Reviewed by 7 customers
Submitted 9 years ago
By echale3
From Roanoke, VA
Verified Reviewer
I've shot 6 deer with this bullet loaded over 64 grains of H414. It killed them all, all but one DRT.
Four rounds completely passed through the deer, two did not. Of the two that did not, one was a 20 yard neck shot where the bullet blew up when it hit the deer's spine, the other one, a 140 yard shot, blew up when it hit the deer's shoulder joint. The neck shot almost decapitated the deer. The shoulder shot one opened up the front side of the ribcage, and the lungs and heart were hanging out. Despite that, the deer managed to hobble about 20 yards from the point of impact.
In all cases, I lost a fair bit of meat due to being blood shot and mangled.
I think that this slug would give good terminal performance in something a little less zippy than a magnum 30 caliber cartridge (like a 30-06 or 308), or maybe in a magnum cartridge with reduced loads. If you are using it in a full-house load in a magnum cartridge, it should do well at longer ranges where the impact velocity isn't as high--the accuracy potential certainly is there for this to do well at long ranges.
- Pros
- Accuracy
- Cons
- Not Good In Magnum 30 Cal
- Poor Performance
- Poor Quality
- Severe Meat Loss
- Was this a gift?
- No
- Describe Yourself
- Enthusiast, Home Owner, Hunter / Fisherman
Submitted 10 years ago
By jbran267
From woodville, al
Verified Reviewer
This bullet shoots very accurately in my Tikka 30-06, with a moderate charge of IMR 4064. I have used it on approximately 6 deer, all here in Alabama so they were generally on the small side. On a significant number of them, I recovered large pieces of the jacket. Devastating exit wounds, typical of ballistic tips. I wouldn't recommend it on larger, tougher animals. I also wouldn't recommend it at higher velocities.
For deer, it will kill them dead, but terminal performance would be better if it were a bonded core.
They do look cool loaded with nickel cases. I get a lot of vampire comments from people who see my ammo.
- Pros
- Accuracy
- Best for
- Hunting
- Was this a gift?
- No
- Describe Yourself
- Enthusiast, Hunter / Fisherman