My bad experience with Bergers

Reid,
The ones that came apart were between 300 and 600 yards out. They were fired out of big 30 cals and were probably starting out at around 3300 fps. The jackets are much softer than those of the Sierras, for instance, and may have been the root cause.
I'm not a fan of the "explosive" bullet for game. Others are and are welcome to their beliefs. Regards, Bill.
 
I have had bad experiences with deer running off after being hit and still running after multiple hits and it has nothing to do with the bullet. I've had deer refuse to go down with Nosler Partitions, Win SuperX, Hornady Interbonds. Deer just don't die sometimes, strong will to live. You'll have some deer that drop on a gut shot and others that you can last at the chest until there is a gaping, steaming hole and they keep on running.

You can't blame a bullet, it just part of whitetail hunting. At least you recovered the animal.
 
Leeper said:
Reid,
The ones that came apart were between 300 and 600 yards out. They were fired out of big 30 cals and were probably starting out at around 3300 fps. The jackets are much softer than those of the Sierras, for instance, and may have been the root cause.
I'm not a fan of the "explosive" bullet for game. Others are and are welcome to their beliefs. Regards, Bill.
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So you're telling us that the bullet was fine out of the muzzle at 3300 but once it started to slow down then it fragmented???? Wow if that happened to me I know I would be calling the manufacturer and getting some questions answered. One of the guys from Berger is on the Alberta Outdoorsmen site, his name is Eric, I think you should fill him in on your results. Any bullet that fragments in flight is not any good for anything, not even punching holes in paper!!!!
 
I do not think I would ever try these bergers on anything larger than a whitetail, and if i did use them it would be under very controled terms, and a controled shot and would not hit bone.
I watched that video beyond belief and i was not impressed at all when they shot wet news paper, there was no bullet left after 8 inches at 25 feet and even at 70 yards it sucked. The TSX went right through there box at every range.

I have had good luck with the TSX and The accubond bullet, if one does not shoot well seems the other will in any rifle and holds sub MOA cold bore in my rigs.

I have now as well taken many animals with the TSX and seen dramatic one shot kills and is my bullet of choice over the accubond.

The accubond performed flawless this year on a 350 lb black bear as it broke both shoulders and exited. Also makes a good whitetail round as it does not hold together as well as the tsx but still has bullet left in the end.

I have played with target bullets on whietail, my findings are they are unpredictable in there expansion, as they should be there were designed first for accuracy and second just to hold together until impact, as i seen first hand on 2 whitetail i shot with a 30 cal 178 A-Max and a 30 cal 175 SMK and this was at the most predictable 308 velocity of 2650!
 
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