Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting .300 Win Mag w/ 150g Win Bonded Rapid Expansion vs Doe at 75 yards

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Bullet construction is the key, not just weight.

A soft bullet can “nuke” in the lungs at high impact speed and kill well without leaving a blood trail, making tracking tougher than it has to be on the deer with the tenacity to run. That is often the thing with soft bullets at high-speed, you either get a spectacular DRT, or a tracking job with no exit wound. A tougher bullet might mean less DRT events, but at least generally gives an exit on the runners. I get what the OP is saying. You sometimes don’t know until you try it.

Soft 150gr in 300WM equals the result you had. Move up to a more stout 165gr at least or a 150 mono.

When I used a 300 Win I always used the 180 NBT. Results were spectacular with drt kills and they exited.

I double-lunged a blacktail doe with a 150-grain Remington CoreLokt at about 30 yards once. No blood trail at all, but I did find a piece of lung tissue about the size of my thumbnail. I just started working on concentric circles from that piece of tissue and found the deer, looking exactly like yours, about 40 yards away. I think the hit was too high for it to leak blood.

Change bullets if you like but don't be too surprised if the exact same thing happens again.


Okie John