Thread: balistic tip vs soft point on deer 7mm-08

Not sure what all the need for a "blood trail" is, in a bush rifle for shots under 200yds, a heavy for calibre frangible bullet in the chest, staight down, no need for ninja level tracking. I like Berger VLD's at any range, and they continually "fail" by not always exiting or leaving a beautifull photo worthy mushroom on the offside, I know they "fail" because I see the destuction to the vitals when I clean up the dead animal I didn't have to track.

To the OP, any of the mid to heavy for calibre factory stuff will work inside 200yds, just don't look to shoot on the shoulder joint at close range with SST or ballistic tips, if your factory ammo shoots 2'' groups at 100 you will be fine putting in the chest of any deer out to 300 yds and almost all factory ammo will shoot better than that.