I noticed the comment on the 175 gr. Winchester round. It dies gripe me that Big W dropped that loading. I always thought their bullet with that "big blue nose" would be a better killer than Federal's 175 bullet. Both in round nose of course. Never did get a chance to find out as I never could find any to buy when I was looking.
PJ
Interesting that you say this. When I got my FN 24/30, the "common knowledge" around the Upper Connecticut River Valley was that the "big blue nose" Winchester 175 grains openned up more quickly than either the Federals or Remingtons with the smaller amount of exposed lead. The 139 grain CIL ammo that I occasionally got to shoot openned up very quickly and would disintegrate inside of a whitetail, no through and through penetration and just bits and pieces of bullet at the bottom of the pool of blood from the disintegrated lungs.
