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Old 08-06-2007 | 07:53 PM
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Chap - I'm pretty sure Cascadedad is making fun of the size of the deer. I don't believe they've settled the unwashed truck bet yet......if ya know what I mean
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Old 08-06-2007 | 08:04 PM
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you mean those 1' DIA. clay pigeons he was shooting? I heard a story that he had his wife deep in the woods with a 22-250 and everytime he'd shoot, she'd time the shot just right and she would actually hit those for him. But thats just the rumor i heard[8D]
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Old 08-06-2007 | 09:42 PM
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Chap,
My shot was a slight quartering to shot and I hit a little further back than I wanted. The exit hole actually looked as if three bullets exited perfectly intact, stacked on top of one another. I actually found the blue polymer tip from the bullet in the doe when boning it out that night. This was my first deer with that bullet so I don't have a ton of experience with killing deer with them but I have shot a fair amount of the bullets.
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Old 08-06-2007 | 10:26 PM
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Dang! yeoman, it was the last day of the season and "the devil made me do it" - and know he has not washed the truck yet - but his time will come - I guarantee it....
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Old 08-07-2007 | 08:11 AM
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I have shot completely thru deer at ranges up to 80 yards with a .500 PRB abd 90 grains of DuPont FFg......... Whether your bullet goes completely thru or not depends on how many big bones it encounters inside the deer, NOT on how much powder you put in the gun thing............
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Old 08-07-2007 | 12:25 PM
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My dad recently got Revolution II, and for the life of me, I cant talk him off his 150 Grn. load... Despite 5" groups at 50 Yards...

Ive put everything from 70 to 150 grains down the tube and have only once failed to get complete penetration; My 180 Grn. XTP Shattered a does close sholder and stopped on the inside of the far shoulder...


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Old 08-07-2007 | 12:40 PM
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ORIGINAL: Whitehair

My dad recently got Revolution II, and for the life of me, I cant talk him off his 150 Grn. load... Despite 5" groups at 50 Yards...

Ive put everything from 70 to 150 grains down the tube and have only once failed to get complete penetration; My 180 Grn. XTP Shattered a does close sholder and stopped on the inside of the far shoulder...
I talked to a fellow at a public range one afternoon who was shooting magnum loads and to say the least was having accuracy issues. As we talked,I mentioned that he might get better results if he dropped the powdercharge to 100 grains he advised me, that according to commercials, and TV shows he saw, they shoot 3 pellets best. He then informed me it was a magnum capable rifle. How can you argue logic like that?
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Old 08-07-2007 | 01:07 PM
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Hey, why try something that might waste 15 minutes of his time when he was having success like that?
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Old 08-07-2007 | 01:32 PM
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Cay...Like Ron White says "Modern medicine has a pill or an operation for just about everything, but....You can't fix stupid..."
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Old 08-07-2007 | 06:55 PM
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according to commercials, and TV shows he saw
hahaha...sounds like my former3 pellet shooting buddy. He read in a magazine that penetration was better with 3 pellets. probably an ad selling pellets.

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