Woodbridge
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I read through the entire thread on shot placement last night which inspired me to post something that I've been wondering about. I agreed with a couple of the posts about, while not wanting to waste meat, the importance of putting a deer down on a small parcel outweighs the loss of meat from the effectiveness of a shoulder shot.
I have been successfully hunting deer with traditional 150gr cup and core loads in a 30-06 for quite a while. I hunt in the timber and have made some closer quartering shots recently where the lighter bullets have fragmented quite a lot. Although those deer still expired pretty quickly, I fear some of the stories that I've heard about bullet breakup and lack of penetration.
I am considering the switch to 180gr loads and hoping that some of you can share some actual experience about the effectiveness of 180gr cup and core loads on whitetail from 20 - 100 yards.
I have been successfully hunting deer with traditional 150gr cup and core loads in a 30-06 for quite a while. I hunt in the timber and have made some closer quartering shots recently where the lighter bullets have fragmented quite a lot. Although those deer still expired pretty quickly, I fear some of the stories that I've heard about bullet breakup and lack of penetration.
I am considering the switch to 180gr loads and hoping that some of you can share some actual experience about the effectiveness of 180gr cup and core loads on whitetail from 20 - 100 yards.