Totally agree. If I was in the northern climates, where the deer are typically thicker bodied, I would use a hardcast 220 gr. load as well. A big deer in Indiana might go 200 lbs. on the hoof where I hunt, which is mostly National Forest ground. Deer in the Central and Northern end of the state will typically be bigger as a result of the better food source that corn and beans offer.

180 V crown

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I've since made the switch to 200 gr xtp , fairly stout load hope to do a little terminal testing. Will update then.

That V-Crown projectile looks mean and like a textbook example of what a spent bullet should look like.

I'm a big fan of the 200gr XTP and utilized it to great result in full sized handguns.   Have noticed in ballistic testing that the 200gr XTP requires some decent velocity to function optimally. 

Good luck!

Seems like the V-Crown did a fine job.  Saw very similar results when someone shot a deer with a G35 using factory Winchester JHP, deer dropped immediately and bullet stopped just shy of exiting on the other side.   I wouldn't worry about wanting a lot more penetration unless you're after larger animals, whitetails aren't tanks.

I just pick up a box of the Sig V-Crown and hope to shoot it in gel next week.  It sure looks like it did well on the deer.

I shot my deer this year ( 130 lb Doe) with a 180gr XTP loaded to 1200 fps. Broadside shot at 47 yards. Put it right behind her shoulder and had complete penetration and a nice size exit wound. She went about 15 yards and piled up. I could not be happeir with the performance of that load. The gun is a Rock Island FS double stack.

Quote from: 10mmRock on November 27 2018 02:42:23 PM MST
I shot my deer this year ( 130 lb Doe) with a 180gr XTP loaded to 1200 fps. Broadside shot at 47 yards. Put it right behind her shoulder and had complete penetration and a nice size exit wound. She went about 15 yards and piled up. I could not be happeir with the performance of that load. The gun is a Rock Island FS double stack.

Congrats on the harvest.  That's excellent shooting from nearly 50yards away! 

Absolutely a great harvest, I have the RIA FS / HC as well, a great Pistol for the price : )

Took down two deer with Buffalo Bore 180 Grain hollow point this season. Shot placement on the first was abysmal on the first when I jerked the trigger and required a second shot, however the bullet went through several bones without issue. Second deer was right through the boiler room and left a blood trail you couldn't miss to its final resting place 30 yards away. Both shots where approximately 20 yards.

Yep, gota love those 20 yard shots 😀

Underwood 200 XTP for hunting !

I am a fan of WFN Hard cast GC bullets. I did some testing today using wet news print. I was shooting from 50 yards with my model 40 with a KKM 7? barrel and my MechTech carbine. The bullets  are loaded over AA7. I haven?t chronograph this load yet but can tell you it?s not a super hot load by any means. This bullet is from an Accurate mould and sized to .403. I had 24? of news print and water jug behind the water soaked news print.

Both bullets did some serious disruption of the wet news print and punctured the water jug and we?re captured.

Now I have taken a couple deer with this load and all broadside shots never recovered a bullet the boiler Pom on those deer were mush all did a short death dash and fell over. None of the cases were a direct hit in the heart top of the heart in two cases yes but double lung shots. Devastating and the forest floor was painted red. I tested allot of jacketed bullets I would use for SD but not deer or elk.  They look impressive in gel or news print. But not nearly as good as a WFN hard cast

I really love the Underwood 150gr Extreme Hunter loading. In my pistol they are laser accurate and devastating terminal performance. The only downside to the is that they are on the pricey side of things.

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Thanks, I found a couple of boxes of Underwoods 200gr XTP in the safe last night that should work well for our deer opener on Saturday. I do have a few boxes of different weight Lehigh that could work as well