hey i have been experimenting with the 125 grn in a 30-06 for a couple years now. everybody whines that the 125 is too small for deer. well i hunted deer for about 10 yrs with a .243 and 100 grain bullets. probably flattened about 20 or so of them and never had any reason to doubt its power. i first started out useing the 130 spire pt hornady. it is a short squatty bullet, very uninspireing to look at. it werked well as far as accuracy, killed one or two deer with it , both lung or heart shots. as far as damge to the deer, it looked about like any other bullet. probably a quarter size exit hole and massive blood loss both internally and externally. however as you can imagine the ballistic coefficent of short squatty bullets is pretty bad. in fact when pushed fast as it would go{prob around 3000 fps} it dropped much more at 300 yrds than my 6.5x55 with a 140 grn bullet going around 2600 fps. then i discovered the nosler 125 ballistic tip bullet. this bullet is much longer, more tapered, a boatail and has i assume a better bc. they improved the accuracy in my ruger no. 1 by enough to definitely make me take notice. they are pricey at about 13 bucks for 50. i killed one deer with them last fall at about 225 yds. classic lung shot, broadside, destroyed lungs and deer went about 25 yds and croaked. as off yet i havent shot it at long range to see what the drop is like but plan to do some tests this fall and to use it again as my hunting bullet. let us hear what you find out with your 125 loads!
