Since we’re piling on the VLD, I have a story. I worked up a load for my nephew’s 7mm-08, 140 VLD-Hunting, great precision and close to 2900 fps at the muzzle. He shot a smallish Mule deer buck at around 325 yards right behind the shoulder. I was on a spotter so I saw the impact, excellent placement. The buck hunched up, swapped ends, and started trotting to the fenceline, beyond which we did not have permission to hunt.
Bam, another shot through the chest, this time on the opposite side. The buck kept going toward the fence and stopped. Probably didn’t have enough juice to jump, who knows, but shot #3 put him down.
Pencils. Lucky he wasn’t bigger.
A sample size of 1 tells you exactly nothing, but I never had Partitions talk back to me like that.
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