use to be a 180 and 220 grain RN guy in the northern woods of Minnesota and Wisconsin..

but here in Oregon... if using an 06, I tend to either load a 150 grain Ballistic Tip or a 150 FN Speer..

and my load is usually 30 grains of 4198....

150 yds is normally about as far as I would shoot one, as I am usually in some thick cover it seems...

but either choice has never failed to drop the deer, if I hit the vital zones...

when I manage to miss, I have to laugh, but when I miss, it wasn't even close...

I'm a good shooter and a schidt shooter the other times... with very few times in between the 2 extremes....

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