(Recently posted this on another site, but this one seemed more appropriate)
On a recent hunting trip, we spotted a good buck, at under 40 yards. My friend took a shot with his 30-caliber loaded with handloaded Nosler Partitions. We saw the buck jump several feet high, and struggle to run off. We tracked it quite a ways, especially for a deer that apparently took one in the boiler room. It sought lower ground, fast, and we caught up to it in a tight canyon. He fired several additional shots to bring it down. (definitely NOT an ideal situation)
When we finally had the deer, and everyone caught their breath, we could do a field analysis.
The first shot had hit its mark, made a 3 inch entrance wound, breaking a couple of ribs, and then... stopped! the wound went no further than the ribs, the vitals behind the wound were untouched. We recovered the bullet (on the left)
Another shot hit the head, above the right eye, penetrated the skin, stopped at the bone, and apparently traveled an inglorious 2" just under the skin (bullet on the right)
Since I have a chrono, I took the remaining rounds of the original 50 and shot four randomly selected. Average = 2,726FPS, SD 26 FPS
There were other hits as you can see, but what do you think happened to the first shot and the head shot?
Anyone else get results like these?
Thanks!
On a recent hunting trip, we spotted a good buck, at under 40 yards. My friend took a shot with his 30-caliber loaded with handloaded Nosler Partitions. We saw the buck jump several feet high, and struggle to run off. We tracked it quite a ways, especially for a deer that apparently took one in the boiler room. It sought lower ground, fast, and we caught up to it in a tight canyon. He fired several additional shots to bring it down. (definitely NOT an ideal situation)
When we finally had the deer, and everyone caught their breath, we could do a field analysis.
The first shot had hit its mark, made a 3 inch entrance wound, breaking a couple of ribs, and then... stopped! the wound went no further than the ribs, the vitals behind the wound were untouched. We recovered the bullet (on the left)
Another shot hit the head, above the right eye, penetrated the skin, stopped at the bone, and apparently traveled an inglorious 2" just under the skin (bullet on the right)
Since I have a chrono, I took the remaining rounds of the original 50 and shot four randomly selected. Average = 2,726FPS, SD 26 FPS
There were other hits as you can see, but what do you think happened to the first shot and the head shot?
Anyone else get results like these?
Thanks!