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<blockquote data-quote="diesel" data-source="post: 352404" data-attributes="member: 6508"><p>Hi everyone I'm new on this forum, I have similar story and it when like this...</p><p> I was on a depredation doe antelope hunt in southern Utah. I'm shooting a 300 WSM with a 168 grn berger bullet. I thought this would be a good test. I am a experience hunter I've kill alot of animals, but this one got me stumped. I found a nice doe antelope beded down out in the hay fields. so I got set up a nice rest off a fence post and waited for her to get up. I range her with a range finder about 195 yards. And easy chip shot so I thougth .As the doe got up I put the cross hair on the high shoulder and squeeze off the shot....Wham the doe went down like hammer of God. I said cool that was easy.</p><p> So I put the gun away, then my friend said hey your doe started to move around. So I look at where I shot the doe. Sure enough her head was up bobble around. I said aah great now I have to shoot it again. I grab my gun to get ready for another shot so watch her for few minute never got up and continue to bobble her head around.</p><p> We decided to walk over to the doe and finish her off... Well my friend grap her ear to pull over to side to see where I shot her, we can see a big blood splash on the high shoulder, in that split second all of suddenly she rejuvenated and jump toward my friend [ scare the crap out of us] and turn around and ran toward the sprinkler pivot pipe line couldn't shoot cause pipe line in the way. By the time it clear away pivot line it was good 300 yards still running full speed straight away . I did get a shot off but miss cause too dumbfounded about whole ordeal. That darn antelope ran about 2 miles before we lost sight of her. Just couldn't believe it. Then it got dark on us. Went look for it on the next day, didn't find it.</p><p> So my friend and I talked about it what went down. We think we had bullet failure..it blew up on impact. Maybe it was too close for that bullet at that speed? </p><p> So I lost my faith in that bullet... very accurate about .05 moa out of my gun, but not a good hunting round.</p><p> I did fill my doe tag with different gun and bullet. but that another story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel, post: 352404, member: 6508"] Hi everyone I'm new on this forum, I have similar story and it when like this... I was on a depredation doe antelope hunt in southern Utah. I'm shooting a 300 WSM with a 168 grn berger bullet. I thought this would be a good test. I am a experience hunter I've kill alot of animals, but this one got me stumped. I found a nice doe antelope beded down out in the hay fields. so I got set up a nice rest off a fence post and waited for her to get up. I range her with a range finder about 195 yards. And easy chip shot so I thougth .As the doe got up I put the cross hair on the high shoulder and squeeze off the shot....Wham the doe went down like hammer of God. I said cool that was easy. So I put the gun away, then my friend said hey your doe started to move around. So I look at where I shot the doe. Sure enough her head was up bobble around. I said aah great now I have to shoot it again. I grab my gun to get ready for another shot so watch her for few minute never got up and continue to bobble her head around. We decided to walk over to the doe and finish her off... Well my friend grap her ear to pull over to side to see where I shot her, we can see a big blood splash on the high shoulder, in that split second all of suddenly she rejuvenated and jump toward my friend [ scare the crap out of us] and turn around and ran toward the sprinkler pivot pipe line couldn't shoot cause pipe line in the way. By the time it clear away pivot line it was good 300 yards still running full speed straight away . I did get a shot off but miss cause too dumbfounded about whole ordeal. That darn antelope ran about 2 miles before we lost sight of her. Just couldn't believe it. Then it got dark on us. Went look for it on the next day, didn't find it. So my friend and I talked about it what went down. We think we had bullet failure..it blew up on impact. Maybe it was too close for that bullet at that speed? So I lost my faith in that bullet... very accurate about .05 moa out of my gun, but not a good hunting round. I did fill my doe tag with different gun and bullet. but that another story. [/QUOTE]
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