Despite all the negative reports I've read in this thread....
the 15 years I lived in Minnesota and hunted Northern MN and Northern Wisconsin for those 15 years.
It was the only bullet I used, in factory produced ammo for my 30/06.
IT NEVER failed, regardless of distance. I wanted a round that would put a deer down on the spot, because you get a runner in those northern swamps.. good luck retrieving it...The furthest distance I ever shot a deer with it, was at 300 yds +...across a Wisconsin swamp.
Had to walk a good 1/2 mile or more around the swamp to locate the buck, I'd shot on the other side. When I came upon it, it was laying dead and had a little blood spot on its right side, right behind the shoulder... I turned it over, and it had another quarter sized exit hole, and there was 5 or 6 corn kernals laying on the ground with the exit hole.. and not much blood laying on the ground....
When I cut it open to gut it, the lungs and the top of the liver looked like it had been stirred with a chain saw....
Snow on the ground, showed it had dropped at my shot, DRT.. Never knew what hit him...
With that much sectional density of a 220 grainer, when I shoot it at steel at 300 yds, it certainly hits that plate with authority...
its FT/LB numbers may not look real impressive on a from a reload manual... but when it hits, it certainly will penetrate thru right quite a bit.
I've never recovered a bullet when using the 220 grain RN...be it corelokt, or a Hornady or Sierra S.P.
If I need a bullet with some real thump when using an 06 or 300 Win Mag, it is the one I purchased... Been handloading since 1995.
With RL 22 in an 06, you get 2650 fps at the Muzzle... with 83 grains of H1000 in a 300 Win Mag with it, its MV is just short of 3000 fps.
The way the 300 Win Mag slaps a steel gong at 300 yds, with that bullet, is IMPRESSIVE. Certainly gets the attention of others down at the Shooting Range.
