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Sorry dutchboy, i did`nt have time to get to the point in the last post. The question was, do premium bullets like the failsafe`s and partitions kill faster than standard bullets. Now it`s been stated here before, dead is dead, and one can`t argue that. But how many seconds does it take for a given animal to expire is what i think the discussion is about. Okay, what i find is no, more explosive bullets kill faster. But as rocky stated, (just trying to save denton and dutch some burros, lol) my "study" is on deer weighing 200 LBS or less, and quietly eating undisturbed. Now there is a huge difference in a mature buck, pumped full of adrenilen running for his life. The 125 BT and similar bullets win, but not by much, in other words, put a projectile into the lungs, the animal will die. The 125`s at .308 velocity (3000 FPS) will exit any shot you want to take but the full on chest shot with deer 200 pounds or less. I will have to guess that was with somewhere around 150 deer killed, zero failures. It does`nt take a super premium bullet to kill a deer reliably and quickly, but if anybody wants to hold the stop watch and try to prove me wrong, i`m game, lol. While we`re here, rocky mentioned standard bullets and resonable velocities. Check this out. A 168 gr. red prarie bullet at 2600 fps will not exit a deer period. A 125 BT at 3000 fps will. Now add a 1000 fps to both bullets and shoot groundhogs. The 168 will absolutly vaporize one, the 125 will not exit, the skin will have stretch marks from the internal explosion, but no exit, go figure.