I am back!!! After a long hiatus, I was able to get on a decent deer lease this fall. Lets talk Whitetail bullets.......
I have three rifles to gear up for this season since variety is the spice of life and I am thinking about what ammunition choices for each.
Savage 99 in 300 savage......Hornady Super performance ....sst 150 grain
Custom Mauser ( harry lawson ) .300 win mag......???? ( however I do have .300 win mag lite from hornady with a 150 grain sst with the idea of texas whitetails shot with the .300 win at 70 yards)
Winchester 70 .308...............????? accubond..........balistic tip.....maybe sst
Having an explosion with a corelokt back in the day looking for something else.
Pretty much all of the above, plus some others, notably Partitions.
Been a long time now, I believe, since most Core-Lokts went straight cup and core. The 180gr .30/06 factory stuff I killed my biggest deer with in 1996 failed to penetrate through his shoulders, a far cry from the elk, moose, and bear load, I thought it was. DRT nonetheless. Since I try for the chest just above the heart, bullet choice isn't critical for me.
