dropped one this morning - ohio gun season

[savagebrother]

dropped this nice 6 pointer this morning, for all you guys asking about 200 sst performance here you go. hit him right in the shoulder ball. the bullet entered but did not exit also didn not find it. range was about 65 to 75 yards, deer was quartering to my left. he made it easy for me to hit the shoulder joint square. well he almost went down from the hit then recovered and ran about 60 yards on 3 legs then gently passed with no wild spin out. it was interesting to see him go down as though he was running out of gas. besides destroying the shoulder it exploded the top of both lungs and also cut the aorta and wind pipe to shreads but no damage to the heart. very little blood trail but he did go down in sight.
sb

[pposey]

Congrads looks like it worked well to me

[sw]

Congratulations. I've never had a 200SST failure. That is such a nice rifle!

[savagebrother]

thanks sw, you remember when i had it made at SMI you and rb pretty much talked me into it and i have never looked back.
sb

[jeff]

great job.
Jeff~

[dave d.]

:)nice job terry.

[edge]

Congratulations on the deer and thanks for the story.

I added a bit heavier chain to the goat this year

edge.

[Richard]

Nice shot!...........By the way, how fast or what charge did you have behind that bullet?
Richard

[DBinNY]

Nice going. What did that shoulder look like when you peeled the hide off?

[savagebrother]

richard my load is 73 grains of h322 with a 200 gr. sst or shockwave, blue sabot , and wonder wad. this yields an average of 2900 fps and 2 1/2" at 200 yards.
oh here is a big coyote i shot down in west virginia last week with the same load at 150 yards.
sb

[sw]

Those extra 3" change the nature of the barrel. I'd like a 26-28" 40 on my NEF frame. Wouldn't be as nice as what you have but would be highly satisfactory. I really like your rifle. I've forgotten the barrel/twist(PN 22". ??)?. After appx 5 years, I'm shooting my stock SMI again and enjoy it. 28" 50 Douglas(36" twist), 74g 2015/275BE. Trade?

[savagebrother]

yep i know what you mean sw, nope i think i will keep her for a while i just naturally grab it to go deer hunting and coyote's too. its 28" douglas .45 cal. 1:28 twist barrel.
sb