I personally don't like Berger VLDH because my very first kill, an average size whitetail buck, shot behind the shoulder, looked like the bullet exploded at impact. A very dead, blown up deer was the result, given this was only a 100yd shot. I've shot about 20 hogs with that same load and was equally unimpressed. Had I not seen where these hogs ran off to, after impact, I would have never found them. No exit, no blood, nothing.
I am NOT saying they won't kill and elk though, as I've only killed one in my life, with a 7mm 160 partition though.
Stuff I've killed dropped dead, but there was a lot of tissue damage, sorta messy at the skinning shed.
I use 140 VLDH's in my 6.5-284, running them at 3K over 48 gr. RL-17. I'm going to see how well that gun shoots the new 147 ELD and plan to try 139 Scenars.
Seems a big bonus with the VLD is good expansion and fast kills at extended range, great ballistics and accuracy.
I don't LR shoot WT's, sometimes pronghorns.
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