30-06 for deer and elk: 165 or 180 grain bullets?

[addicted]

let this thread be evidence that we need more hunting seasons to keep us busy.

[BOWHUNTER45]

I forgot that the 100fps difference was the difference between retension and disintegration.

Should be closer to a 200 fps difference between the 150 and 180.

Maybe I was unlucky and shot a deer with titanium ribs, but the 150gr Core-lokt blew apart after hitting that rib on the way in.  I won't use 150gr Core-Lokts in the -06.  I read somewhere that those type of bullets should be limited to around 2800 fps MV..........

Curly ....all my bad information on an 06 has been from a 150 gr core lokt ...including one of my uncles in P.A which I have witnessed blowing shoulders off whities and watching them go like a bad out of h&ll...plus I remember one occasion where I dumped a doe and the others ran to him within 10 ft he shoots the deer flips inside out then gets up and takes off .... I ran up to him to Find pieces of bone literally imbedded in the bark of birch tree ....bleD for about 100 yrds then nothen ...true story BUT I am not sure exactely where he hit it ...I am sure at close range like that he just pulled up saw hair and shot ...Since I dumped mine at about 150 on a dead run with a .243 using a 100 gr bullet......

[high country]

I forgot that the 100fps difference was the difference between retension and disintegration.

Should be closer to a 200 fps difference between the 150 and 180.

Depends on how close to the muzzle you measure velocity.