A Real Mess

[Bruce Mc]

I got out this morning to shoot a doe. Of course one of the does must of been coming in because three really nice bucks were trailing her. That kinda delayed my hunt a bit while I watched the bucks. That doe finally walked off with the doe so I went back to the hunt. I had my eye on one doe that did not appear to have a little one with her so I zeroed in on her and took an easy 100 yd shot. DRT. Well now for the mess, I was aiming behind the shoulder for a shot that would crossover and exit back ribs. I pulled off a bit and hit her square in the shoulder and came out last rib. It made the biggest mess you ever saw. Anyone want to venture the caliber and bullet I used. Pardon the gore but I wanted to show the result.

 

[username J]

Yeah that’s a mess…..


But dead is dead

 

[JD338]

Excellent, congratulations.
I'm going to guess a 270 Win 130 gr BT.

JD338

 

[DrMike]

You lost some meat, but there are still quite a few meals for you.

 

[salmonchaser]

Hornady sst?

 

[sako2]

140gn, 270

 

[SJB358]

Not a clue but man does are fragile and can really make a mess with bullets going quick at times.

 

[RL338]

Not a bonded bullet.
Your deer looks very similar to a doe I shots years ago with the 30-378.

 

[NMachine]

25-06 110 Eldx?

 

[PJGunner]

I'm tempted to say leave the 50 BMG at home the next time you hunt.

Seriously though, I've had results like that on deer with the 30-06 and top loaded 150 gr. Sierra Pro-Hunters. Used them for years until I finally got wise and went to heavier weight bullets. I got similar results with 130 gr. bullets in the .270 as well.

I have no idea what bullet you used but many years ago I hunted the northweat corner of the state of California. It was extremely thick cover ans shots were short. Sometimes very short. If you hit a deer and it ran off, the odds of finding it was slim and none. Some of us oaded 170 gr. 30-30 bullets in out 30-06s to and estimate 2400 or so FPS. They left wounds like that but the deer usually went straight down when hit. I don't remember one running more than about 10 or 15 feet after a hit. We figured it was better to lose up to half a deer rather than lose 100 percent of that deer. I was a lot happier when I got to hunt more inland as then I could use regular bullets for my hunting.
Paul B.

 

[Cneelk]

It happens, the good thing it was drt, the animal didn’t suffer or get lost by a poor placed shot causing doubts and sleepless nights. 4 lost burgers on the grill sure beats losing the entire animal.

 

[Bruce Mc]

The 110gr AccuBond from my 257 Roberts was still cooking along at better than 2800 fps when it impacted the shoulder. Best I could tell the bullet fragmented the shoulder and ran along the bone and angled back across the body and exited with a 2" hole on the last two ribs. Not what I planned but it was a DRT. Other than a meal of backstrap tonight all of the meat is going into smoked sausage. A few pounds from that shoulder won't be missed, much.

 

[NYDAN]

Congratulations on making a DRT rather than a long tracking job. Getting 3/4 of a deer is still better than zero deer.

 

[Hunter26]

Exactly like NYDAN said, I'd rather lose some meat than a whole deer. Love that bullet and caliber. That's my go to in the 257 Roberts.

 

[JD338]

The 110 gr AB is impressive in the 257 Roberts. I've only shot coyotes with it but WOW, it crushes them.

JD338

 

[RL338]

The 110gr AccuBond from my 257 Roberts was still cooking along at better than 2800 fps when it impacted the shoulder. Best I could tell the bullet fragmented the shoulder and ran along the bone and angled back across the body and exited with a 2" hole on the last two ribs. Not what I planned but it was a DRT. Other than a meal of backstrap tonight all of the meat is going into smoked sausage. A few pounds from that shoulder won't be missed, much.

Didn’t think that AccuBond would be that destructive at that velocity. I some of those 110s , I wonder if I would have even the ears left if ran out of my 257 Wby

 

[Cneelk]

Yes accubonds can be destructive even at 200 yards with a muzzle velocity of 3250 out of a 6.5-300 weatherby

 

[JD338]

But the tracking job was short.

JD338

 

[DrMike]

The projectile definitely left a divot in the right shoulder. Jim is assuredly correct in his observation that the tracking job was short.

 

[hunter24605]

congratulations. sometimes things don't go as planned. I'd bet all of us has experienced and unplanned rapid disassembly of deer. I once muffed a shot on a small buck and hit him dead in the ham with a 180 core lockt from an -06. it took a perfectly round grapefruit sized chunk from his ham.