Mr. Stevenson
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There's your problem. Why do people purposely take neck shots? The only "kill" shot is the spine at the back of the neck. Sure, there are large veins and arteries in there too, but with a whole lot of largely non-vital meat in between. Shoot the thing in the lungs / heart and it may not drop in its tracks, but it's dead every time....I put two through the neck of an antelope at under 200 yards and it hardly phased it...
That was extremely interesting. Last year at 500 yards I put a 140 ELD-M through the chest of a coyote and it ran 300 yards. Seven or eight minutes later after walking out to it I had to shoot it in the head with a 22 pistol. Maybe a coyote just didn't have enough resistance to open it up. I am taking a grandson bear hunting, and will carry a Creedmoor if lucky enough to run across a wolf. So now it's Hornady or Berger VLD. Decisions decisions.
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There's your problem. Why do people purposely take neck shots?
It could have been, but that experience was enough for me to switch bullets.
It could have been, but that experience was enough for me to switch bullets.
If I were a betting man I'd bet you could shoot them for the rest of your life and never have that happen again.
Nevertheless, somebody has to support the other bullet makers too.
I haven't had many go 200 yards.
The majority go about 20-30 and then do a face plant.
I've had a couple "boom flops" as well. Not a whole bunch, but a few. The one that stands out is a mule deer buck at about 80 yards. I shot him with a 80 gr TTSX moving 3000 at the muzzle out of a 243 (yes, it didn't bounce off. weird I know....). Hit him smack in the shoulder and he dropped like I hit him over the head with sledge hammer. All he did was lay there in a heap and do the "dying rear leg pump" for about 3 or 4 seconds.