I posted something up in the ammo subforum and haven't had many people even look at it there so I thought I'd bring it here. I have a Rossi 92 in 357 with a 20" barrel. I put a little 2.5x pistol scope up in front of the receiver and its a great little shooter. I've got federal fusions that shoot decent, federal 158 grain sjsp that shoot recent (and have killed deer for me) and now I have a box of the bb 180 grain and was curious to have some first hand experience, and if not any first hand, maybe some good guesses from more educated people than myself? I'm wondering if the bullet, traveling out of my barrel at 1850-1950 feet per second will deform any at all after hitting bone or just the chest cavity and maybe a few ribs
I think penetration will be just fine, I'm just mainly worried about getting enough energy on target. None of my shots are going to be over 75 yards. I'm just worried the hard cast 180 grainer will just zip thru so fast that not enough energy will be transfered to the chest cavity or the CNS to cause a quick and humane kill on small to medium size whitetail deer. Any help will be appreciated. I am going to do the wet phone book test at some point this weekend to calm my nerve about using them. Anyone with any info that could speak up would be of great help!
I think penetration will be just fine, I'm just mainly worried about getting enough energy on target. None of my shots are going to be over 75 yards. I'm just worried the hard cast 180 grainer will just zip thru so fast that not enough energy will be transfered to the chest cavity or the CNS to cause a quick and humane kill on small to medium size whitetail deer. Any help will be appreciated. I am going to do the wet phone book test at some point this weekend to calm my nerve about using them. Anyone with any info that could speak up would be of great help!
