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Why Doesn't Berger make a Bonded Bullet??
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<blockquote data-quote="Wachsmann" data-source="post: 1758044" data-attributes="member: 10429"><p><em>For me I never seen a Berger blow up. What I have seen is the bullet turned inside out and the lead just fall out the back side or not even be there. My wife used a 87 grain VLD on her mule deer buck at about 300 yards. No issues about 10 yards and dirt. I've used one out of a 257 weatherby at 400 yards and same result. Bullet was stuck in the off side hide on the shoulder. Both antelope I shot at 200 and 268 were complete pass through (257 also). I used a 220 grain on a mule deer buck at 761 yards and it had hit high in the back rib bone section and ended up somewhere in the chest cavity or guts. I never found the bullet but no exit hole just a lot of blood in the cavity. This was from a 300 RUM. Deer was DRT. I dont think the bullet blew up at that distance but it did not pass through either. But for as I can tell it worked since the deer just flopped over dead. Use what you like and what you put trust in and what you shoot well enough that you have confidence in when you out hunting. That what I think. I also have been realizing as I get older I dont need a 338 Lapua to take and elk. Especially when you have guys taking elk with 260AI and 156 grain bergers. Dont get me wrong the 338 is probably really good elk medicine but so was the 260AI that one of the guys used. Dead is dead. </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wachsmann, post: 1758044, member: 10429"] [I]For me I never seen a Berger blow up. What I have seen is the bullet turned inside out and the lead just fall out the back side or not even be there. My wife used a 87 grain VLD on her mule deer buck at about 300 yards. No issues about 10 yards and dirt. I've used one out of a 257 weatherby at 400 yards and same result. Bullet was stuck in the off side hide on the shoulder. Both antelope I shot at 200 and 268 were complete pass through (257 also). I used a 220 grain on a mule deer buck at 761 yards and it had hit high in the back rib bone section and ended up somewhere in the chest cavity or guts. I never found the bullet but no exit hole just a lot of blood in the cavity. This was from a 300 RUM. Deer was DRT. I dont think the bullet blew up at that distance but it did not pass through either. But for as I can tell it worked since the deer just flopped over dead. Use what you like and what you put trust in and what you shoot well enough that you have confidence in when you out hunting. That what I think. I also have been realizing as I get older I dont need a 338 Lapua to take and elk. Especially when you have guys taking elk with 260AI and 156 grain bergers. Dont get me wrong the 338 is probably really good elk medicine but so was the 260AI that one of the guys used. Dead is dead. [/I] [/QUOTE]
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