Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Why did Speer discontinue the Deep Curl bullet?

All & especially the Gunwriters:

This is a bit of old history, however, I came across some pretty cheap Federal ammo loaded with this bullet and was attempting to figure out why it was discontinued.

I have been doing some internet research on this, and could not locate anything convincing.

Wasn't clear if it was for technical or business reasons. From a technical perspective, it require different loading data and maybe they had some QC issues, but wasn't clear how this may have contributed to the decision to discontinue.

I suppose my primary concern surrounds the overall performance of the bullet in terms of inherent accuracy and terminal ballistics. Were there any concerns with this bullet from that perspective?

Specifically, the "stuff" I am looking at is the 180 gr bullet loaded in 300 win mag. I would be this on whitetails and nothing larger. I guess a key question would be - do the Deep Curls offer anything over the Hot Core bullet when it comes to Whitetails?

Thanks

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