940 yard bull 6.5 SAUM

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Great shot. Nice bull! Tell us about the bullet performance. Did he run far? What did his internals looks like?
 
Great shooting, congrats and thanks for sharing

Is that a Tikka action ? Barrel ?
Thank you all so much for the good words, this is a great community!
Yes sir it's a tikka action, 25" 8 twist McGowen barrel, zeiss v4 4-16x44.
It's a really nice lightweight set up, the only downside is the saum case is tight in the mag and occasionally won't feed.
I think the 6.5 prc would be better in a tikka mag.
 
Great shot. Nice bull! Tell us about the bullet performance. Did he run far? What did his internals looks like?
So because of the steep angle the bullet passed through the very top of the lungs and didn't do much damage to the internals. The bull dropped instantly because his spine was shattered, unfortunately he required a dispatch shot when I got closer, I really couldn't believe it wasn't an instant kill..
I tried recovering the bullet but the spine was a mess of sharp bone fragments and I gave up digging for it.
I guess one thing I learned is its probably good to hold a little low on upward shots, that way the bullet will travel up through all those vital vs. Passing up through the top.
I planned on using my 7mm on this hunt but I had a scope base issue at the last minute, I would definitely have preferred shooting him with a 180 at that range..
 
Thanks. There is not a lot of data on the bullet. My experience is two whitetail does at 700 yards from a Creemoor. The internals were jello.
 
Congrats all around great job n Trophy, wonderfull pic!!! thks for all yur help n work on the 131grain, 25 cal bullets, bbl.'s n info and all your hard work my CONGRATULATIONS!!!
 
Congrats all around great job n Trophy, wonderfull pic!!! thks for all yur help n work on the 131grain, 25 cal bullets, bbl.'s n info and all your hard work my CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Thank you very much
I think you have me confused with another member though..
I haven't contributed anything about .25 cal bullets
 
So because of the steep angle the bullet passed through the very top of the lungs and didn't do much damage to the internals. The bull dropped instantly because his spine was shattered, unfortunately he required a dispatch shot when I got closer, I really couldn't believe it wasn't an instant kill..
I tried recovering the bullet but the spine was a mess of sharp bone fragments and I gave up digging for it.
I guess one thing I learned is its probably good to hold a little low on upward shots, that way the bullet will travel up through all those vital vs. Passing up through the top.
I planned on using my 7mm on this hunt but I had a scope base issue at the last minute, I would definitely have preferred shooting him with a 180 at that range..
Remember when lining up angled shots to imagine a stright line passing through the animal from entry to exit. Then imagine or pull up a picture of where the vitals are along that line and move it to the appropriate location.

Angles change the equation a great deal because we're used to thinking in terms of straight on or perfect broadside shots which of course is how the target "Shoot this deer here" charts are laid out.
 
Ha thanks man!
I shot this bull in Montana, kinda wished I had my old 28 Nosler for a minute;) How's it shooting for you?

Well, if I didn't make a small error with slightly too long of an action screw for about 75 rounds, It would have been used to kill things this year. Had to do new load works ups since I was chasing my tail with weird groups. All it took was slight pressure on the bolt to make me scratch my head for awhile.
 
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