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Berger 208 LRHT on game
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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 2638167" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>Another pronghorn down, this time my buck tag.</p><p></p><p>I'm hunting an area I have never hunted, or been to for that matter, and only had about 2-3 hours after class, on a public walk in area, so I shot the first buck I came across. My family goes through a lot of meat and I don't buy red meat from the store, so need to fill freezers!</p><p></p><p>Snuck up to 260 yards. Impact velocity was about 2700 fps, knowing what this did on my last high velocity impact, I held tight to the shoulder and low. Impacted where I aimed, exited about 2" back as he was slightly quartered too, with about a 1.5" exit. Buck started to go down, but was able to soak it up and slow run about 25 yards, then stopped and stepped back, then tipped over......perfect! However, the bullet still did the whole rupture and suck some stomach contents out the exit wound.....but was not near as bad. I only lost about 2" around the exit wound hole, and surprisingly the bloodshot was pretty minimal, and it cleaned up nicely. Internals were soupy and completely destroyed. Sorry, no pics of insides, I was in a hurry and by myself, it looked the same as the others though. This bullet is violent in close on small critters, pronghorn or whitetail, etc. Give it an impact velocity of around 2500-2600 or less though, and it really shines, even on small critters. However.....it is a 208 @ 2970 fps, it's a little overkill for pronghorn ha ha! Elk.....now that will be the next test!! I have two elk tags....hoping to get at least one filled with this bullet. May have time to look for a deer, but it doesn't look very likely.....</p><p></p><p>Entrance - [ATTACH=full]401008[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Exit -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]401010[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 2638167, member: 87243"] Another pronghorn down, this time my buck tag. I'm hunting an area I have never hunted, or been to for that matter, and only had about 2-3 hours after class, on a public walk in area, so I shot the first buck I came across. My family goes through a lot of meat and I don't buy red meat from the store, so need to fill freezers! Snuck up to 260 yards. Impact velocity was about 2700 fps, knowing what this did on my last high velocity impact, I held tight to the shoulder and low. Impacted where I aimed, exited about 2" back as he was slightly quartered too, with about a 1.5" exit. Buck started to go down, but was able to soak it up and slow run about 25 yards, then stopped and stepped back, then tipped over......perfect! However, the bullet still did the whole rupture and suck some stomach contents out the exit wound.....but was not near as bad. I only lost about 2" around the exit wound hole, and surprisingly the bloodshot was pretty minimal, and it cleaned up nicely. Internals were soupy and completely destroyed. Sorry, no pics of insides, I was in a hurry and by myself, it looked the same as the others though. This bullet is violent in close on small critters, pronghorn or whitetail, etc. Give it an impact velocity of around 2500-2600 or less though, and it really shines, even on small critters. However.....it is a 208 @ 2970 fps, it's a little overkill for pronghorn ha ha! Elk.....now that will be the next test!! I have two elk tags....hoping to get at least one filled with this bullet. May have time to look for a deer, but it doesn't look very likely..... Entrance - [ATTACH type="full" alt="20221011_182258.jpg"]401008[/ATTACH] Exit - [ATTACH type="full" alt="20221011_184234.jpg"]401010[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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