Bull Elk. Berger 195 EOL terminal performance video.

[huntnful]

300 yards. First shot was a perfect double lung. Didn’t want to chance him getting into the timber, so I put another in him when I got the first half decent shot angle. Neither bullet exited. First shot had no shrapnel in offside hide at all.

28 Nosler
195 EOL
3030fps MV

 

[wildwilderness]

Thanks for sharing. I wonder on the first shot if there would have been a good blood trail?

 

[huntnful]

Thanks for sharing. I wonder on the first shot if there would have been a good blood trail?

Non whatsoever dude. It didn’t exit and not a drop of blood on the entrance. Probably would have lost him if he ran into the timber.

 

[WeiserBucks]

That video must be computer generated animation. 88.3% of Rokslide, LRH and MM say you can't kill elk with a Berger, can't be done, it's impossible, they just explode as soon as they touch elk hair and never reach the vital organs.

 

[Cahunter805]

Do you pin drill your Berger’s?

 

[huntnful]

Do you pin drill your Berger’s?

I don’t. I just sort the ones with already open tips into my “hunting” box.

 

[WeiserBucks]

I don’t. I just sort the ones with already open tips into my “hunting” box.

Same here. I always worry that if I drill them, I'd get the drill off center or crooked and they'd up flying like a poorly spiraled football.

 

[Cahunter805]

Same here. I always worry that if I drill them, I'd get the drill off center or crooked and they'd up flying like a poorly spiraled football.

I started drilling them a few seasons ago. Been using Berger’s for a while with great results but just wanted to make sure they were clean. What I have found is sometimes there is jacket/polishing media stuck down in the bottom of the nose cavity. A simple few spins of the drill bit and it’s cleaned out. Not sure it’s even needed but it doesn’t take me very long to do.

 

[Broz]

This is pretty much the same results as we saw with the 195's during the elk cull years. I personally liked how the 180 H VLD worked on elk better.

 

[huntnful]

This is pretty much the same results as we saw with the 195's during the elk cull years. I personally liked how the 180 H VLD worked on elk better.

Thanks for the insight Broz. I killed some animals with the 180 VLD H as well.