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.270 whitetail bullet shopping again, for the last time.
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<blockquote data-quote="rbTanzan" data-source="post: 1967473" data-attributes="member: 53978"><p>Yes. Exactly. I once shot a hartebeest, frontal, at 300 yards with a 270. (Probably a Nosler partition in those days but I don't remember.) I heard the distinct impact and off the beestie ran. We tracked him 400 yards, the first 375 of which was with no blood. My friend kept asking 'Are you sure you hit him?' "Absolutely, that sound would not have been the tree off to the side." </p><p>Well, at 375 yards through the African forest I saw the first spot of blood and felt good. My friend walked ahead and called back from 25 yards and around a bush "and here he is, stone dead." He asked what happened. I looked and saw the little red hole in the center of the front chest between the two front legs. Perfect. Almost. I said, "It looks like a heart shot." We opened up the animal right there and saw that the bottom third of the heart had been hit. Probably the top third of the heart would have been more shocking. But in any case I learned that an animal can run 400 yards hit in the heart by a decent hunting bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rbTanzan, post: 1967473, member: 53978"] Yes. Exactly. I once shot a hartebeest, frontal, at 300 yards with a 270. (Probably a Nosler partition in those days but I don't remember.) I heard the distinct impact and off the beestie ran. We tracked him 400 yards, the first 375 of which was with no blood. My friend kept asking 'Are you sure you hit him?' "Absolutely, that sound would not have been the tree off to the side." Well, at 375 yards through the African forest I saw the first spot of blood and felt good. My friend walked ahead and called back from 25 yards and around a bush "and here he is, stone dead." He asked what happened. I looked and saw the little red hole in the center of the front chest between the two front legs. Perfect. Almost. I said, "It looks like a heart shot." We opened up the animal right there and saw that the bottom third of the heart had been hit. Probably the top third of the heart would have been more shocking. But in any case I learned that an animal can run 400 yards hit in the heart by a decent hunting bullet. [/QUOTE]
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