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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1212369" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Swift SciroccoII.</p><p></p><p>They fly great and hold together excellently but they are just too soft for African game. On both my big warthog and Blue Wildebeest the bullets flattened out like an inch in diameter and thus would not penetrate deeply enough for a clean kill. That's how I got introduced to the Perigrine Bullets which of course performed exactly as expected.</p><p></p><p>I've also had the same problem with them up close on such things as white tailed deer.</p><p></p><p>I was shooting them in the 130gr (maybe 140 I'd have to look) in my .260 AR and a little cull buck we'd been wanting to get rid of popped out at about 90yds. My shot was a tad low hitting on the high side of the sternum (broadside shot).</p><p></p><p>When I opened him up the track was skin, muscle, sternum then shot straight up through the heart coming to rest in the spine! It too was as flat and about the same size as a quarter.</p><p></p><p>Maybe those were flukes but when flukes repeat too often I start looking for a solution elsewhere. I truly believe the problem is that their jackets are too thin and too soft. Their bonding process is out of this world because they retained about 90% of their weight or more in spite of being so overly flattened out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1212369, member: 30902"] Swift SciroccoII. They fly great and hold together excellently but they are just too soft for African game. On both my big warthog and Blue Wildebeest the bullets flattened out like an inch in diameter and thus would not penetrate deeply enough for a clean kill. That's how I got introduced to the Perigrine Bullets which of course performed exactly as expected. I've also had the same problem with them up close on such things as white tailed deer. I was shooting them in the 130gr (maybe 140 I'd have to look) in my .260 AR and a little cull buck we'd been wanting to get rid of popped out at about 90yds. My shot was a tad low hitting on the high side of the sternum (broadside shot). When I opened him up the track was skin, muscle, sternum then shot straight up through the heart coming to rest in the spine! It too was as flat and about the same size as a quarter. Maybe those were flukes but when flukes repeat too often I start looking for a solution elsewhere. I truly believe the problem is that their jackets are too thin and too soft. Their bonding process is out of this world because they retained about 90% of their weight or more in spite of being so overly flattened out. [/QUOTE]
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