Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Another Berger VLD failure !

Exactly. There are so many contradictions in 6.5wnitetail's post that it's hard to figure out exactly what the complaint it.

I shot another big game animal with a Berger VLD this fall, a pronghorn buck at about 160 yards with a 140 from a 6.5-06. The buck was angled slightly away, so I aimed for the middle of the ribs. The bullet did the usual VLD thing: went in a couple of inches before turning to shrapnel and making a huge mess of the lungs. The buck went about 30 feet (not yards) before going down.

Part of the bullet exited at the rear edge of the far shoulder, but that doesn't matter one way or the other. What matters is that the bullet killed the pronghorn, pronto, like every other VLD I've seen hit an animal in the chest.