I like somewhat soft bullet on deer.
Any experience with the 85 grain boat tail Speer?
Yup took a pretty good blacktail... 200 pounds, and a real nice 4 x 4 rack with one...
Load was 30 grains of 4198.... shot him at about 40 yds or so...
Bang flop.... what did concern me, even tho it dropped the deer on the spot, with a behind the shoulder shot,
when gutting him I did not find the bullet, and it didn't have an exit wound...
The Butch Shop found it,, pretty much used up... it only weighed about 20 grains..
Certainly did the job and I'm sure the shot placement didn't hurt the results...
But I would have hopped that it had retained more weight, and would give me further confidence in its abilities on later hunts...
but since then, I've been using the 90 grain Speer SP instead... suppose to be a tougher bullet.
