pros and cons of shooting light or heavy for caliber bullets

[Ardent]

Many, many things in life are preferable at the right fringe of the bell curve.

 

[dgradinaru]

I’ll be testing this out I guess this year, I shot deer with 150g .303 Brit last year. For spring bear I sighted in with 180g and will use it on deer this season to see if there’s any difference in meat damage, the 150g sp did the job well though. All went in and out the other side, on the buck there was a small piece of fragmented lead so I’m pretty sure there was expansion involved, I shot him at 40y and the doe at 100y. Meat damage on both were pretty much the same, the 180g group the same as the 150g out of my no.4. recoil was more with the heavier bullets but not much more.

I dont think you will notice much difference when it comes to 303 Velocities. 150gr ( 2700fts) Will be flatter shooting and 180 (2400fts) will penetrate better on heavy boned game.