I've seen a lot of game shot with 150 grain Barnes bullets from 7mms and .300 mags


From my experience, unless you hit a shoulder bone, it's straight in and out.


If I'm shooting a deer for meat, it's neck or head, and it really don't matter at that point.

If it's a trophy, I want the bullet to cause massive internal damage and in my experience a Barnes bullet in the 3000 fps range doesent cause it

Curious as to what results to expect on a deer or pig?

shoot deer at 100 yds with 308 and sp bullet nice exit good blood dead deer, now comes deer hunter with 300 mag same deer 100 yds and problems occur, no exit bullet comes apart dead deer but hunter want exit wound, buys bonded bullets shoots deer nice exit recovers deer, hes right back where we started with 308 and sp bullets. my advice use cartridge with sp bullets at ranges cartridges were designed for.

This discussion is interesting - good opinions and some valid points throughout .

I'm surprised the subject of specialty rounds hasn't been brought up.

Wouldn't this really be the optimal solution for those who want penetration and expansion , I'm specially talking about those projectiles that the front half separates from the base.

Seems like neck shooters who want to save meat and eradication teams that want to inflict mass trauma would all be served dependent on shot placement.

Oh yeah and if you want to practice find a cheap plinking projectile and tune your charge rate to match the pricey bullets point of impact - also if shooting a semi load the top two rounds with pricey stuff and plinking rounds for the low percentage running shots .

And this is the reason I shoot Nosler Partitions, while it's not the best of both worlds it does give me the ability to take either a heart lung or a shoulder shot with confidence.

That's true. But the TSX does more internal damage than meets the eye (see ballistic gel tests). Have shot one ram and one buck with them (buck was simply because using same rifle later in same year). Ram went 10 yards and collapsed and deer went maybe 40 yards with a great blood trail. That said, I do not prefer them for deer-sized game and won't use them again for deer unless the caliber is small. Even then, I would probably go with an AB or NP or something similar. Monometals are designed to achieve penetration - every time. So their real sweet spot is really for larger, tougher animals.

Can't go wrong with either AB or NP......