300 Whisper Subsonic Deer Load?

[HUNTER2]

Granted - "IF" they tumble you get a massive hole. But they don't always do that! My experience is they do tumble if a bone is hit! Otherwise, you had better be able to see them (deer) for a long ways. Besides, if we weren't always trying to experiment and make things better, we would have stayed with the old front stuffers......

[Rikky Lee]

Such is the nature of all hunting though. What I know and have seen is that a heavy FMJ or match projectile through the heart/lung area will kill efficiently without disturbing other game in the vicinity too much and in much the same way as an arrow does. I had one hit where the target actually went back to eating grass before falling over stone cold dead. This was using the 200 grain Lapua subsonic projectile.

I've have also used the 180 grain BT style bullets to get some expansion and kinetic energy dump.

All I know is that I would not like to be hit but a 240 grainer at any velocity!

[m21black]

Forget about expansion... I shoot deer with the 240 grain SMK traveling 1050 FPS (+/-) kills em dead... I use the 7 1/2 Rem BR primers with 9.2 grains of h 110. They usally walk a few feet and check out... the bullet tends to yawl over pretty consistantly with heart lung shots...