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exploding bullets on impact...is this real or are people guessing?
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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeReaper208" data-source="post: 1754216" data-attributes="member: 56638"><p>Few years back I was guiding a Mountain Goat hunt and the hunter was shooting a Custom 300WSM/Hand-loaded Berger VLD's (not sure of bullet weight) that blew up on contact. Goat was roughly 100 yards and he had to shoot it 4 times before it finally took the death roll down the mountain. When we skinned and quartered the animal the bullets barely penetrated the hide and shrapnel was everywhere except the boiler room. </p><p></p><p>Being that we were extremely close to the goat, this was the only thing I could think of as to why the bullets did not penetrate or function properly. The goat died, but I'm 110% sure it was from being shot? Goat rolled over 1000 feet down a rock slide and most likely died from it!?!? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="♂️" title="Male sign :male_sign:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2642.png" data-shortname=":male_sign:" /></p><p></p><p>Since that hunt I've been very skeptical of Berger VLD's. I'm sure there are folk's who swear by them. I'm a firm believer of the old adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" My rifles prefer the Barnes XXX/TSX/LRX, Hornady ELD-X or Nosler Accu-Bond.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeReaper208, post: 1754216, member: 56638"] Few years back I was guiding a Mountain Goat hunt and the hunter was shooting a Custom 300WSM/Hand-loaded Berger VLD’s (not sure of bullet weight) that blew up on contact. Goat was roughly 100 yards and he had to shoot it 4 times before it finally took the death roll down the mountain. When we skinned and quartered the animal the bullets barely penetrated the hide and shrapnel was everywhere except the boiler room. Being that we were extremely close to the goat, this was the only thing I could think of as to why the bullets did not penetrate or function properly. The goat died, but I’m 110% sure it was from being shot? Goat rolled over 1000 feet down a rock slide and most likely died from it!?!? ♂️ Since that hunt I’ve been very skeptical of Berger VLD’s. I’m sure there are folk’s who swear by them. I’m a firm believer of the old adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” My rifles prefer the Barnes XXX/TSX/LRX, Hornady ELD-X or Nosler Accu-Bond. [/QUOTE]
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