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<blockquote data-quote="memtb" data-source="post: 2745825" data-attributes="member: 75451"><p>My first kill with a Barnes ( fall of 1993, I think) 270 gr. from my .375 AI was a full length similar to yours…..from the other direction. Near dark, a small rag horn bull elk was coming up the hill at a slight angle toward us, apparently the late evening air shift went right down the ridge to the elk. He wheeled at ran down hill retracing his path, I made a Texas Heart Shot at about 80 yards.</p><p></p><p> The bullet entered the left ham, about 4 or so inches to the left of the "bullseye" <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" />, shattered the pelvis, traveled forward through the guts, diaphragm, left lung, exited the left foreleg pit (leg pit <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face :thinking:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" data-shortname=":thinking:" />) reentered the upper foreleg missing the upper leg bone and lodged beneath the offside hide. The bullet completed 3 hide penetrations, shattered the pelvis (moderately heavy bone), traveled through the entire elk including the thick upper leg muscle of the foreleg. The recovered bullet broke off one petal and the remaining bullet weighed 257 grains.</p><p></p><p> It was after this bullet performance that Barnes became my only hunting bullet! As Barnes technology progressed, I changed with the times a continued to develop loads with the new bullets! memtb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="memtb, post: 2745825, member: 75451"] My first kill with a Barnes ( fall of 1993, I think) 270 gr. from my .375 AI was a full length similar to yours…..from the other direction. Near dark, a small rag horn bull elk was coming up the hill at a slight angle toward us, apparently the late evening air shift went right down the ridge to the elk. He wheeled at ran down hill retracing his path, I made a Texas Heart Shot at about 80 yards. The bullet entered the left ham, about 4 or so inches to the left of the “bullseye” 😉, shattered the pelvis, traveled forward through the guts, diaphragm, left lung, exited the left foreleg pit (leg pit 🤔) reentered the upper foreleg missing the upper leg bone and lodged beneath the offside hide. The bullet completed 3 hide penetrations, shattered the pelvis (moderately heavy bone), traveled through the entire elk including the thick upper leg muscle of the foreleg. The recovered bullet broke off one petal and the remaining bullet weighed 257 grains. It was after this bullet performance that Barnes became my only hunting bullet! As Barnes technology progressed, I changed with the times a continued to develop loads with the new bullets! memtb [/QUOTE]
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