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Originally Posted by MILES58
I don't do a lot of shooting beyond that, and often as not pass at that distance, but...Barnes 130 TSX or TTSX bullets driven at laser beam speeds make hitting at that distance easier. They always go through and bone doesn't phase them. At short range they do not wreck a lot of meat, even at that kind of speed.

Miles knows from whence he speaks here. The 130 gr. TTSX is very bad juju on whitetails. I haven't shot at one with that load yet that I couldn't reach out and freezer train, and this from a 300 Savage.


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Can't imagine needing a 150gr or heavier bullet for deer. Forever I have been taking large mature muley buck's with a 6.5 & 120gr Sierra's. Have shot muley's with every thing from a 243 up to a 338 mag. A 270 with a 110 gr bullet is an absolute deer killer out to 500yd. Have my own range & this works. With a 30-06 & the Sierra 125 gr , an absolute proven killer. 350 yds with the 30-06 & the Sierra 125 gr a chip shot with DRT results. If for what ever reason you feel you need a heavier bullet & that gives you confidence , go for it. The lighter bullets will give the quicker kills .

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Originally Posted by wilkeshunter
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165 gr GameKing


This is what I’d use, along with some IMR-4350.



Solid choice, use them in 308 loads, be better in a 30-06

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Would use the 168 Ballistic Silvertip. The black coating makes cleaning the barrel MUCH easier. Very little to no copper fouling.

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I loaded up some 125 NBT for a friends 30-06, way back in '89. He was moving to Yakima WA and wanted a 'coyote load" he said. I told him it would work on anything they had around there! He shot a few called in coyotes and the following year he shot a Blacktail around 300yds ( he wasn't sure exactly) but he said it dropped. This was back when they were "softer", but I figured that the lighter weights had less soft lead in the nose and more jacket. They behaved well. I used a 308 and a 165 NBT on a big axis around 240yds and he rolled over too. However, in mid 90s I tried the 180 NBT from my first 300WM and what a mess it made, ha. I went back to Barnes in it.

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I think the 165 gr bullets and the ‘06 are a match made in heaven. Been using ballistic tips for practice and the accu bond for hunting . Both shoot to the same POI.


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