11-25-2012, 05:30 PM
JASmith Wrote:Hellcat,
The 90 grain bullet is exciting, and your experience is intriguing. From all that I've seen and read, however, everything came together just right to make that shot as effective as it was. The range is one. The shoulder blade is not particularly thick in the middle is another.
For your next hunting trip, there is wisdom in taking a close look at either the 120gr Ballistic tip and the 129 gr SST factory loads if you don't want to reload. If you are reloading and want an inexpensive light weight bullet for medium game, then look at the Hornady 100 gr Interlock. It may be easy enough of the pocket to allow you to do all your shooting with it.
Alternative but more expensive options are the 100 gr Nosler Partition, the 100 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip, and the 100 gr Barnes TTSX. Of these, these the Ballistic Tip is occasionally reported to come apart too easily but is likely to hang together a lot better than the 90gr TNT. The rest should give you far more reliable performance on medium game.
This is good advice, get the TSX or my personal favorite the Hornady 123 gr Amax for deer. Most of us here can probably head shoot one with a .22 but why risk it when youre shooting one of the beet guns on the market with the right bullet weight. Go with a bigger bullet, but thats just my opiniin.