The first half-dozen or so Texas whitetails that I shot with the .30-06 that I bought the summer that I graduated high school were taken with W-W factory ammo and 150-grain Silver Tips. Being totally clueless about the finer points of bullet performance, I was just glad to have dead deer. I don't recall any particularly destructive aftermaths and, best I can recall, they were all one-shot kills.
When I started reloading a few years later, I used both Speer and Sierra 150-grain bullets. My experiences with those started me down the road to 30 years of shooting nothing but Partitions at big game.
Last edited by mudhen; 03/28/17.
