How exciting!!

I've shot quite a few animals with Partitions, and the bullet has always performed well..

The wound and the exit hole are 2 different things...As many others have said, the internal damage is great- I've seen bear/deer vitals pretty much liquified by a partiton, while the exit hole isn't very big, even after hitting the offside shoulder..

As to shoulder shots, well..I use them. I'd much rather waste a pound or two of shoulder meat and drop an animal quickly, than have to look for the whole animal. Of course different terrain and different areas offer different ideas...

I know I would prefer not to have to chase a moose into a swamp.

I have personally seen Nosler BT's blow up twice when hitting deer shoulder bones at closer ranges. I jsut did a few penetration tests with the Accubond, and I suggest that anyone that wants a fast opening, good penetrating, accurate bullet check them out.

At 30 yards into wet newspaper, 7mm 140gr Accubonds penetrated 18", with good expansion, and they held together nicely..At loger ranges,(with lower velocity) they probably would have penetrated even more...160gr X bullets penetrated much farther, as expected, and had picture perfect expansion.

Well count me as one of those meat-spoiling-shoulder-BUSTING- killing nimrods. I perhaps have less experience hunting than most of you here, but I've been around. Around enough to have killed a record book bear, african plains game animals including some weighing close to a ton and upwards of 80 deer. In that limited ezperience level, I learned FAST that shoulder shots both anchor and kill game faster than anything except maybe brain shots, and there are only a couple of animals out there where brain shots are used. Moreover, Professional Hunters are adamant about placing your first shot on the shoulder.

Accordingly, unless I am hunting deer sized animals, I load premium bullets and it that regard, Nosler Partitions set the standard over 50 years ago. I also use Swifts, but recognize there are others. And one more thing, It's called killing not harvesting.Lest we forget they are animals and not people. I "respect" my elders, seniors and "betters". Oh yeah, I've busted a few of those two, MK-20 ROCKEYEs are a great tool in that respect jorge