Bullets for shooting meat deer?

[smith88]

I plan on shooting some deer for meat this month and I was wondering what you guys think would do the least damage to meat from a 7mm RM? I would be shooting behind the front shoulder. I have 175gr Partions, 150gr Ballistic tips, 120 soft point and 100gr HP. I would buy new bullets to reload if need be.

[flyguyd]

Shoot them in the head , then you can use any bullet you want and not waste any meat

[dgl1948]

Shoot them in the head , then you can use any bullet you want and not waste any meat

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[elkhunter11]

Shoot them in the head , then you can use any bullet you want and not waste any meat

And if your aim is just slightly off,you could shoot off the jaw and have the deer suffer a long agonizing death.

[dgl1948]

And if your aim is just slightly off,you could shoot off the jaw and have the deer suffer a long agonizing death

And if you try for the heart lung your shot could be off a little and you may have an animal that is gut shot or wind up with a broken leg and suffer a long and agonizing death.

[elkhunter11]

And if you try for the heart lung your shot could be off a little and you may have an animal that is gut shot or wind up with a broken leg and suffer a long and agonizing death.

The heart lung area is several times the vital area of the brain,so the odds of a proper hit are much,much higher.If you miss the center of the brain by three inches,the result will likely be a miss or a wounded animal.If you miss the center of the heart lung are by three inches,you still have a clean kill.

[HunterDave]

Originally Posted by smith88

I have 175gr Partions, 150gr Ballistic tips, 120 soft point and 100gr HP. I would buy new bullets to reload if need be.

No need to reload. Given the options I'd go with the 150gr BT and the second choice is the 175gr Partitions. Either one will work great for deer.

[smith88]

Originally Posted by HunterDave

No need to reload. Given the options I'd go with the 150gr BT and the second choice is the 175gr Partitions. Either one will work great for deer.

Thanks HunterDave. I reloaded those. I didn't need to be told where to shoot. I just wanted some opinions on bullets.

[shooter]

Unleaded bullets!!

[Cal]

the175 partitions are IMO too much bullet for deer but they would probably do the least damage. Myself I use 150 grain corelocs for most of my hunting and they seem to be a good ballance between penetration and expansion and keeping meat in good shape. Of the bullets you have loaded I would use the 150 bt's but in my experience they are bad for blowing up and wrecking meat.

[HunterRed]

If you shoot them in the engine you should only wreck ribs and hamburger anyway. Shoot the bullets your gun likes best or that you have zeroed now so the accuracy is on par

[Mountain Guy]

of the ones you mentioned i would go iwth the 175 pt's.The others would have a likelihood of disintigrating if they hit bone.
A soild copper or bonded bullet won't do that as readily.
A blown up bullet causes lots of capillary damage and lots of blood shot meat

Do you need advice as to where to shoot the animal??

[CaberTosser]

The ballistic tip would result in more bloodshot and ruined meat than would a partition or a copper or gilding metal solid like a TSX, GMX or the like.

[Canuck Bob]

I find for whitetails deer the key is often to ease up on the throttle so bullets don't do the hydrshock thing with explosive expansion. Punch a hole and not evaporate a shoulder.