I noticed that as well. Blue striped pillow ticking. Good stuff!
Recovered bullet pixs, lets see em!
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Dang, impressive energy transfer, nice!
.54 cal Hornady Great Plains pushed by 90 gr T7 out of my Rocky Mountain Hawken. 89 yards. Bullet broke ribs on both sides and stopped under the hide on the far side. New bullet for comparison. It only shed a couple grains.
The only other I ever recovered was a .530 round ball that went through heavy shoulder and fragmented severely. A few dozen pass throughs with conicals and round balls.
Believe it or not, with his heart literally blown in half, that buck (aged at 7 1/2 YO by tooth cross section) made it from that field in the background about 40 yards up a steep hillside to the flat spot where he went down. Whitetails never cease to amaze me.
The only other I ever recovered was a .530 round ball that went through heavy shoulder and fragmented severely. A few dozen pass throughs with conicals and round balls.
Believe it or not, with his heart literally blown in half, that buck (aged at 7 1/2 YO by tooth cross section) made it from that field in the background about 40 yards up a steep hillside to the flat spot where he went down. Whitetails never cease to amaze me.
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Good gads, that's impressive
Ditt44
40 Cal
395 ball on left recovered under skin on far side of nice doe. 65 grs 3f at 40 yds,
Heart-lung shot
530 ball recovered from skin under far side shoulder, spike bull elk, 125 grs 2f,
90 yds
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Heart-lung shot
530 ball recovered from skin under far side shoulder, spike bull elk, 125 grs 2f,
90 yds
Holy cow
Nice!
Out here in CA, we have to use lead free balls. So I cast bismuth alloy and they behave just like hardcast lead -- all punch and no expansion. I've recovered only one and it looked exactly the same as when it went in, maybe with a scratch or two. Hardly worth sharing a photo. I just pitched it back into the melting pot.
From the Thor bullets, I recovered one from a buck shot at close range (<10 yards). It was a perfect mushroom, typical of Barnes (who makes the Thor bullet). The other was a longer shot, about 70-80 yards, and it zipped right through with no discernable expansion & I didn't recover that bullet.
From the Thor bullets, I recovered one from a buck shot at close range (<10 yards). It was a perfect mushroom, typical of Barnes (who makes the Thor bullet). The other was a longer shot, about 70-80 yards, and it zipped right through with no discernable expansion & I didn't recover that bullet.
Phil Coffins
69 Cal.
A couple from my collection, and there’s people that still believe they need a slug for deer.
IMG_0759 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr
IMG_0759 by Oliver Sudden, on FlickrOregononeshot
36 Cal.
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.440 60gr fff, she was around 45 yards and she went another 20 or so. She didn’t bleed much at all but both lungs were gone. I could feel the rb through the hide on the other side. After reading your post I went into the garage to find and dig the ball out of the hide. It didn’t flatten to much.
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