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Post by esshup on Dec 11, 2010 19:04:13 GMT -5
From a whitetail deer, shot broadside. Impact was at 205 Yds. MV to be checked (was 2175 fps in Oct) 43g of IMR-4759 The bullet was recovered in the far side hide after the deer was skinned. It slipped between the ribs on both sides, clipping one lung and barely exiting the diaphram. Deer was slightly quartering to when I thought it was broadside, and I allowed for more wind than there actually was. Bullet weight now 181g Dia. .810" BT weighs 3.5g.
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Post by zakjak221 on Dec 12, 2010 0:41:20 GMT -5
Ess,
Nice shroom on that bullet. How far did deer go? Any blood? I quit using shockers cause no blood trail.
Mark
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Post by pposey on Dec 12, 2010 8:21:02 GMT -5
made a mush inside and the deer died fast I'd say
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Post by esshup on Dec 12, 2010 9:53:52 GMT -5
I bought 500 of them a while back and have about 100 left. This is the first one that I've recovered from a deer, and they've taken between 30 and 40 deer since I bought them. All the others have been pass thru's, and most of the deer drop at the shot (high shoulder shot). I can count on one hand the number of deer that I've had to follow with this bullet, and most tracks look like someone went thru the woods with a spray can. But, bullet placement is everything, and they won't bleed much if there isn't an exit wound.
The hit was a bit too far back on a slight quartering to shot, clipping the back of the near lung and lodging under the skin about where the diaphram is connected to the deer on the opposite side. The deer walked about 60 Yds with it's mouth open and laid down. After a minute, it put it's head down and I thought I'd give it 10 minutes before I walked up to it. 9 minutes later it struggles to get up, and starts walking directly away, headed off of the property. I took another shot at 265 yds and it staggered a few steps and went down. I have no doubt that it would have died quickly from the first shot, but I needed to keep it on the property. The inside of the deer was like a water baloon filled with blood. There was a blood trail because the deer was drooling blood from the shot.
This is also the furthest that I've had a deer go after being shot with one, and the furthest that I've shot a deer with the Savage. I try not to push them faster than their designed speed, keeping MV under 2300 fps.
I shot another doe a couple of days earlier, putting the bullet too low (about 8"-10" from where aimed and I don't know why). She snowplowed for about 40 Yds and then somehow hobbled another 20. Puddles of blood the whole way. It turns out that the bullet broke foth front legs above the knees, and went thru the very bottom of the brisket. No holes into the chest cavity, but she bled out from having both large arteries in both front legs cut. I can't figure out how she was able to hobble the 20 yds with both front legs broken. Next year I'll be shooting .40 cal Barnes bullets - this gun will be wearing a new barrel.
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Post by zakjak221 on Dec 12, 2010 10:42:51 GMT -5
Good info.,thanks for sharin. Always like to hear how bullets perform. About 4 yrs ago,I lost an 8ptr shot at 40 yds with a 250 gr shocker. Was shootin a T/C Omega at time w/ 110 gr's loose 777. My son had similar performance with his T/C Pro Hunter with two different bucks-one at about 50 yds & another at 30 yds. Again, NO exits but were fortunate enough to have deer run into open field & not the "Snot Thick" brush in another are we hunt. Since then, I went to BO's & Rem's in my Savage & my son shoots 250 XTP's in his Pro Hunter. The 250 XTP's have been devastating for him. He's laid out 6 deer in the last 3 years with NONE of them going over 10 yds after shots. Very Impressive indeed!! Mark
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Post by esshup on Dec 23, 2010 23:32:41 GMT -5
I shot 2 different antlerless deer with that bullet the last evening of the last day of ML season. Both deer were dead so quick that they dropped straight down with their legs folding up under them. The 140# doe was hit at 24 yds. She was looking right at me and I put the bullet in right under where the neck joins the chest. Slightly offset to the left, it made mush of the lungs and one small slice in the heart. I have the guts in a trash can, but my fingers were freezing and I couldn't search for the bullet. I had what I thought was a medium sized doe hang up at 71 Yds and start stamping her foot while staring at me. Same type of shot, but this time I could only see it's head, neck and the left shoulder. I aimed for the neck and connected. Same result, drop straight down, legs folded up underneath and it never moved. It turned out to be a 95# button buck. I never saw the horn bumps. Both deer were shot within 30 minutes of each other.
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Post by ourway77 on Jan 4, 2011 11:14:57 GMT -5
Outstanding Doe and outstanding shot nice exit hole, 70 yards is a VG shot especially on the neck. I bought abot 1000 of those very same bullets a very long time ago the 250 grain yellow blem bullets. I have been shooting them in my Savage smokeless, I see no reason why they are called seconds for the kind of groups they shoot, and the killing power of them. I get a big hole on the pass through when it hits a bone but if not the exit hole is not much bigger than the entry hole. I have shot some and if the shot is high there is no blood trail till about 30 yards. And if darkness sets in as is the case as the Deer don't move till almost dark. I would search for a long time wwith no luck I have returned in the morning early to find the foxes got to the deer first. Hind quarters gone. Darn foxes are protected in Delaware, They are talking about them being allowed to be shot soon. They cater to the Duponts who chase them with hounds and on horse back. Lou
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2011 12:16:09 GMT -5
Where would one find these blems??
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Post by hornet22savage on Jun 10, 2011 10:48:49 GMT -5
I shot a doe two years ago with my slug gun 120 yds. Win Platnium Tip double lung and she still tried to to get away. Took a second shot to put her down. Sometimes they can be very stubberon ever if you get good shot placement.
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