Nosler Outdoor journal

[SJB358]

Pretty neat story this month from Nosler. The 30 cal AB blew through a maple tree and 26 yards beyond the tree it still penetrated the entire chest of a 200lb whitetail! Check it out. Scotty

 

[DrMike]

I saw this story early this morning. There is some integrity in these bullets.

 

[FOTIS]

Pickles!


as my daughter would say! :mrgreen:

 

[JD338]

Pretty amazing if you think about it. That was one nice buck and the recovered 165 gr AB looked perfect.

JD338

 

[SJB358]

The only think I have seen in my hunting has been a piece of oak, about 2" in diameter that was shot with a 348 Winchester back in the 60's I think. It used to hang in our deer camp. The man used his M71 and shot the buck on the run and took part of the tree with it. I guess it smashed the deer FLAT. I imagine a 348 would do that anyhow though. Scotty

 

[DrMike]

Out of boredom, I've certainly shot through cedars with my 356. I know for a fact that a 250 grain Kodiak FN will penetrate over eight inches from 40 yards.

 

[SJB358]

I know the 45-70 (300gr PT) will shoot through a 12" pine. Did it! Again, I wished I was shooting at deer instead of targets, but it was still neat to see the bullet went through that much wood! Scotty

 

[JD338]

The tree huggers are not going to be happy...... :lol:

Back in 1988, maiden voyage for my new M700 Classic 35 Whelen loaded with Remington factory 200 gr PSPCL bullets. I had a big 11 pt follow a doe out of the tag alders. He turned back to the heavy cover and all I had through a hole in the cover was a shot at the base of his neck.
I went over there and there he lay with an entrance wound at the base of his neck about the size of a quarter and no exit wound. It turned out I hit the side of a poplar tree about 15-20 feet in front of the big buck. I was very lucky to tag that deer.

JD338

 

[SJB358]

That is a truely awesome shot. Lucky maybe, but those big bullets really do add a little extra insurance. I don't believe in busting through brush, but I don't think a 243 would have done the same as the Whelen. Scotty

 

[Gm weatherby man]

22 years ago shot through 9" popular at a porcupine and blew him up so bad there was nothing but quills and guts everywhere. That was with a 150 grin seirra bullet from a 303 brittish.

 

[Elkman]

A number of years ago my partner and I were on the Montana, Idaho state line in a patch of Aspen next to a patch of lodgepole. We had been trailing a bleeding bull elk for many hours. It was near the end of the day and just as we started to move a spike bull came out of the lodgepole toward us at about a 80 yards away at a trot. We both pulled up and fired a very closely the same time, the elk stopped and I fired again and the elk dropped in the snow. When we cleaned him we noticed that only 1 bullet had hit the elk, which was a surpise to both of us because we are pretty good shots especially at close range. The next morning when we went back in to pack him out we replayed the shooting sequence and found an Aspen tree about a foot in diameter with two bullet holes in it about 14 inches apart. We had both hit the same Aspen tree. I don't know what the odds are of that but I would bet they are pretty high. We never found the bleeding bull I think he must have went over the hill in to Montana.

 

[SJB358]

Bill, when you say a "number of years ago" I am wondering if I was even a glint in my fathers eyes and if there were still Indians to contend with in the Rockys! Scotty