Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Partition, 30-06, 165 vs 180 for all-around?

I've watched friends use the 165 Partition on a fair amount of stuff from elk down through black bear and deer,and for quite some time we could not recover any,as the penetrated very well and mostly exited the smaller stuff completely.A buddy used them on two elk and they exited those as well.I've used them from a 300 Win Mag started at 3200 on bucks in Saskatchewan,and they blew on through.For those who prefer pass-throughs on deer-size stuff, they work well.

I sat on the sideline and watched my brother shoot a big 5x5 bull elk at app 300 yards from a 30/06. We recovered the bullet from the offside shoulder area, under the hide, the base sorta squashed a bit.I would not hesitate to use the 165 on anything up through elk size.