ORIGINAL: HUNT4ME
I had the same pass thru experience last year on a very nice 8pt.Deer was about 45 yds.out.Standing broad side checking a scrape.Punched him just behind left shoulder in the crease.He took off like a scalded dog.Hit him about 15 min b/4 dark.I went straight to the impact sight.There were 2 egg sized blood spots and a tuft of hair about the same size.Had nickle to dime size blood about every 10 yds.or so.Then after about 75yds of that,nothing.Looked for about 2 hrs.No success.Went back the next morning and found him.He had gone about 250 yards and was piled up under a tangle of laurel.Bullet sized hole on both sides.I had hit him perfectly through both lungs.It was warm the night befor and I lost all ther meat.They group extremely well out of my Omega with 110 grains of t7ff but that deer did not go down like I like them to.I'll give a little on accuracy this year,back to Nosler partitions for me at about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 groups. hunt4me
Hunt4me, Great post on exactly what I am talking about. Thank you. Chap
Lee,
</softly spoken, no anger or frustration, not trying to push your buttons---seeking to inform new shooters>
This is what I am talking about. I have heard of a lots of hits like this, now it is shooter or bullet? I claim it is bullet.I am with Hunt4me, Noslers expand on meat not bone with large exit hole and blood trail and usually boom flop. I will give up pin point accuracy with excellent expansion, passthru and boom flop or great blood trails. I am guessing Lee that your taking shoulder shots, which is oK, if your butching your own deer. I have mine cut up for me at about $80/deer, so a whole shoulder blown apart is not a good thing. Who likes a 2 hour track job at night or finding a nice buck the next day stinking and ruined? Boom flop is so much nicer in the lung area, I am shooting Barnes MZ 300g with BH in my Omega, Nosler 300g in my Knight, I am shooting Barnes 300g Origonals for Elk in my Savage. Reason, terminal performance of the bullet. Even if this happens only 1% of the time, why would you risk it, when you can buy a bullet that will do thejob? Does not make sense to me.
"Accuracy is king,penetration is queen, expanion isprince and shoot thru is princess, all must be present in a bullet for adequate terminal performance."
To me the SST/SW are excellent in Accuracy, good in penetration, very poor in expansion and good in shoot thru. Terminal performance poor is my conclusion, therefore I don't shoot them.
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Best Wishes to you Lee,
Chap