I loaded up some ballistic tips in my 7mm Rem Mag for deer hunting this fall to see what the difference would be in terminal performance on whitetails versus factory ammo. I may have overdone things. Took a neck shot on a doe at about 60 yards. The exit hole nearly encompassed the entire width of the off side of the neck. I also shot a doe at a similar range in the chest. She was slightly quartering towards me, and the bullet exited 3 or 4 inches in front of the diaphram. However, the fragmentation was such that the diaphram and stomach were both ruptured.
Now the whole idea was to shorten tracking jobs and drop the deer on the spot, but this seems a bit extreme.
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