Here is a slug I recovered from a small buck I took in 2008. It was a quartering away shot at 65-70 yards. Broke 2-3 ribs on the near side and was lodged in the hide by the offside shoulder. There was no lead left in the jacket and it expanded to .65". No blood trail, but I heard him fall over. He went about 40 yards from where he was shot. I was happy with bullet performance and it is an accurate load in my T3 Lite.
165 gr BT from a 308 recovered from a small buck
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DrMike
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Well, that worked well. No complaints about the performance.
Hammerdown
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- Jul 12, 2009
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We can say, that bullet did the job.
Looks good to me. Dead animal.
Looks good to me. Dead animal.
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Job well done.
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badaxeriverman
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For me, it’s pretty common for the ballistic tips to separate from their lead cores. I shot a couple of pronghorn back around 2000. Loaded up some 125 grain ballistic tips out of my 300 RUM at almost 4000 ft./s. Shot one a couple hundred yards that I literally could see daylight through where I shot it before it hit the ground. About the size of a coffee can hole in and out. To my surprise, the shedded jacket was stuck in the offside hide! The other one I shot probably close to a 1000 yards and that one poked right through the antelope. That one ran about 40 yards in a circle and tipped over. Just poked a small hole in and out at that distance, but it got the job done. That’s back when I thought shooting a far distance was hunting. Now my average shot is probably 45 yards. How times have changed.
