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<blockquote data-quote="LeddSlinger" data-source="post: 958259" data-attributes="member: 65338"><p>I used the 180gr Swift Scirocco II in a 300 win mag one hunting season... And I never used them again. They wouldn't expand. Just pin holed everything. I killed every animal I shot with them, but I like a bullet that opens up a little more to put the animal down right where it's hit. Shot 3 bull elk (my own and helped bring down two for family members who wounded them) and a black bear. So I got a pretty good idea of how they performed. The bear died with one double lung shot after running a ways and all bull elk took multiple shots to bring them down and still had to finish them all off up close. They penetrate extremely well, but a little TOO well in my opinion. Looked like someone stuck a #2 pencil through both lungs and both sides of the hide on my bear, absolutely zero expansion. </p><p></p><p>I can't speak for the 7mm Scirocco bullets, being that the 30 cal was my only experience with them, but I wasn 't very impressed. I expect my experience is probably the same reason you don't hear of many folks using them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LeddSlinger, post: 958259, member: 65338"] I used the 180gr Swift Scirocco II in a 300 win mag one hunting season... And I never used them again. They wouldn't expand. Just pin holed everything. I killed every animal I shot with them, but I like a bullet that opens up a little more to put the animal down right where it's hit. Shot 3 bull elk (my own and helped bring down two for family members who wounded them) and a black bear. So I got a pretty good idea of how they performed. The bear died with one double lung shot after running a ways and all bull elk took multiple shots to bring them down and still had to finish them all off up close. They penetrate extremely well, but a little TOO well in my opinion. Looked like someone stuck a #2 pencil through both lungs and both sides of the hide on my bear, absolutely zero expansion. I can't speak for the 7mm Scirocco bullets, being that the 30 cal was my only experience with them, but I wasn 't very impressed. I expect my experience is probably the same reason you don't hear of many folks using them. [/QUOTE]
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