Hey guys,
Another recovered shockwave, the one on the left.
This one hit a 165 lb buck quartering away. Bullet entered just behind the last rib and was found under the skin on the opposite front shoulder.

As you can see, it looks almost exactly like number two which was a similar shot. From what I can see, the bullets hit, start to deform and at some point tumble. Damage was massive, deer went less than 10 yards.

R
Hank

Another view.

Is that a 220 grain?

If that's the 250 grain it would be interesting to see how much the thing still weighs. Great pics. It sure shows why the bullet is so excellent in the game taking department...

All are 250 grain shockwaves.
The second two retained about 90%.
You can actually see where the little yellow plastic insert indented the lead, especially in the second one, on all three.
R
Hank

This was the subject of bullet number three.
R
Hank

Hank

Nice buck - congratulations. Thanks for the Shockwave pics also.

What was the range for these deer and how much powder are you shooting?

I took a couple of deer this year with the Hornady SST 250gr but didn't recover either bullet. Both shots were complete pass-throughs, one behind the shoulder at50 yardsand the other broke the off-side shoulder on the way out from about 100 yards. Nether left much of a blood trail, which is a problem for me in the extreme thick cover I hunt.

I shot a third deer but never found it due to no blood trail. I love the accuracy of these bullets and your pics of the recovered bullets look great, but I'm wondering if I need to be shooting them fasterto get them toopenmore quickly. This season I used 100 grs of 777 pellets.

I am looking at the Hornady XTPs and Speer Gold Dots, which are hollow point bullets, for 2007.

Caller,
Below is an excerpt from the orignal post.

"Some recovered bullets for you to see. The ones on the left are 250 grain shockwaves. The one on the right is a 295 grain power belt. Both the shockwaves were fromdeer at around 100 yards. The bullet on the extreme left was actually head on, head down feeding. The bullet went in between the shoulder blades, through the spine, through the vitals and came to rest under the skin on a buttcheak. The second shockwave went in just behind the shoulder and came to rest under the skin on the opposite buttcheak on a 180# buck. over 90% weight retention in both, but the spine shot took allot of damage to the front of the bullet. The other was a very nice mushroom. I shoot 110 grains of 777 and it is a great load in my encore. "

The whole thread can be seen at'

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1363090&mpage=1&key==

My guess is that people aren't haveing good blood because they shoot them like a rifle? I shoot M/L like a bow and try to get a good double lung shot. All the recovered bullets were from deer that were either quartering or facing towards me. Bullet had to go almost full lengthwise and stayed in the deer. I have killed 10 deer with these bullets, three were recovered. All gave excellent blood trails, if the shot was made properly.

My personal choice is that I would rather have the improved ballistics beyond 100 yards that the polymer tip offers than the huge damage potential of a hollowpoint.

R
Hank

Really nice pics Hank, I keep seeing all these good
results with the shockwaves. And I like what I see.
They are just so hard to load in my Omega.
But I'm going to take care of that. Would of been
nice to see what the recovered bullets weighed.
Again nice pics & info.
Danny

ahankster

Reading your post you indicate:

I totally agree with you on ballistics - I just looked up the BC of the 250 shockwave it is listed at .210 - the new Spreer Gold Dot 300 grain HP has a BC of .232. There is not doubt that the ballistic tip improves the ballistics and probably performance of the XTP bullet but I am really thinking these new bonded Speers have something to offer. These bullets are suppose to modeled of the Bear Claw Bonded rifle bullets that Spreer had such great success with, trying to compete with partition bullets.

just a thought...