Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Hornady 308 110 grain v-max.........

I would and do prefer to use Baliistic TIps for deer. DOnt know why you'd need naythign more explosive but hey i'm sure they work

they will work fine if you drive em down the right twisted barrel,1:10 twisted barrels are the most popular in 308 cal rifles which are best suited to the 165-168 grain class of bullets,for that little stumpy 30 cal 110 grain bullet to stabalize properly and group correctly you would probably need a barrel with a twist rate of 1:14 or 1:16,they probably dont group worth a HOOT in a 1:10 twisted barrel,243 winchester hundred grain bullets shoot like a house fire in a 1:10 twited barrel,I have no doubt that the 110 gr. V max 308 bullet would kill deer easily if n you could get it to fly straight.........

It is much harder to "overtwist" a bullet then under twist one. The 110gr V-MAX stabilizes fine in a 1:10. For that matter they work fine in 1:8's.......

I've seen about 15 deer killed with the 110 in a 270 (not all by me, several by a buddy) but do most of my shooting with a ballistic tip now. I never had a deer go more than ~20 yards and about 50% had exits. His experience was the same. I'm not advocating using them, just stating what we found out but YMMV as neither of us are rocket scientists, just plain old engineers.

One in 10 twist is fine for the 110 Vmax in my Savage.

BMT

I give up...

Good move!

How much meat do you loose to it though? I have put down a couple of deer with it (hit by cars) and they were DRT but I did not see exits and did not open them up to look at results. In coyotes they left huge exit holes.

I dont think anyone disagrees that an explosive varmint slug in the lungs will drop a deer with no problems what so every but I would not consider selecting it with deer as the primary application.