Originally posted by marshal:
How can you say they failed? they are a match bullet and are sold as match bullets, not hunting bullets.
Marshal
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Originally posted by IdahoCTD:
I've shot a fair number of the 210gr .30 VLD's. A friend and I each shot elk with them last year too. I gave some to a good buddy of mine to do expansion test with them and they failed miserably. They either blew up or didn't expand at all. On my elk it pretty much pencil-holed (never expanded). It killed the elk but it wasn't impressive. It stayed on it's feet for 20-30 seconds. The lungs were still filled with blood but the tissue damage was very minimal. On my friends elk the first shot was in the liver and the bullet never made it past the middle of the body. The second shot was just like mine. Through the lungs with very little damage.