I have a small update on the 147.
I was lucky enough to harvest a nice 6x6 bull the other night on a solo hunt at 816 yards. Video link below photos. On my first shot, I thought there was about a 3 mph right to left wind that I dialed for, you can see the grass moving on their hillside, and I had been watching the wind all day and it was pretty consistent about that, but I believe the wind shifted or dropped off somewhat before the shot, and the .5 MOA I had dialed to the right to compensate for the wind was not necessary, and upon inspection the bullet landed about 6" back from where I was aiming, but was still a double lung shot, just the rear side of the lungs. I was able to spot my hit and knew I wanted to put a second one on him. Once I got reloaded and back on him...I admittedly rushed my trigger press and pulled my shot low, I knew as soon as the shot broke. It impacted perfect for windage, and actually went through the muscle of his front right leg just below the brisket. I reloaded again, reacquired him, and made sure to make this one count. I held off for my wind, and squeezed it slow. I watched the bullet impact perfectly on the shoulder, and knew it was a solid hit. I reacquired him on the camera so that if he began to run I could have something to go by to track him, but it proved unnecessary. The bull began to faulter as soon as I got him in the camera frame, and I knew he was going down. He piled up in at the base of a tree. From my first shot to my third was just under 20 seconds.
I was also able to recover a bullet, from my first shot that went through two ribs and lung. It was in the membrane between the rib cage and the hide. Weight after cleaning off protein matter was 84.7 grains. The shoulder hit blew all the way through, interesting because it impacted more muscle and bone matter, but penetrated more than the rear lung hit. There was a large amount of blood shot in the membrane material, more than I have seen on other animals I have shot at similar ranges with this bullet. the membrane was red from the flank to the neck....however the meat was not impacted nearly as severely. Impact velocities were 2,176 fps and delivered 1,545 ft-lbs of energy.
If the bullet performed like this every time....I would not be as concerned. However with the pin holes in the pronghorn on 2 consecutive shots.....It gives me second thought. Anyway, just some more hands on experience with this bullet. We still have two buck pronghorn and one elk (possibly two elk if my niece wants to use my rifle again) left until we are tagged out.
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Was this with the 260AI or the 264WM?
Sorry for the late delay, I have been busy!! It is just a sony cx675 camera, nothing that special. Eventually, I will get something a little nicer.Cody, would like to ask what camera/lens you are using for the video. Thanks.