I just got back from a deer hunting trip to east NC. I took two deer with my T/C Contender and new MGM made SS 14" barrel in 30-30AI. I was using the 125 Nosler Ballistic Tip pushed to 2670 fps average by 33 grs IMR 4198 in a WW case fired by a Wolf LR primer. Opening day, last Sat, I took a doe at 98 yards broad side. Bullet struck in the center of her front shoulder and exited at the back edge of the offside shoulder with a golf ball size hole. Doe dropped in her tracks. Wednesday afternoon I took a nice 7 point buck at 55 yards. I was hunting on an old logging road and he came out of the woods on one side and kept walking across the road and had his head into the woods on the other side before I could squeeze the shot off. The bullet struck just a little bit lower on the front shoulder than I like. He jumped about 3 feet up in the air and jerked his front legs up close to his body and kicked out his back legs and hit the ground running. He only went 30 yards and piled up. The bullet blew his heart to pieces and exited the offside where the leg bone meets the shoulder place and broke the leg with a golf ball size exit. I have used the 125 ballistic tip in a 308 and 30X47 HBR rifle to take deer also and it is a real deer killer.
