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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diggler1833" data-source="post: 3908456" data-attributes="member: 48072">What you described is not too uncommon (except for the running distance part) with bullets that are designed to fragment.  It is unfortunate when it happens for sure, and I'm glad you and Dennis found her.I like the SST, just like I like the Nosler BT...they come apart and the core exits, but a significant part of the bullet grenades inside the thoracic cavity.  Blood trails aren't usually going to be as good as a monolithic or even a bonded SP (from my own experience)...but the amount of internal damage is greater.  After a few hundred or more hogs I have developed a preference for bullets that come apart...I usually seem to recover the ones that I shot while they were running away more often when I'm using a bullet that fragments.Fortunately for me, I've yet to have a deer run more than 50 yards (I use the NBT), and that was ONE time when I hit it further back in the lungs & also did liver damage.  That buck made it maybe 60 yards.My only SST deer kill was a front of the lungs doe out of a 6.8 SPC at about 90 yards.  I  recovered it 40 yards later, but like your story had very little blood trail even with the core exiting.  It was luck that I found her because visibility in those greenbriers was down to about 3 yards.  I've probably killed ~125 - 150 hogs with the SST out of the 6.8 and 6.5 Grendel.Either way, we all have our own unique experiences and develop preferences around those.</blockquote>

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