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Old 04-06-2020, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Dubious View Post
This setup did not preform well on a cow moose the Brother in law shot 2 years ago. The 120 ballistic tips didn’t NOT hold together requiring 4 shots to put the moose down. Once the western shooting gallery was done we conducted the battle damage assessment and found jackets seperated from cores and core fragments we were quite disappointed in the performance. We switched to 140 gr Berger vldh and haven’t had any issues since. I would not recommend the nosler ballistic tips on anything other than CXP2 class game.
It performed exactly how it was supposed to. Ballistic tips and hornady sst are excellent deer bullets when you want rapid violent expansion. Especially at higher fps. Be the last bullet I would ever shoot at a moose or elk.
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