Fusion ammo has been good to me. I use the 140 grn in the 7mm-08 and have had 2 shots and 2 bang flops with it. One was a 225lb dressed 150 class buck at 250 yards straight on chest shot, the other was a 120 lb dressed doe at 100 yards broad side shot. Both deer never took another step and were dead when they hit the ground not even doing so much as leg kick.
I wonder what the actual bullet is that they are using? Nosler?
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Dang! Where you located at bro, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio? Must be big deer country for sure. I took a buck on the Thursday after Thanksgiving that was a giant for my part of the country.
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,158144.0.htmlI'd like the chance to get one of the real monsters though, say a 190 class 250 pounder, ok, just dreaming a bit. But really, deer here in my part of Okla. run 90-120 average and both does I've taken this year each weighed in at 94 lbs. field dressed. I've taken three deer from the same spot in three times out, I'll take those results over the long trip - high cost - dream buck any day I guess. My spot is so close that I can leave my house and be sitting and ready to shoot in 15 minutes total.
Not sure who the manufacturer is for the Fusion bullet but it is definitely a great terminal performance projectile. I believe Federal even may be producing it, not sure, but it actually performs like a Ballistic Tip almost. The first doe this year was with the .308 Fusion. Hit her directly in front of the right shoulder and it exited right behind her left knee. She rolled, got up, and stumbled about 10 yards and laid down, end of story. The pictures of her would have looked something like these did, blood everywhere, awesome exit wound and bleed-out. The front half of her heart was gone, not mush, but gone! The buck you can read about, but it was a classic, may have had more terminal results with that bullet had his neck not been swelled up as big as a monster truck tire, and had he not been so heavy, who knows? I'm definitely a fan of the Fusion ammo now though. I look at it as a first choice for factory ammo now in all the calibers I'm shooting.
