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is 360 yards too close for bergers?
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<blockquote data-quote="D.ID" data-source="post: 444137" data-attributes="member: 14340"><p>Howdy, I have bean out of town for the weekend. Thank you to all who responded, I appreciate the input. To those who questioned the target vs hunting bullet, they where in fact the hunting vld in the orange box. I should clarify that the shots to the buck did exit in brutal 2-3" exits and in that case bullet performance was great but shot placement was a dumb idea. He was still moving fast so follow up was direct but in the case of the elk I watched for about 15 minutes before sending the head shot(shot #2) and roughly twenty minutes before I got back with the water and gave her shot#3. I did not dig out the cores from the lungs. By my self that day, when I got the water at the inlaw's place they called the wife and my usual hunting partner and told everyone I was in the draw pulling her out in a blizzard alone ( oh ya, ten minutes after the shot it started coming down) my wife showed up in that pit shortly before dark with a pack frame but no light (and I only had one) so extraction was a bit rushed as was autopsy. Steep rocky faces covered in snow are no fun in the dark. I took three quarters, she took one and couple hundred yards later my partner showed up to take one off my hands. I looked at the head wound and spread the lungs to check penetration but I did not have time to dig them out. I hope it is a fluke as I really love there accuracy and they did perform on the dear although shot placement was waistfull. I guess I will get out the phone books and plywood and do some side by side comparisons with the other bullets before I give up on the VLDs. Thanks again for the input.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D.ID, post: 444137, member: 14340"] Howdy, I have bean out of town for the weekend. Thank you to all who responded, I appreciate the input. To those who questioned the target vs hunting bullet, they where in fact the hunting vld in the orange box. I should clarify that the shots to the buck did exit in brutal 2-3" exits and in that case bullet performance was great but shot placement was a dumb idea. He was still moving fast so follow up was direct but in the case of the elk I watched for about 15 minutes before sending the head shot(shot #2) and roughly twenty minutes before I got back with the water and gave her shot#3. I did not dig out the cores from the lungs. By my self that day, when I got the water at the inlaw's place they called the wife and my usual hunting partner and told everyone I was in the draw pulling her out in a blizzard alone ( oh ya, ten minutes after the shot it started coming down) my wife showed up in that pit shortly before dark with a pack frame but no light (and I only had one) so extraction was a bit rushed as was autopsy. Steep rocky faces covered in snow are no fun in the dark. I took three quarters, she took one and couple hundred yards later my partner showed up to take one off my hands. I looked at the head wound and spread the lungs to check penetration but I did not have time to dig them out. I hope it is a fluke as I really love there accuracy and they did perform on the dear although shot placement was waistfull. I guess I will get out the phone books and plywood and do some side by side comparisons with the other bullets before I give up on the VLDs. Thanks again for the input. [/QUOTE]
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