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125 NBT for deer update
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 326759" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>One undesired reaction on a deer is not enough evidence to stop using a bullet. I have killed well over 100 deer with the same load using a 117 Sierra in a 25-06 and never had a single deer ever get up off the ground and run off until last year. It was a perfect broad side through the front shoulders shot. The deer dropped in it's tracks but jumped up and took off and ran about 40 yards before going down for the count. I have killed some pretty good size bucks with the 125 Nosler BT in a 308 and a 30X47 HBR and have never had a deer take a single step. If you put that bullet into or have it exit a front shoulder they will go down. If you take heart/lung shots and miss the front shoulder bone for the shock effect, deer will run on you about 50% of the time, and it does not matter what caiber or bullet you are using. At least this has been my experience over the past 40 years and well over 200 kills. </p><p>If that 125 BT destroyed the lungs and made it to the off side to lodge under the hide on the buck you shot then it did it's job. The deer was dead but some of them are just tough and can run a ways with that last amount of will to live. </p><p>By the way, I was having deer run off a bit while using the 150 gr bullet and that is the reason that I tried the 125.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 326759, member: 10178"] One undesired reaction on a deer is not enough evidence to stop using a bullet. I have killed well over 100 deer with the same load using a 117 Sierra in a 25-06 and never had a single deer ever get up off the ground and run off until last year. It was a perfect broad side through the front shoulders shot. The deer dropped in it's tracks but jumped up and took off and ran about 40 yards before going down for the count. I have killed some pretty good size bucks with the 125 Nosler BT in a 308 and a 30X47 HBR and have never had a deer take a single step. If you put that bullet into or have it exit a front shoulder they will go down. If you take heart/lung shots and miss the front shoulder bone for the shock effect, deer will run on you about 50% of the time, and it does not matter what caiber or bullet you are using. At least this has been my experience over the past 40 years and well over 200 kills. If that 125 BT destroyed the lungs and made it to the off side to lodge under the hide on the buck you shot then it did it's job. The deer was dead but some of them are just tough and can run a ways with that last amount of will to live. By the way, I was having deer run off a bit while using the 150 gr bullet and that is the reason that I tried the 125. [/QUOTE]
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