120 bt recovered

[Michael C. Smith]

Killed my biggest 8 point yesterday afternoon. The deer was about 170 yards quartering to me. Bullet entered on the left side right where the shoulder and chest meet about middle ways. Found the bullet in the hide about 8 in behind the offside shoulder.
The load
Imr 4451 43g
120 ballistic tip
6.5 creedmoor @ around 2900fps at the muzzle.
Deer hit the ground at the shot jumped back up and made it about 30 yards and piled up and never moved. The deer was probably around 160 pounds or so. Bullet weight was 55.1 grain. His insides were like jello.

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[Guy Miner]

Congrats! Well done.

Guy

 

[SJB358]

Congrats on that buck!

Very cool on the bullet recovery as well.. Another Ballistic Tip strikes a buck down.. Hard to argue with their performance!

 

[FOTIS]

That is what they do best!

 

[DrMike]

Great tag! Congratulations. That is a fine buck and a good recovery of the bullet. Indeed, they do work.

 

[NYDAN]

Congratulations. That is a dandy buck. The .264 BT is a great deer killing bullet. I shot somewhere around 20 deer with 120 gr. BT in a 260 Rem. from the Remington XP-100R pistol.

Dan

 

[Michael C. Smith]

Thanks guys! Yes I am very pleased with both the deer and bullet! Going to score the rack this weekend and see what he measures.

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[JD338]

Congratulations on a dandy buck and nice catch on the bullet recovery. The BT is the best deer bullet out there.

JD338

 

[6mm Remington]

Nice job and recovery on the bullet

 

[wvbuckbuster]

Congrats on a nice buck. I use the same bullet in my 6.5x55 and have been well pleased with it. Dan.

 

[Cleveland48]

Congrats! That 120 BT in the 6.5’s is as fine a Deer bullet that’s ever been made.


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[AFG270]

Congratulations! Beautiful buck and nice recovery.

 

[Michael C. Smith]

Guys I had my 2 10 year old boys out there cleaning the deer with me. I had them on bullet patrol. It was like winning the lottery when we found it!!

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[gerry]

Congratulations on your deer he is a beauty. The 6.5 mm 120 gr BT is a favourite in this house as well for deer. I bet your young guys were pretty excited to be helping you with the dressing out. If they haven't hunted with you yet they sure will be wanting to now

 

[Michael C. Smith]

Congratulations on your deer he is a beauty. The 6.5 mm 120 gr BT is a favourite in this house as well for deer. I bet your young guys were pretty excited to be helping you with the dressing out. If they haven't hunted with you yet they sure will be wanting to now

Yes they were. They have hunted with me. They have both killed deer at the age of 9. Both have killed bucks. They are on the hunt for something bigger now! Thank i was proud of the deer and the bullet recovery!

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[gerry]

Congratulations on your deer he is a beauty. The 6.5 mm 120 gr BT is a favourite in this house as well for deer. I bet your young guys were pretty excited to be helping you with the dressing out. If they haven't hunted with you yet they sure will be wanting to now

Yes they were. They have hunted with me. They have both killed deer at the age of 9. Both have killed bucks. They are on the hunt for something bigger now! Thank i was proud of the deer and the bullet recovery!

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Very cool, exciting times in your household for sure

 

[kraky1]

Just curious..... were you able to tell if the bullet hit bone right away on the on side hit? If so I would agree it's great bullet performance.

 

[Michael C. Smith]

Just curious..... were you able to tell if the bullet hit bone right away on the on side hit? If so I would agree it's great bullet performance.

Best I could tell it hit the corner of the shoulder bone on entry. It was at a pretty good angle to me. It did bus a rib on the way out to the hide.

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[1Shot]

I have killed a BLUNCH of deer with the .264 120 BT out of my 6.5x55 as well as many other calibers with BTs. They are great bullets for deer as long as you keep them in the velocity range that they were designed for. You need to keep them below 3000 fps impact velocity. The ideal impact velocity seems from my experience is under 2800 fps. With the 120 .264 and the 125 .308 BT between 2700 and 2200 fps is ideal impact velocity to have the bullet enter the front shoulder destroy the vitals and exit the other shoulder in my experience. By the way the 125 .308 BT is what I use in all my 30 cal. weapons for deer. 308 Win at 3000 fps muzzle, 30x47 at 2850 fps muzzle, T/C Contender pistol 14" barrel 30-30AI 2650 fps muzzle. They just drop deer in their tracks out to a touch over 300 yards so far. Nice buck, enjoy the meat.