I thought you all might want to see this bullet. I found it on the ground a few days after skinning a black bear I took in Idaho in 2007. I shot the bear at about 50 yards, quartering hard towards me. I shot it in the front right fore leg and then followed the path to the rear left hip. The bullet destroyed everything in between. Front leg hone was busted and the rear hip was also destroyed. The bear died so fast I didn't see it after I recovered from the recoil. The bullet weighs 211.9gr's by my RCBS 10-10. It sheared one petal off on the way through. I didn't find the bullet the same day I skinned and quartered the bear. I actually had to wait for the buzzards to pick over the remains and then I checked back everyday, and eventually I found it lying on the ground. It must have not had enough juice to punch out of the skin, and when I was quartering/skinning in the dark I didn't see it fall, but I could see the mark on the hide.
On the same hunt I shot a bull elk at 100-150 yards, slightly quartering towards me. I put in on the facing front shoulder and the bullet could still be traveling for all I know. The elk died on the spot. Excellent wound channel. This load is a 225gr TSX with 60gr's of RL15, CCI 250, Rem Case at 3.355. I chronoed it with a buddies chrono before I had my own and got 2765FPS from what I remember. I will do it again, but it was also an inch shooter at 100 and just hair more at 200. I never shot it further, but may try, cause I still have about 40 of them still loaded.
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And the Rem M700 CDL VXI 3x9-40mm
Either way, thought you all might like to see the bullet. The bear wasn't a monster either, but probably in the 200-225lb range. Still, bears are pretty dense, and tough, not hard to kill, just tough. Scotty
On the same hunt I shot a bull elk at 100-150 yards, slightly quartering towards me. I put in on the facing front shoulder and the bullet could still be traveling for all I know. The elk died on the spot. Excellent wound channel. This load is a 225gr TSX with 60gr's of RL15, CCI 250, Rem Case at 3.355. I chronoed it with a buddies chrono before I had my own and got 2765FPS from what I remember. I will do it again, but it was also an inch shooter at 100 and just hair more at 200. I never shot it further, but may try, cause I still have about 40 of them still loaded.
Top View
Oblique View
Side View
And the Rem M700 CDL VXI 3x9-40mm
Either way, thought you all might like to see the bullet. The bear wasn't a monster either, but probably in the 200-225lb range. Still, bears are pretty dense, and tough, not hard to kill, just tough. Scotty
If I had the chance to hunt bigger stuff or anything that might like to eat me the 225 TSX or the 225 NPT would be in my .358 Win.
