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    Today I managed to retrieve a projectile from my 308 using the Winchester Subsonic rounds. First I fired a round with the grain and the bullet penetrated the pine ring of about 12 inches then disappeared into a tree, bugger $4.50 gone and no result. Next I shot across the grain and it pulled up in about 6 inches (dry pine) The pictures shows little expansion Name:  A06AFE1C-7682-4D14-9622-A969939042C5.jpeg
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    Not sure how these will work on animals but hopefully they will expand enough to kill cleanly.
    Micky Duck and RUMPY like this.

 

 

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