While deer hunting this weekend I let one of my friends use my 7mag shooting 140 grain partitions with 68.5 grains of RL-22. We were sitting for about an hour and nothing was moving. I then noticed an opossum feeding on a gut pile about 100 yards from us. I didn't notice the pile before. (the field was a sloppy, snowy, muddy mess). My friend decided he was going to see what the gun would do since he has only shot a 30-06 before. Needless to say it left a big mess. The bullet didn't open up but there was still plenty of damage. We cut it open to take a look afterwards and the chest cavity was just about empty. I believe the heart and lungs sprayed out of the 7mm exit wound. There was a large red mist after the shot and the snow was covered. I was just amazed at what the gun did to it. I wasn't expecting anything like this. I didn't have my camera or we probably would have taken pictures.
I was told that the deer I shot with this gun earlier in the season had the same red mist behind it after the shot. I have only used 30-30s before this year so I thought this was interesting.
Thank you to everyone on here by the way. I got all of my starting information for reloading from this sight and the gun shoots great with this load.
I was told that the deer I shot with this gun earlier in the season had the same red mist behind it after the shot. I have only used 30-30s before this year so I thought this was interesting.
Thank you to everyone on here by the way. I got all of my starting information for reloading from this sight and the gun shoots great with this load.
