.260 Bullet Penetration on Whitetail

[cooker900]

personaly i cant wait to try the 260 this year on game. currently have loads worked with 120 nosler ballistic tips and getting ready to work soem uo with the 130 HPBT from sierra.

[JASmith]

The Hornady HITS Calculator (http://www.hornady.com/hits/calculator) suggests that the .260 Rem Core-Lokt Ultrabonded bullet will behave more like the the 168 gr .308 Ballistic Silvertip than the 150 grain.

Hence, the .260 should work as well or better than the .308, particularly when you take into account the fact the the .260 is a tad flatter shooting to boot.

In fact, .260 Rem bullets in the 120-130 grain range would have similar HITS scores to the 150 gr .308 Win Ballistic Silvertip and be even flatter shooting.

[sniper15545]

I've been shooting Pa whitetails for years with the 120 ballistic tips in my 260 and never had an issue with putting them down or penetration. You can have flukes such as yours with any caliber or any bullet. I shot a bull elk several years ago with a 340 weatherby and 250 grains nosler partition weatherby ammo three times at a 100 yards , two in the front shoulder and once thru the neck, He ran 700 yards like I never hit him. Crazy things just happen, I wouldn't judge a bullet over one event such as yours.

[dieselflipper]

i gave up on ballistic tips years ago in my .280. i switched to hornady sst and have had nothing but 1 shot bambi and wilbur kills ever since. the sst is like the interbond, only half the cost. the one downside...an ugly cannelure thats way to high up on the ogive. if you can ignore the cannelure, they are the best $28/100 bullet [mine shoot MOA or better] on the market.

[cgeorgemo]

I've had a ballistic tip .308 bullet pass completely through a whitetails's fore leg bone then pass through two ribs (going in and coming out) and it apparently never expanded despite passing through 3 bones.
Both exit holes were the same size as both entrance holes.

I've also shot a doe with a .257 Corelockt at 20 yards and she took off like a scalded dog.
When I field dressed her I realized that she ran over 100 yards with damage that should have been impossible.
The shot took out her left front shoulder, her heart, her lungs, and her liver. Her insides were jelly.

From these experiences I've come to the following conclusions about hunting whitetail.
#1 Adrenaline trumps everything but crippling spinal damage.
#2 Bullets do not always perform as designed.

[bama1]

260+130 Berger= 1 dead deer. This has worked for me drt out to 625 yds.