260 for cow hunt?

[bigngreen]

Shot my cow elk a couple years ago low through the heaviest shoulder bone with a 140 Berger close range and much higher speeds, I lost just only a few pounds of meat and found the bullet up in her neck on the of side, she took two steps and dropped. We've shot a few animals with the 124 Hammers, they worked, the wound channels we're pretty much the same as we see with the Berger's only with copper so the shank travels farther.

 

[azdesertrat]

yea im not shure but i know on smaller animals like our wt it can ruin allot of meat i just always satayed away from em becals of the problem with bears with expanding early becals of thick layer of fat i hunt bears the most deer is almost always with a bow and so is elk, thats why i got those hammers sounds like the perfect round for bear and will work well on deer and elk provided the opportunity

 

[mike33]

Why is everyone worried about a little meat loss in an 800 lb animal? I want dead, dead in the most deva sting way for it to drop as quick as possible. The meat part is a bonus to me anyway or otherwise I would just go to the market for a lot cheaper.

 

[azdesertrat]

speak for yourself the only red meat we get in my house is what i kill so i take meat loss and meat care verry seriously, as my grampa used to always say "poor pepole got poor ways" i had a few months after a lay off that we had to live on rabits and catfish

 

[mike33]

I understand that very well, but we don't really hunt in todays world with 5k rifles for food vs. starvation.

 

[azdesertrat]

well my set up isnt any where near 5k i buy the best i can afford and squeeze all the accuracy i can get out of it, tikka t3 forest swaped stock for a light and added kydex cheek peice talley bases vortex viper 6.5-20x50 and a harris s sieries bipod and that was a peice at a time as i could afford it but i can get a little under 1/2 moa with the right load (most acurate factory rifle iv ever owned and my baby lol)

 

[mike33]

Good deal!