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DEER
DOMINANT FOR DEER
The bullet’s atop these loads are nigh perfect, too. Called Extreme Point, these projectiles combine the best hard-hitting, rapid mushrooming of the old flat-nose bullets with the ballistically efficient, sleek profile of modern, poly- mer-tip low-drag bullets like the Ballistic Silvertip. Back in great grandpa’s day, flat-nosed slugs were famous for smacking deer hard. Veterans felt such bullets hit harder and dropped deer quicker than any sharply tipped bullet. They could afford to ignore ballistically efficient, sharply pointed bullets because they were mostly shooting deer inside 150 yards. At that range you gain little advantage from a high B.C. bullet.
These days long-range shooting is much more common. And even where long shots are rare, it’s nice to know you have a bullet with the ability to handle it. Deer Season XP bullets fall between the PP and BST bullets in B.C. ratings. The 150-grain .308 XP registers a B.C. of .392, the PP .294 and the BST .435. What sets the XP apart is its extra large polymer tip. Sharply pointed, slightly elastic and tough, it resists tip deformation during recoil in the magazine to maintain its high B.C. But because the plastic body extends farther down the nose of the bullet than does the BST, its base rests on a much wider bed of lead core. According to Win- chester engineers, this accelerates expansion on impact, matching or exceeding that of Power-Point ammunition. Regardless of what style of hunting tends to dominate your season, choose your ammo accordingly and get ready. With Winchester deer loads, deer season is going to begin with a bang.
Deer Season XP
Conventional Polymer Tip
Conventional Soft Point
Super X Power-Point ® This classic design has been around longer than many of us, earning its stripes as one of the country’s great deer bullets. Winchester’s most-economical deer offering, these loads feature classic cup-and-core bullets with an exposed lead tip and flat base. They are built by filling a cup of gilding metal with lead, leaving a small tip of lead exposed and squeezing to the final bullet shape. Jacket material at the nose is notched slightly to assist rapid expansion on impact. Because Power-Point lead cores are fairly soft and their gilding metal jackets quite malleable, these bullets obdurate easily. This means they swell, shrink and conform to a
Deer Season XP VS. Conventional Round Nose
Velocity | Drop from Line-of-Sight | Remaining Energy | Wind Drift
100 YDS
300 YDS
400 YDS
Rifle Zeroed at 200 yds
2,676 | +1.7“ | 2385 | 1.2”
2,238 | -7.5” | 1668 | 8”
2,036 | -22” | 1381 | 14”
DEER SEASON XP B.C.* .392
variety of slightly different bore diameters (we’re talking .0001 of an inch), which aids accuracy.
Lead-tipped cup-and-core bullet
10 mph Crosswind
Notched jacket for rapid expansion
2,419 | +2.3” | 1949 | 2.2”
1,601 | -11” | 854 | 19”
1,291 | -36” | 555 | 37”
Conventional Round Nose B.C.* .186
Tried and proven accuracy
*Ballistic Coefficient
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