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Never shot any animals with the golds. I remember shooting a target at 450 yards using a stump as a backstop. Boy, I could hear the “whack” with those golds vs a ballistic tip! Even with my hearing protection on it sounded like someone hit a barn with a baseball bat. I’d hate to be on the...

I sure wish they would bring back the 225 grain ballistic tip in .358…along with a 180 and 200 grain version! They took them off the the market with the .375 260 grain ballistic tip. That .375 version was one mean round on whitetail in my 375 RUM! Still have one loose 260 grainer left. I’ve...

I’ve loaded 90 grain swift Scirrocco’s for buddy the last couple decades. They always seem to exit deer and 60 yard tracks are normal. The ballistic tip dumps all its energy and also dumps the deer off its feet vs a premium bullet that is designed to penetrate deeper and doesn’t expand as wide.

Do you find the 95 grain BT penetrates deep and exits more often than the 90 grain BT?

Imo water tests are WAY too hard of a medium for expansion testing. It’s fun though to catch bullets. I use to use water expansion tests for different alloys with my own cast bullets. The best mushroom I had was with super hard 15.4 bh alloy. I casted it in a Lyman devastator. I tried it at...

For me, it’s pretty common for the ballistic tips to separate from their lead cores. I shot a couple of pronghorn back around 2000. Loaded up some 125 grain ballistic tips out of my 300 RUM at almost 4000 ft./s. Shot one a couple hundred yards that I literally could see daylight through where I...

You can see the bullet broke through several ribs on the way in. I was in an elevated stand when I took the shot as the deer was walking away from me. It took out quite a few ribs in its path before resting on the offside shoulder. I’m sure a broadside shot encountering only one rib on the way...

I decide to try a 90 grain ballistic tip on a deer. Shot quite a bobcat and many coyote with them and then switched to 70 grain versions. I had some doe tags to try out some of the old 90 grainers I had loaded up and stored away for decades. I used a Remington 600 with a 18.5" barrel. The load...

I’ve been a member here for probably 20 years and got locked out so I logged back in under a different email address and user name.

I shot a deer with one at about 18 yards a few seasons ago. It hit the ground and never moved. I recovered the bullet and have pictures of it. I’ll have to post it later. Blew through the shoulder blade on the opposite side and rested just under the hide. The lead separated from the core and was...