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<blockquote data-quote="Orange Dust" data-source="post: 1250774" data-attributes="member: 92702"><p>Ok Guys, time for some Monday morning quarterbacking. The rifle is a 300RUM loaded with 180gr Swift Sciroccos with a MAX load of Retumbo. It is a 1/2 minute gun. The deer is a doe @405yds. Wind is calm with 10mph gusts. Deer is facing into wind broadside. I set the drop, hold on the point of the shoulder instead of lungs. Thinking will give a little cushion if misjudge wind. Get solid and wait for wind. It lays and I touch it off. Big rifle bumps and bullet hits just as it comes down. Deer must have been wet from swimming bayou because it looked like her front shoulder was hit with a RPG. Deer went down and was laying at the edge of the field with its white belly showing. Watched it for a little bit, it didn't move, so I gathered my stuff up and went to get the 4-wheeler. Drive up to the deer and it rolls over and takes off scooting on its chest with both front legs broke. It makes the 50yds to the bayou through heavy buckbrush flooded 6" deep, and is lost in 10' water. Very seldom have I ever lost a deer, and I have NEVER lost one with both front legs broken. I know the hit was a little far in front, but I'm thinking the bullet didn't expand or at least had a very minimal would channel. What do you guys think? I know if I had made the same shot with my 7 mag and SST's I would have ruined both shoulders and got the deer with the same shot. I now have 0 confidence in this bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orange Dust, post: 1250774, member: 92702"] Ok Guys, time for some Monday morning quarterbacking. The rifle is a 300RUM loaded with 180gr Swift Sciroccos with a MAX load of Retumbo. It is a 1/2 minute gun. The deer is a doe @405yds. Wind is calm with 10mph gusts. Deer is facing into wind broadside. I set the drop, hold on the point of the shoulder instead of lungs. Thinking will give a little cushion if misjudge wind. Get solid and wait for wind. It lays and I touch it off. Big rifle bumps and bullet hits just as it comes down. Deer must have been wet from swimming bayou because it looked like her front shoulder was hit with a RPG. Deer went down and was laying at the edge of the field with its white belly showing. Watched it for a little bit, it didn't move, so I gathered my stuff up and went to get the 4-wheeler. Drive up to the deer and it rolls over and takes off scooting on its chest with both front legs broke. It makes the 50yds to the bayou through heavy buckbrush flooded 6" deep, and is lost in 10' water. Very seldom have I ever lost a deer, and I have NEVER lost one with both front legs broken. I know the hit was a little far in front, but I'm thinking the bullet didn't expand or at least had a very minimal would channel. What do you guys think? I know if I had made the same shot with my 7 mag and SST's I would have ruined both shoulders and got the deer with the same shot. I now have 0 confidence in this bullet. [/QUOTE]
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