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7MM Rem Mag Bullet Opinion
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<blockquote data-quote="SmokinCrow" data-source="post: 2548518" data-attributes="member: 62139"><p>Well if it's me I want a bullet that won't kill me personally. Also ethics are a personal deal. You don't decide my ethics. Doesn't make you wrong if your ethics are different than mine nor am I wrong because mine are different than yours. What matters is we follow the law. </p><p></p><p>I shot a whitetail at 647 yards with my Rem Mag with the 162 eldx. Dropped like a to. of bricks. As my dad, my friend and I went to retrieve it we saw it get up and start walking away. At 450 yards I laid down put another shot on him and he humped up and went down into a gully. My dad spotted the first shot and it was a good shot and on my second shot based on the blood I was seeing on the deer it was a solid shot. Deer shouldn't have ever got up. Never recovered this deer as there was almost most blood trail. I am not saying that I didn't muff the shots as I very well could have and I'm probably the weak link, but the bullet designed to kill didn't. Based on what I saw and my spotter saw this deer shouldn't have been lost. I saw another antelope walk away and disappear from what appeared to be a solid hit with the 162 eldx as well. Once again could have been a poor shot. But based on what I saw that antelope shouldn't have done what it did. So I struggle to have confidence in the bullet. My dad hasn't had any issues with it but my two experiences either personal or witnessing weren't positive. But once again I can't fully blame bullet as I neither animal was recovered so it could be any number of factors. What I saw could be wrong. I do wonder if I had been using the M instead of the X if my experience would have been different. But just cause something says target doesn't mean it can't reliably kill even if it doesn't kill the way you expect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SmokinCrow, post: 2548518, member: 62139"] Well if it’s me I want a bullet that won’t kill me personally. Also ethics are a personal deal. You don’t decide my ethics. Doesn’t make you wrong if your ethics are different than mine nor am I wrong because mine are different than yours. What matters is we follow the law. I shot a whitetail at 647 yards with my Rem Mag with the 162 eldx. Dropped like a to. of bricks. As my dad, my friend and I went to retrieve it we saw it get up and start walking away. At 450 yards I laid down put another shot on him and he humped up and went down into a gully. My dad spotted the first shot and it was a good shot and on my second shot based on the blood I was seeing on the deer it was a solid shot. Deer shouldn’t have ever got up. Never recovered this deer as there was almost most blood trail. I am not saying that I didn’t muff the shots as I very well could have and I’m probably the weak link, but the bullet designed to kill didn’t. Based on what I saw and my spotter saw this deer shouldn’t have been lost. I saw another antelope walk away and disappear from what appeared to be a solid hit with the 162 eldx as well. Once again could have been a poor shot. But based on what I saw that antelope shouldn’t have done what it did. So I struggle to have confidence in the bullet. My dad hasn’t had any issues with it but my two experiences either personal or witnessing weren’t positive. But once again I can’t fully blame bullet as I neither animal was recovered so it could be any number of factors. What I saw could be wrong. I do wonder if I had been using the M instead of the X if my experience would have been different. But just cause something says target doesn’t mean it can’t reliably kill even if it doesn’t kill the way you expect. [/QUOTE]
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