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HUNTING DEER IS SERIOUS BUSINESS TO MILLIONS OF SPORTSMEN. WINCHESTER HAS BEEN RIGHT THERE ALL ALONG, MAKING SURE WHEN THE MOMENT COMES TO PULL THE TRIGGER, THERE WILL BE NO QUESTION IF THE BULLET WILL DO ITS JOB.
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very year thousands of hunters around North America scratch their heads over the big selection of deer ammunition on dealers’ shelves. Thousands more don’t even think about it. They continue using whatever’s cheapest, what they’ve always used or what some guy on TV said to use. Does it matter? You bet it matters. Ask any hunter who’s ever hit and lost a deer. Was it a bad shot or bad bullet? Often it is the wrong bullet. That’s why bullet makers attempt to build the perfect deer hunting bullet. There is no such thing, of course, but some come pretty darn close. A stumbling block is variable impact velocity. Terminal bullet performance changes with distance. A 150-grain bullet from a .300 Win. Mag. can move about as fast at 300 yards than the same bullet from a .308 Win. at 100
yards or a .30-30 at 10 yards. But at 400 yards that .300 Win. Mag. is going as slow as the .308 Win. at 200 yards. Which impact velocity do you target? Bullet makers have created bullets that handle most common impact speeds. You can find bullets with variable jacket tapers and thicknesses; nose notching; varied lead hardness; flat bases and boattail bases; sharp nose profiles and gently rounded profiles; and exposed lead tips, polymer tips and much more. Why choose one over another? Which bullet is best for your style of hunting? It can be a tricky decision, particularly when considering the optimal shots needed to rapidly take large game such as deer. In the case of lung shots (the preferred side view shot), lung tissue doesn’t offer much resistance to projectiles. For these shots, rapid expansion
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