Long range hunting bullet

[hawk-i]

I'm following another thread ( long range hunting shots ) and am after effective bullet reports on shots past 400 yards (good or bad ) . I've always used nosler partitions but they don't have the B.C. To go very long . I've been target shooting with Berger vld hunting and getting good accuracy but last fall I shot a moose in the hump at 100 yards , watched it drop on the spot and get up in 5 seconds and start walking away. Gave it another in the neck and parked it . Found the first bullet made it to the spine but had fragmented so bad it didn't penetrate far enough. I'm sure the moose would have kept going without the follow up shot . I shoot moose for meat and with the nosler a hump shot has never failed . So I'm thinking the vld is only good for blowing up in the boiler room .

Shoot for the lungs and you'll most likely have way better results.

 

[RojamB21]

Later

 

[Keithjohn]

Shoot for the lungs and you'll most likely have way better results.

My results are fine , I wait for the shot I want and have never failed . The thread is about bullet performance at long range which I haven't had personal experience with. If your saying vld bullets are only for lung shots that is what I concluded and shared in my first post stating the vld was lacking at short range in the hump that it took two shots .