I used the 255 rnfp, to get a deer once.
It turned into a huge goat rope. The kind where, if killing deer was like that normally,
I would quit hunting. After a lot of shots, I got the deer, but it was horrible.
Those hard round bullets made little pencil holes that closed behind the bullet.
The cluster was made worse by the bevel base basis leading my barrel so bad I couldn't
hit anything but body shots.
Several very poor decisions on my part, but I had been reading the glowing articles on cast bullets
and had just gotten this 45. Brian Pierce has often wrote how effective these bullets can be, and
the most certainly will kill. But so will full metal jackets, eventually.
I have mostly given up the handgun thing, but now 44 and 45's have a good meplat or jhp.
Remember, deer are not that thick. You don't need to be able to shoot through a tank.
But, you need to be making a hole that will do damage. It is a balance thing, I know several
guys that shoot 180 gr jhp in 44 mag. It is not a penetrator, but it goes deep enough to kill
our deer, and does it quickly.
