Roe Yesterday

[Deker 3,478]

Just got home to find this from my Game Dealer....

 

"Deer now hanging in cold cabinet. Front end damage - one shoulder a write-off, the other not too bad but also quite a lot of neck damage - maybe a fragmented round. Rest of carcase looks good"

 

Never ceases to amaze me how the SAME round can sometimes pass clean through and you struggle to find the holes and other times it destroys everything...just depends quite what it hits!!!

[dartmoorman 0]

  Deker said:

Just got home to find this from my Game Dealer....

 

"Deer now hanging in cold cabinet. Front end damage - one shoulder a write-off, the other not too bad but also quite a lot of neck damage - maybe a fragmented round. Rest of carcase looks good"

 

Never ceases to amaze me how the SAME round can sometimes pass clean through and you struggle to find the holes and other times it destroys everything...just depends quite what it hits!!!

 

What caliber "Deker" me old lad?

[Deker 3,478]

  dartmoorman said:

  Deker said:

Just got home to find this from my Game Dealer....

 

"Deer now hanging in cold cabinet. Front end damage - one shoulder a write-off, the other not too bad but also quite a lot of neck damage - maybe a fragmented round. Rest of carcase looks good"

 

Never ceases to amaze me how the SAME round can sometimes pass clean through and you struggle to find the holes and other times it destroys everything...just depends quite what it hits!!!

 

What caliber "Deker" me old lad?

 

.243 90g Softpoint.

[Deker 3,478]

I rarely have these conversations with my man but emailed him back last night along the lines of my thread here.....his response...

 

"They all vary but this had the usual half inch, two inch entry/exit wounds but the round also hit the top of the leg (front shoulder) almost taking the foreleg right off so who knows where the bullet bits go!"

 

Please don't all shout...I know it was not my best shot ever, an inch or two out! As a matter of interest this one jumped in the air like it had been electrocuted before hitting the deck like a sack of spuds....(just short of 200 yards)!

 

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

What you want to do mate is use a red filter and get closer .lol.

Can happen with the best placed shots though .A tumble inside can do a hell of a lot of damage .

[harry mac 1]

  Deker said:

Just got home to find this from my Game Dealer....

 

"Deer now hanging in cold cabinet. Front end damage - one shoulder a write-off, the other not too bad but also quite a lot of neck damage - maybe a fragmented round. Rest of carcase looks good"

 

Never ceases to amaze me how the SAME round can sometimes pass clean through and you struggle to find the holes and other times it destroys everything...just depends quite what it hits!!!

I have used 308 for years for most of my stalking and a few years ago tried 150 grn flat nose bullets on the recommendation of a friend. The first deer I shot with them was poked neatly through the ribs and dropped to shot. "Job's a good un", thinks I.

The next one was at about 40 yards, over sticks, completely un hurried and deliberate. Aimed for a heart shot and made the shot. The recoil settled just in time for me to see the deer hobbling off all hunched up like it had been gut shot. Any way I gave it the mandatory length of a cigarette wait before following up and fortunately found the deer within 10 yards of the shot point. When I opened up the deer I found 4 bullet wounds and a broken back leg. The core of the bullet had separated from the jacket and had gone staight through the rib cage and heart. The jacket had turned right once it entered the body cavity and gone through the stomach and exited the stomach wall, it had then re-entered the deer's rear off side leg and come to rest against the femur, breaking it in the process. I used up the rest of that batch of loads for target practice and annual marksmanship tests. Most of that deer proved to be unusable and was definately not one you'd take to the game dealer!

So having said all that, it never ceases to amaze me as well.