Quote Originally Posted by BT View Post
I would have never thought of a V-Max as a deer bullet but sure have heard of positive results the last couple years.
At lower velocities, they often perform more like a big-game bullet. My son uses the 120 grain V-Max in a 14" 7mm TCU, and it expands and retains ample weight quite well out to 200 yards or so given a starting velocity of approximately 2350 fps. The 120 is one that has been tweaked by Hornady. Early on, it was actually brittle and would break up -- even at lower speeds of the TCU or Waters. When the SSP bullets were being discontinued, one Hornady tech tried to tell me that the V-Max and the tipped SSP were one and the same. I even posted pictures of both sectioned and recovered bullets on SP. They were definitely not one and the same. But within the next year or two, those 120 grain V-Max bullets no longer were as brittle and did not break apart on impact as did the early versions. That bodes well for users of the 7mm TCU, Waters, BR, etc.