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<blockquote data-quote="ATH" data-source="post: 1251909" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>Glad you found it and have an answer. I've lost count of the threads about bullet failure which were probably bad shot placement, but the bullet was blamed because the animal was not recovered.</p><p></p><p>In my mind, you can't blame the bullet if you can't do an autopsy. I've recovered a lot of deer for people that were "hit right" that were in no way hit the way the shooter thought they were.</p><p></p><p>You are in a tough situation. The only way to anchor a deer the way you need it is to definitively break both shoulders. And if the lungs aren't taken out I've seen deer with the front landing gear broken cover more than 50 yards. Would a more frangible bullet have reliably penetrated and broken both shoulders? </p><p></p><p>The range argument is actually reversed here. A deer shot at 400 yards is far less likely to be driven by adrenaline from the report and cover ground under duress. I've actually had much better luck with deer going down quickly at long range than at short range, where the blast kicks in the adrenaline. A few years back I shot a buck in the front at 10 FEET across a ditch with a muzzleloader driving a 325gr FTX at >1800 fps. I would later find the bullet in the back ham, great retention, after having destroyed the heart, both lungs, the liver…pretty much the most destroyed deer insides I've ever seen. It turned and covered about 180 yards before it piled up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ATH, post: 1251909, member: 1656"] Glad you found it and have an answer. I've lost count of the threads about bullet failure which were probably bad shot placement, but the bullet was blamed because the animal was not recovered. In my mind, you can't blame the bullet if you can't do an autopsy. I've recovered a lot of deer for people that were "hit right" that were in no way hit the way the shooter thought they were. You are in a tough situation. The only way to anchor a deer the way you need it is to definitively break both shoulders. And if the lungs aren't taken out I've seen deer with the front landing gear broken cover more than 50 yards. Would a more frangible bullet have reliably penetrated and broken both shoulders? The range argument is actually reversed here. A deer shot at 400 yards is far less likely to be driven by adrenaline from the report and cover ground under duress. I've actually had much better luck with deer going down quickly at long range than at short range, where the blast kicks in the adrenaline. A few years back I shot a buck in the front at 10 FEET across a ditch with a muzzleloader driving a 325gr FTX at >1800 fps. I would later find the bullet in the back ham, great retention, after having destroyed the heart, both lungs, the liver…pretty much the most destroyed deer insides I've ever seen. It turned and covered about 180 yards before it piled up. [/QUOTE]
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