logo
 

Go Back   HuntingNet.com Forums > Firearms Forum > Black Powder

Black Powder Ask opinions of other hunters on new technology, gear, and the methods of blackpowder hunting.

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 01-19-2009, 08:16 AM   #1
Giant Nontypical
 
falcon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Comanche Co., OK
Posts: 8,884
Default Bullet Failed To Exit, No Blood Trail

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.a...=&#3299024
falcon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2009, 08:47 AM   #2
Boone & Crockett
 
cayugad's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 17,919
Default RE: Bullet Failed To Exit, No Blood Trail

a very interesting post there falcon.
__________________
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, a total wreck, screaming Yahoo, with a big smile on your face."
cayugad is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2009, 09:21 AM   #3
Giant Nontypical
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 6,232
Default RE: Bullet Failed To Exit, No Blood Trail

That's impressive for a 22WMR. I don't know if I would want to shoot a 120 lb animal with it unless I could get a shot into the ear and into the brain. Have you taken many other hogs with this rifle?
__________________
PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE RISING COST IN AMMO PRICES I WILL NO LONGER BE FIRING A WARNING SHOT.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.
I'm not as good as I'm gonna get - but I'm better than I used to be.
"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."
bronko22000 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2009, 10:52 AM   #4
Giant Nontypical
 
falcon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Comanche Co., OK
Posts: 8,884
Default RE: Bullet Failed To Exit, No Blood Trail

Quote:
Have you taken many other hogs with this rifle?

A.22 magnum is not a hog gun by any means. We are limitedto rimfire rifleson that place during small game season: There are a few hunterswho make it work. i limit my .22 magnum shots on hogs to 50 yards and pick my shots very carefully.If that were a 200 pound hog i would not have attempted that shot. Started hunting hogs with the .22 magnum about a year ago and have killed about a dozen hogs with it, most of them under 80 pounds. They were all killed with the CCI 40 grain FMJ bullet.All went down at the shot and some required a secondshot to end their suffering.

None of the hogsthati haveshot with a .22 LR or.22magnum gotaway. I shot a big sow that was looking at me. She was hit just to the left of her right eye with a .22 LR solid point.Almost losther: Chased the blood trail into a thicket and could not find her so i gave up. She was lying on the road bank dead as i was driving out. ino longer hunt hogs with a .22LR.

Usually try and get the bullet in the ear, behind the ear, on a line between the ear and eye, or in theeye.
falcon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2009, 10:55 AM   #5
Boone & Crockett
 
cayugad's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 17,919
Default RE: Bullet Failed To Exit, No Blood Trail

Kind of where we used to shoot them to butcher.. The brain pan as my Dad used to call it. Of course we'd jump the fence with a knife the second they went down to stick them and bleed them out.
__________________
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, a total wreck, screaming Yahoo, with a big smile on your face."
cayugad is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-20-2009, 01:46 AM   #6
Nontypical Buck
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location:
Posts: 3,246
Default RE: Bullet Failed To Exit, No Blood Trail

Great job, great shot placement. Great example of shooting a bullet to match the weight of game and taking it properly with a "bow shot".
Chap
__________________
Chapman Gleason
Purcellville Va
http://www.the-gleasons.com
gleason.chapman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-20-2009, 04:45 AM   #7
Nontypical Buck
 
rafsob's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Hayes, Va.
Posts: 1,325
Default RE: Bullet Failed To Exit, No Blood Trail

I didn't know you could get .22 mag shells in BP???
__________________
Just Another Voice in the Crowd!!!
rafsob is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-20-2009, 03:20 PM   #8
Typical Buck
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 679
Default RE: Bullet Failed To Exit, No Blood Trail

Quote:
ORIGINAL: rafsob

I didn't know you could get .22 mag shells in BP???


now we both know thathe posted in the wrong section
heinz57 is offline   Reply With Quote
 
 
Reply


Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Barnes TEZ Bullet leaves awesome blood trail (Updated With Pictures) LKNCHOPPERS Black Powder 10 03-19-2010 07:42 AM
blood trail NMNHUNTER Bowhunting 10 03-26-2007 03:54 PM
Exit wounds and bullet choice Crittergiter Small Game, Predator and Trapping 4 01-17-2007 06:41 PM
1st blood trail set out and she did it! Raymond van Halm Sporting Dogs 6 11-03-2005 04:28 PM
Best Blood Trail T-23 Bowhunting 28 02-28-2003 08:12 AM

 

All times are GMT -8. The time now is 12:40 PM.