If you want blood on the ground, every time you plug a deer, go bigger and tougher with your bullet choice, heavier, larger diameter, and tougher construction. Now I’m not advocating running .300 flinch mags and monolithic 180’s for deer, but for some folks that’s what it takes.
Think about it. With our farm deer especially, they are so fat, that if you fail to get a sizeable exit wound, the holes are almost self sealing and the blood leakage is scarce.
I’d be looking hard at nothing bigger than a 120gr. monolithic in a 6.5 skidmoore, if your hoping to splash blood on the ground from deer.
The other side of this equation is to run something like a 156gr. to 160gr. conventional cup and core bullet in this cartridge.
Frangible and devastate, the innerd’s kind of bullets are all the rage, until the fragmentation fails to make contact with the CNS or part of the driveline. Then you’ve got a bowl of soup with a self sealing lid.
I like exit wounds myself.
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