All the responders here are just shooting around the edges. The OP asked about experience with the 165 gr AB from the .300 WM on deer and elk. All you guys are trying to steer him somewhere he don't wanna go. I see no problem with BT practice and AB hunting, myself.

Here are pics of a mule deer and an elk taken with the 165 Nosler AB from a .300 Winny. The deer took one shot and the elk two, a redundancy cuz the elk didn't fall as fast as I could work the bolt. All three bullets were double-lung pass-thrus, and the chest cavities of both animals were mush.

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I was hoarding when hoarding wasn't cool.