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re: My bullet saved me from the worst shot I've made on a deer in 30 years yesterda
Posted on 11/18/12 at 9:44 pm to faxis
Posted on 11/18/12 at 9:44 pm to faxis
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Did you see the other deer I showed pics of a week or so ago
Yep. Impressive.
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It's whitetails. Penetration is over rated. Kill it. Don't knock holes in it. You aren't bow hunting.
My thing is, I'm not overly concerned with putting a deer's dick in the dirt right where he stands. Give me a good mushrooming bullet and a complete pass through so I can find it. It's worked well for a couple hundred years and it continues to work well today. It aint broke so I aint fixing it. That's why you'll never catch me hunting whitetails with something more than a .30-06, which I consider to be boarderline too much for whitetails.
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Posted on 11/18/12 at 9:51 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Yeah I do too. Which is why I always wondered at your hate for the .243 because that's another one where I've never even seen it wound a deer. Every one I've been around dropped in it's tracks.
The things I've seen wound more deer than anything are 30-30's and 30-06 180 gr bullets. I've seen those 180's wound more deer than I've seen them kill. Because a whitetail isn't big enough to effectively slow it down so you just get a little hole through it. Same spot with that 125 and you don't even have to trail it. It's dead.
I think the point I'm trying to make is that with the high velocity rounds, on whitetails, you go from a kill zone the size of a basketball to the size of a small gym bag. I normally take heart or neck shots but every once in awhile you end up in that situation I was in yesterday and you just aren't perfectly set up for the shot. I like the extra margin for error.
The things I've seen wound more deer than anything are 30-30's and 30-06 180 gr bullets. I've seen those 180's wound more deer than I've seen them kill. Because a whitetail isn't big enough to effectively slow it down so you just get a little hole through it. Same spot with that 125 and you don't even have to trail it. It's dead.
I think the point I'm trying to make is that with the high velocity rounds, on whitetails, you go from a kill zone the size of a basketball to the size of a small gym bag. I normally take heart or neck shots but every once in awhile you end up in that situation I was in yesterday and you just aren't perfectly set up for the shot. I like the extra margin for error.
This post was edited on 11/18/12 at 9:59 pm
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