Bear was 630yds watched him take it perfect mid body through the scope (he was quartering away) and did a somersault at the shot. Went down there and absolutely no blood and never found him in thick oakbrush. Thought it was weird. Then I was guiding and lending my rifle to clients and we shot 3-4 antelope at an average of 200-400 yds and averaged 3-4 shots each goat to put them down. Almost all impacts bullet hole in and out no expansion. Like shooting fmj on coyotes. I quit using the rifle after that. I didn’t have anything with me to open tips up. Went home and almost every tip in those factory loads were closed. They were federal gold medal match. I’m a huge Berger fan and probably have 60 kills with various Berger bullets but those particular loads were a shit show. I switched to handloaded 130 eldm. Rifle was Barret fieldcraft with 18” bbl with a can. Muzzle velocity around 2750fps if I remember right.
