« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2010, 06:51:59 PM »
Well, I just wrote a small book to answer this and the storm bumped me off line I guess. Anyway, I have taken 20-25 deer with the load I listed and have never recovered a bullet or lost an animal. I have not run them over a chrony, but plan on doing so sometime. I would guess that av-doctor is close in his estimate of velocity and at that speed it works well, lots of damage and pass thru's. It IS to soft at 444 Marlin speeds. The only time it didn't drop the animal with in a few yards or right there was not the fault of the bullet, but a broken butt-stock, sending the bullet low-left. I did recover the deer, but not till the next morning and several hundred yards of tracking. I was sick over it, wasn't gonna give up. I will continue to use it on deer and it has been accurate in everything I shot it in, pistol or rifle. DP

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