn't have thought that a bullet that trashed the whole front end of the whitetails I had been shooting with it back in Pennsylvania would be stiff enough for the larger animals, but every one I ever shot into an elk held together well enough to get all the way through the animal. Most were rib cage shots, but I did break a few shoulders here & there. Hitting the shoulder on the way out is what produced most of the really ghastly exit wounds, in both deer and elk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 1713830, member: 109113"] I have had the same results with Partitions - exit holes that look just like entry holes; lung soup inside the rib cage. I think that you called it correctly about the jacket petals folding back along the shank to make a smaller exit wound. Not much for blood trails, but most of the animals went down right where they were hit and I didn't need a blood trail. I got the same type of performance from the Hornady GMX. They didn't turn the lungs to jelly like the Partitions did, but they scrambled them well enough to make the animals really sick. By the way - I'm talking about shooting deer with 165 & 180-grain bullets in a 30-06. I started doing this a long time ago when I got tired of the baseball-sized exit wounds I was getting from using 150-grain factory loads in the 308, and throwing away both shoulders due to blood-shot meat. That load was the old "red-box" Federal, with the Hi-Shok bullet. This bullet was said to be a bomb, and when I moved to Montana everybody told me not to shoot elk with it. Of course, I did anyway, and it knocked down elk quite handily. I wouldn't have thought that a bullet that trashed the whole front end of the whitetails I had been shooting with it back in Pennsylvania would be stiff enough for the larger animals, but every one I ever shot into an elk held together well enough to get all the way through the animal. Most were rib cage shots, but I did break a few shoulders here & there. Hitting the shoulder on the way out is what produced most of the really ghastly exit wounds, in both deer and elk. [/QUOTE]
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