For some time now I've been shooting the 311-041 with a small HP out of my various 30 cal rifles. 2400 will push this boolit to around 1800 fps in all my rifles before accuracy starts to fall off.
These loads have proven themselves on deer several times.
Last Saturday I was setting by a tree when a two year old deer walks by. It was walking pretty fast and my window was pretty small. It was quartering away when I got the 30-40 krag lined up and touched her off. Boolit landed just in front of the diaphragm on the entrance side and came out just behind the opposite shoulder.
Entrance hole in the ribs showed moderate expansion. Exit hole was 30 cal or thereabouts.
Insides looked like a bomb went off.
At the shot the deer made a few quick steps, approx 10' before stopping all humped up. Trees blocked my view of the shoulder I could only see the hindquarters. What seemed like minutes but was probably only seconds it fell over. It was dead when I got to it.
Ive seen this same performance from Nosler partitions. Abrupt expansion with the nose peeling off and the shank punching right on thru.
While I like a bigger exit hole and have always had them in the past I have a hard time calling this a boolit failure.
Opinions?