Ive killed a truck load of deer with Nosler bullets over the years and for the most part it's been with the .284cal 150 gr Nosler BT. Ive heard and read the "horror stories" of "BT's" just blowing up on the outside of a deer or "I only got 3 inches of penetration" and the deer ran to the county line, we never found it story over the years but I have never had anything but really good performance from them when kept within their design parameters..
The pic is a .284 cal 150 gr Nosler BT shot from a 280 Rem that was recovered from a doe that I shot a couple years ago as she was standing facing me at a whopping 7 yards away as I sat in a ground blind. As noted, the bullet started at 150 grs, recovered weight was 93 grs and that translates into 62% weight retention. Not too shabby for a bullet that started out around the 2860-2900 fps mark..
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