I loaded up some 95 grain VLDs for my Sako 243, which it isn't supposed to have a fast enough twist but they group a consistent 3/4" at 100 so I just went with it. I haven't shot anything with a Berger yet except the 52 grain Varmint out of a 22-250, which are devastating to say the least. Anyway, I had them touching the rifling and 34.0 grains of Varget pushing them. I shot this buck at about 200-225 and hit him dead center in the heart. There was a pencil hole in and a quarter hole out. He ran 100 yards but the blood trail looked like someone sprayed it with a super soaker water gun. It was 2 feet high and all over every bush and cactus. A lot of you will like the performance of the bullet but I prefer a behind the shoulder shot and a bullet that grenades upon entry. I prefer an SST or BT style bullet but I wanted to give these a try. Yes I know the deer is dead, but I would rather have no exit wound and the heart and both lungs turned to soup. I don't need a blood trail if that happens; they are usually anchored. And the buck isn't very good but that's one of two that I had a green light on.

So for me the jury is still out on the VLDs. They shoot excellent and the deer is as dead as all other dead deer but I don't like tracking them. I just wonder what the result would have been with a less than perfect shot. I still have a couple of doe to shoot before I decide if that is my permanent load. I say permanent because once I order my elevation dial I don't want to change.

They work really well on coyotes when you shoot them in the mouth though.

Well can't get the exit hole or entrance hole pics to upload.

coyote looks jacked up! lol where was the impact? nvm I saw where it was in the mouth..lol

Yeah I shot him right in the mouth. He was much much more dead than most I've killed.