Thread: Match bullets for hunting deer

Originally Posted by No.3

If you hit somewhere absolutely vital and penetrate deep enough you'll drop deer with .22LR. If you do it with a match bullet it will still do it too.

Where it gets flaky is if you hit something on the way to the deer that you didnt see that starts the bullet upsetting or expanding - match bullets can do weird and unexpected things. It's a bit like FMJ, can hit bone and depart at 90deg to where it hit and take out the back steaks and scotch fillets on the way through the arsehole - ask me how I know this haha (seen it first hand, took out one of the shoulders, the backsteaks and scotch fillets and destroyed the spine, and stuffed the arsehole and the top of both rumps on the way out and a bloody nice condition yearling reduced to dog tucker basically).

It's probably better to use a hunting bullet, if you have one weird event you start second guessing yourself and that's bad...

ELDMs work consistently.

Many "hunting" bullets work poorly. Any non-lead hunting bullet, more or less, works much worse than an ELDM. Just because it says "hunting" on the box doesn't mean it works well. Even the ones that work relatively well, like Makers and Etips - have a smaller functional impact V window, and don't work as well inside it CF an ELDM

Hitting intermediate barriers between you and the target animal produces inconsistent results with any bullet.