I'll start by saying I didn't shoot this one and yes it's Ultra dead. I borrowed this photo from another forum. I used to be of the school of thought that there was no such thing as too dead or too much gun till I saw it for myself. Yes it's graphic but necessary to show the power of such cartridges. Deer was shot with a 180gr core loct from a .300RUM. I promise that the shock was so great that there is very little of this deer worth eating. I got the rear hams and a small portion of the backstraps from the one I shot with a 180 sirocco bonded at 250 yards several years ago. After having the same results several years ago I parked my 116 FLSS in .300 ultra dead. I know many people read numbers etc on the internet and think "the .308 is almost the same as the -06 there's only a couple of hundred FPS difference. Or the .300 Win mag is about the same as the .300RUM there is only a couple of hundred FPS difference. Truth when you double the velocity you multiply impact by a factor of 9. That's right 9. That couple of hundred FPS can literally make a cartridge hit with easily double or triple the energy of the next couple of calibers down. If you didn't know what these modern magnums do to game I hope you learned something. If you already did know it's just gore.
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