Doc I have been in on te killing of hundreds of deer looks to me like he cut the skin and didn't make a center hit. If the hit would have been soild and the bullet blew up her head would have been mostly off.

Just this year I saw a doe about the same size shot with a 25-06 with 87 gr serria at 3420fps. The entry wound was 5 inchs across the deer droped in it tracks the shot was dead broad side. The same bullet to the neck soild would have torn the head almost off. Thats bullet blow up for you.

No what you have is a hit that nearly miss that stunned the deer not bullet failure.

"Reloader, Oh, I've killed a couple of deer. And seen a couple more that others have killed. Plus a few varmints. But I've never seen a entrance wound like you describe. Then again, I've never had what I could honestly say was a bullet failure even tho I've shot a couple of tons of Core Lokts. The failures I've had, to be painfully truthful, were caused by failures of the trigger nut."


I cant believe you've never seen large entrance wounds if you say you've shot varmints. Did you use a fast cart. loaded w/ varmint bullets?

I've seen quite a few large entrance wounds on the Whitetails and Hogs I've shot while using soft bullets (such as Rem. CLs) at fast velocities. I've had some quite impressive entrance wounds on whitetails from the .284 150 grain CLs at a 3150fps MV. Most of those occasions were when shoulder blades or several ribs were impacted on entry and most of the time there were no exits.

Keep shootin' those CLs, Bump up the velocity, You'll see what I'm talking about. That was the main reason I quit using CLs in anything but, 30-30 win.

Good Luck!

Reloader