That's out of the .300 WM. I haven't lost a deer with it, but I generally haven't had the "anchor" effect with it that I grew used to with my .280 shooting the 150 gr. Partition. On that last picture, he had traveled a way before I guess the blockage was pushed out by the build-up inside his boiler and it blew right there. But before that eruption, the deer was moving on me and he still traveled a little further after dumping all that blood. I hunt quite a bit on public land and would like to anchor all at the scene of the shot to keep some a-hole from tagging on me.
I started hunting a bit in Kansas, where the potential range for a shot is that much farther. I thought whatever the .280 could do, the .300 would trump, but I just haven't seen it with the XP3 on deer; again, I think it's ripping through and exiting before enough damage is done. I'm hoping the cheaper Winchester load in the .300 will open up and drop them on the spot!
Last edited by barnold1; 09/08/09.
