No exit.
Photo 1 is "left"/port side of deer with TINY entry wound visible.
Photo 2 is "right"/starboard side of deer showing nothing.
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No exit.
Photo 1 is "left"/port side of deer with TINY entry wound visible.
Photo 2 is "right"/starboard side of deer showing nothing.
Thanks. I'm committed to perfectly broadside or neck. Hopefully I'll get one of those shots.
I'm sitting in a tree stand now. Using the 62 tsx for as much penetration I can get short of fmj's yet still having expansion.
I would just use whatever one your rifle shoots better/more accurately.
I doubt you'll have to take a shot past 200 yards, and inside that distance there probably won't be much difference for terminal effects. Which is why accuracy would be the deciding factor for me, get a nice heart/neck/head shot and call it a day.
I've seen deer survive a gutshot from a 30-06, so for me it's all about shot placement.
No, the complete lack of a blood trail, not even blood from the wound was the "unimpressed" part. The bullet performed as designed, perfectly.
I shot a buck with a 7mm Mauser (7X57) with a handload of 140 gr. Ballistic Tip a number of years ago.
After the shot the buck took off into a heavily wooded area- he went over 100 yds. after the shot.
The shot was a classic heart/lung hit, the heart was hamburger- yet the buck ran over 100 yds. Tracking the buck in the brush/timber was simple, there was a serious blood trail from the shot to the buck.
The only difference between these two experiences, in terms of terminal performance- was the complete lack of a blood trail with the G.D.
For me, in a hunting scenario, that won't work.
a 160 yard shot with a 64gr gold dot from that short of barrel would put your velocity pretty low, i would think.... considering 64 GD's come out slow anyway.
did you recover the bullet and if so, what is mushroomed?
I did recover bullet.
Performed as designed.
Again- the problem was not with the ammunition- it functioned flawlessly.
The problem in this ONE experience was; zero blood trail and the deer running over 100 yds.- while effectively dead on her feet.
In this sample of one- the .223 was a lousy deer hunting round.
That was my view as well, after the fact.
Well frankly then, use a projectile with a large diameter that will provide the blood trail more often than not. This year, I'm using a bullet 3/4" across. That said, a friend of mine last year shot his deer with a 75gr Gold Dot and he said even his .30-30 had never made a blood trail like that, "Ray Charles could see it" "I was astounded that it could bleed that much! (not his first deer by far)" are some of the things he said. Heart/lung hit.