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actually it was a center lung shot at 70 feet and that 100 grain partition blew up,probably because the bullet was fast and the insides were all soup,i was in a very thick-wet-snowy swamp so shots were very close,it was the only rifle I had up in the north country. >> if you have ever hunted much you would have learned a good bullet in the guts would just go right thru and just make a small hole entrance and exit.

Not to sidetrack this from 257 Weatherby talk but I think it adds a bit.

This was shot outta my Mashburn at 3500 and change











Bullets don’t have to grenade at high speed nor be super high SD if they are built to take the speed. Plus when they stay wide like that the whole way they penetrate plenty far since they retain most of their starting weight.

Good points.

But "built to take the speed" speaks to the bullet. Low S.D. monos at hypervelocity speaks to the terminal performance on deer. Bullet probably does fine, it's the quick kill, DRT that can become the issue.

Some complain about showing too much gore on the internet, but this photo shows the huge blast effect of the low S.D. 80 gr. TTSX at 3,600 fps out of a .240 Wby. Deer ran 100 yds and had to be found at night with flashlights.

Double hands full of shock tissue and blood clots, all on the outside of the chest wall. Uneventful pass thru the chest cavity with min tissue disruption and a slow kill. I'm sure the bullet did well, didn't blow up. But the terminal effect was not good, IMO.

I now shoot 100 gr. NPT's in that gun with much better terminal ballistics and DRT's.

Speaking of "soup" in the chest, a 90 gr. Scenar at max .240 speed made for a really nasty clean up at the skinning shed. Lungs were soup, diaphragm was shattered, there were grains of corn from the stomach in the soup. Great bullet, super accurate, but a poor choice for WT at that speed. It doesn't take me long to learn what to use, what not to use.

DF

Entrance wound, 80 gr TTSX @ 3,600 fps, 125 yds.


Exit wound, same bullet. Obviously lost some of that initial pizazz.

those pictures are exactly what my 257 Weatherby mag does with partitions but not as nasty with the swift a-frame bullets,one thing good about deer shot with speed those deer sure don`t go far. My good friend ask me which direction that deer went ? I said down.