« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2012, 09:47:55 AM »
You will do great with that round to 150 yards. Put it in the boiler room and get out your gut hook! I always try to wait for a quartering toward heavy bone shoulder shot. Never had a deer or hog take a step. I executed this shot with everything from a 357 mag pistol, 243 with 85 grain game kings, on up to 350 rem mag. When you hit a hard bone the bullet explodes sometimes and bone frag becomes a bunch of internal bullet.
I consider this shot placement recommendation, extremely bad advice. By all means AVOID a quartering on animal... the vitals are BEHIND all that bone... should your bullet frag, there is a chance that you won't even contact the heart/lungs. I guided a hunter one time who took a quartering-on shot on a 200 pound black bear with a 7mm Mag... that was a MESS... tracked the bear for 400 yards and finished it with my bow... the results that were revealed on skinning and butchering showed that the bullet fragged all AROUND the vitals... the only thing we save on the bear was the shoulder mount and three roasts off the offside hind quarter... please wait for a high percentage broadside or quartering AWAY shot... sure you can make the quartering on shot work (it'll be messy), but it is a lower percentage shot, so why not wait.
P.S - the 240 XTP's are what I like... but I am working on a Trail Boss subsonic load with cast 240's and 300 XTP's. The 180's will be fine but please take the high percentage broadside lung shot.
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