I don't like premium bullets for deer. I don't want my bullet to retain all it's weight and punch through the deer only to shed it's energy into a tree. I want my bullet to shed it's weight and energy inside the deer.
I'm with you on this. Why use a 300 mag to shoot deer in the first place?
Well....because we could.....and did
Pals and I used to get a load that would handle both elk on down because we frequently hunted elk, and deer in the same season...so there ya go...we used all kinds of bullets in the 165-200 weight range but the 165 Nosler Partition and the 165 BBC driven to 3250 or so worked so well on big bodied mule and whitetail deer(and elk),in so many places from Central Canada through eastern Colorado, that we just grabbed it for everything.
I would respectfully disagree with the notion that a bullet kills these big deer better if it comes unglued and stays inside....I've had some very devastating results(much more than once)with the 165 Partition(you won't recover many),and the BBC(which fragments not at all),that it dispells the notion pretty thoroughly in my mind.
Chest hit with these from a 300 WM,nothing goes far, if it moves at all.....
