BudgetBucks1
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Just thought I would post about my experience yesterday shooting a buck in a thick area yesterday. I have always said that no gun would shoot accurately through brush and evidently I was dead wrong. It was windy yesterday and I didn't hear the buck coming in until he was already through my only shooting lane on that side of the hill. I tried to shoot underneath a finger sized limb and clipped the limb off completely. I saw the limb fall to the ground and I knew that I had missed the buck. The buck trotted 40 yards and stopped, started wobbling and fell over. The entry hole in the buck was exactly where I had aimed. I was shooting a .45 caliber muzzleloader with only 90 grains of powder so it was a low velocity round that clipped that limb off. I am sure if I was shooting a .223 or .243 or something like that it would not have clipped that limb and kept a straight path. The limb was 10 yards from me and the buck was 50 yards so the bullet had 40 yards to travel after the impact of the limb. I am not saying that it would work in every time and I am not advising people to try this but I am sold on the idea that a heavy, slow bullet is definitely better for a thick hunting area than a fast moving high powered round like a264 wm or something like that.