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Does anyone have any experience with this bullet on medium game ( deer / sheep ) & large game ( elk / moose ). Caliber being used 300wby improved (head spaces on the shoulder). I would be pushing this bullet around 3000fps. Thanks, FarmBoy1956

I would like to say welcome to the site. Sorry I have never used the bullet in question.

Paul, thanks for the welcome. Brad

I loaded up the 200gr version for my father to use while deer hunting. Like most bullets, they work fine if used within their design parameters. I didn't chronograph them, but if the reloading manual is to be trusted they were going around 2650 ft/sec. The deer didn't have a lot of blood shot meat so my dad was happy with the results.

When you say there was not a lot of blood shot meat; Do you know if the bullet passed thru with little tissue damage or did it mushroom and give a good exit wound? Thanks, Brad

Exit wound was about slightly smaller than a quarter, indicating that the bullet had a good mushroom. Placement was just behind the front shoulder going in and exited at what I would expect to be the deer's bicep. We lost about half of bicep to tissue damage, but nothing else. Again, this is at moderate velocity designed to limit damage to meat. I hunt in an area that is a patchwork of small ponds/marshes where wounded deer take very predictable paths. Even if they run 200yds it's not too hard to track them in the snow. My personal preference is 150gr Sirocco's pushed to 2500 ft/sec out of my 7mm-08. They basically enter expand and then exit as a dime size hole, but I have never had a problem recovering deer. I would suspect that pushing the Hornady bullet to 3,000 ft/sec would have more devastating results.

Thanks for the detail description. It helps with the process of considering as to try this bullet, which I am going to.