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Berger bullets blowing up?
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<blockquote data-quote="Broz" data-source="post: 574793" data-attributes="member: 7503"><p>Dennis, I am not picking on you. I drew my opinion from this quote from your story about taking this bull. You admitted you made many mistakes, and learned from them. I just don't feel at this point you can blame a bullet for poor placement.</p><p> </p><p>Quote}</p><p>" He was moving fast so I got a quick range on him, dialed my turret in and then let a shot fly. I took another shot and my spotter (dad) told me to raise my yardage a bit yards because the bull was moving away from us further and further. Well I shot a few more times and the bull was defintely hit and was gushing blood. I shot one more time and the bull droped over dead. As I said there was a crowd with us and they all gave a nice cheer once the bull dropped and hi fives were in order. I learned a few things from this experience. One is that in long range shooting you always need a reliable person working the range finder so all the shooter needs to focus on is shooting the animal. Also, there needs to be one person there just to be a spotter and watch the animal through the binos. This would have made the first few shoots more accurate. I also relaized I did not use my angle compensator feature on my rangefinder which messed up my initial yardages and why I shot atleast 2 feet high on the first few shoots. Also, I was in such a hurry that i only had my scope on 6.5 power and not 20 power. I learned that Ireally need to calm down and takes things slower. I am just happy I didnt have to learn this the hard way." {un quote}</p><p> </p><p>Respectfully</p><p> </p><p>Jeff</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Broz, post: 574793, member: 7503"] Dennis, I am not picking on you. I drew my opinion from this quote from your story about taking this bull. You admitted you made many mistakes, and learned from them. I just don't feel at this point you can blame a bullet for poor placement. Quote} " He was moving fast so I got a quick range on him, dialed my turret in and then let a shot fly. I took another shot and my spotter (dad) told me to raise my yardage a bit yards because the bull was moving away from us further and further. Well I shot a few more times and the bull was defintely hit and was gushing blood. I shot one more time and the bull droped over dead. As I said there was a crowd with us and they all gave a nice cheer once the bull dropped and hi fives were in order. I learned a few things from this experience. One is that in long range shooting you always need a reliable person working the range finder so all the shooter needs to focus on is shooting the animal. Also, there needs to be one person there just to be a spotter and watch the animal through the binos. This would have made the first few shoots more accurate. I also relaized I did not use my angle compensator feature on my rangefinder which messed up my initial yardages and why I shot atleast 2 feet high on the first few shoots. Also, I was in such a hurry that i only had my scope on 6.5 power and not 20 power. I learned that Ireally need to calm down and takes things slower. I am just happy I didnt have to learn this the hard way." {un quote} Respectfully Jeff [/QUOTE]
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