Anyone tried Winchester Copper Impact Extreme Point?

[VSS]

Pity that the plastic tips aren't blue, to comply with food hygiene guidelines. Blue plastic is easy to spot in meat, red plastic isn't. Same reason that caterers, butchers etc must use blue plasters to cover cuts, and disposable gloves used when handling meat should be blue, and condemned foodstuffs are stained blue.

 

[Hook'N'Bullet]

I think that wanting a lethal round that drops a deer on the spot yet results in absolute minimal meat damage is a bit like wanting a wide, lofty twin-cab pick-up that does 80 mpg. It's a nice thought but very difficult to turn into a reality.

Yeah I agree, its a bit of an oxymoron. Cant have the best of both worlds. "Damaging meat" and disrupting the anatomy of the animal are synonymous with shooting a living a creature. At the end of the day, you're driving a lump of metal through an animal at over twice the speed of sound.

Learn how to high neck shoot if meat damage is that much of a concern (I don't recommend)

 

[GR788]

I have been using the 85gr in .243 for the best part of 6 months. Grouping is alright sun inch at 100m. It’s dropped 5kg muntjac up to 100kg reds. No issues with excessive meat damage or odd NLAisms that other rounds sometimes seem get. It is also £35 a box which is cheaper then a lot of other alternatives on the market.

I’ve also just started using 130gr in .270 which from first reflections looks good (better grouping around half inch) only shot one muntjac so far and it was effective. £45 a box so a bit more expensive but everything else in the caliber is £55-70.

Pain in the arse to find Winchester around Hampshire now though so having to stick up when I find it.

 

[Keith Edmunds]

I have been using the 85gr in .243 for the best part of 6 months. Grouping is alright sun inch at 100m. It’s dropped 5kg muntjac up to 100kg reds. No issues with excessive meat damage or odd NLAisms that other rounds sometimes seem get. It is also £35 a box which is cheaper then a lot of other alternatives on the market.

I’ve also just started using 130gr in .270 which from first reflections looks good (better grouping around half inch) only shot one muntjac so far and it was effective. £45 a box so a bit more expensive but everything else in the caliber is £55-70.

Pain in the arse to find Winchester around Hampshire now though so having to stick up when I find it.

Thanks for info. Prices seem to vary a lot from shop to shop. I need to restock with .308 lead-free and although I've been using Geco Zero to good effect my local shop now has .308 Copper Impact at £35 a box - only a fiver cheaper than the Geco but I might make a switch as the Copper Impact do seem to perform pretty well.