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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 3064103" data-attributes="member: 15054">If you are contracted to cull or have deer pets you can kill them with a .22 short and it is legal.Not defending the 50gr but just saying we may not know the whole story.I would not be afraid of using the sst at your velocities..If it was accurate I would try it. But I like to try things for myself.One thing i have done with the 55 V-Max fired from my .223 was keep the neck and head of a deer i harvested during bow season.I then shot it with the 55 gr too see what it would do.I was impressed and began using it on Hogs  and deer and anything else I wanted to kill instantly.The worst bullet I have used was the new sierra palma 155gr.That thing is built tough and just pencils right through. I was hitting them at above 2900fps and NO expansion.Very accurate though and likes to go fast . 3176 FPS in my 30-06 !I use the 155 A-Max in my 30-06 and my .308 now.. the 168 is a good one also in A-Max as is the 178.They all fragment (A-Max) and if you do not like that then do not use them.I like it as it seems like a hand grenade went off inside them.178 retains too much weight and I have shot deer in the shoulder and destroyed the shoulder I hit and passed through and destroyed the other shoulder.Shrapnel also took the heart out in the same shot.That 178 is brutal and I quit using it, only because I like more meat on my deer that I can eat.I was not aiming at the shoulder during that bang flop roll down the hill with the 178 I was aiming at the neck.It was an issue with working a great load at 100 yards and not testing it at 200 yards..I was lucky to get a 12" group at 200 yards.Oddest thing I ever seen.. Kept under 1/2" at 100.Now I test at the distances I will be shooting.Pokinfun that load sounds like a .308 load.</blockquote>

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