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Kortsman
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There's no game in UHills. You might as well send that permit back in and get a point for it. Apply for some other place that has deer... :innocent

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Iluv2hunt
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Good luck with the powerbelts. Some people love them, some hate them..I am the latter. I lost more game with those bullets than all other weapons combined. I wanted to shoot the Barnes in mine, but they wouldn't group at all in either of my guns. So I settled on the shockwaves for now

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TimE1
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Key to them is keeping them clean(and dry)

I shoot (2) 777 pellets and a 250gr T/C Shockwave in both my guns

I shoot the same combo out of my wolf and it is a tack driver, great gun for the price

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TerribleTed
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Good luck with the powerbelts. Some people love them, some hate them..I am the latter. I lost more game with those bullets than all other weapons combined. I wanted to shoot the Barnes in mine, but they wouldn't group at all in either of my guns. So I settled on the shockwaves for now

I bet that was with the ballistic tip.

I used them one year usually i only use the hollow point knocked deer and hogs off there feet. The ballistic tipped ones passed right thru without opening- mushrooming.

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Iluv2hunt
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Yeah Ted,
Most of them were the Aero tips. However a couple were the 245gr hollow points. I have heard people shooting the 295s have better luck, but they didn't want to group too well for me.
Plus, I had sorta washed my hands with them after watching animals get up and run off w/o a drop of blood

Heck, I lost a deer and a hog out of the same tree in the same weekend. I can~called the buck in, a nice 6 point. I hit can call three times and he came in running tearing bushes down, grunting every breath and had his top lip curled up in the air
I knocked him off his feet at 22 yards. He got up and ran like he was never hit. not a drop of blood. I found him the following spring squirrel hunting approx 1/2 mile down the hammock

The hog I shot laid there stone dead. I actually started climbing down. He got up, took off never to be seen again. I found one drop of blood about 400 yards from where I shot him

I gave away every PB I owned after that and went to shockwaves after that. Haven't lost an animal since. They do fragment on a solid bone hit though
I killed three hogs last year. One ran 30 yards, with a blood trail Ray Charles could follow. The other 2 I killed with one shot

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