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<blockquote data-quote="Gun5tuff" data-source="post: 57700" data-attributes="member: 3158"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p>[Ding. Ding. We have a winner. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p>Charles, No need to be a smart aleck. In case you didn't read my post, I agreed with the windage issue. I am not going to be taking too many of these long shots and when I do, it's not going to be in a gail force wind. </p><p></p><p>In case you also missed it in my previous post, I also said I was going to load some 165s for larger game. I am not an idiot. I understand ballistics. I also understand matching your load and equipment for your hunting conditions, and to me, the load I am using now is ideal for my current hunting situation. I don't plan on using the 165s for whitetails where I hunt even after I have worked up a load for them. I will only shoot them @ larger game or if I feel I could get a shot of 500+ yards. Not to say I wouldn't take that shot with the 125s if had practiced enough and had made the shot under the same conditions while practicing. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p>OK, Bill Bailey, you're going to shoot a 150 pound Whitetail</p><p> at short to medium range and longer if the wind is kind using 125 grain bullets at just under 4000 ft/second. I'm a beginning hunter interested in obtaining meat for the table. If I hit such a deer at close range, let's say, in the front shoulder, how close to the hole made by your bullet can you eat the meat? </p><p></p><p>What I want to find out from your seemingly considerable experiece is the relationship between low bullet weight-high velocity versus high bullet weight-lower velocity and the amount of usable meat recovered? </p><p></p><p>Thank you.</p><p>Peter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gun5tuff, post: 57700, member: 3158"] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [Ding. Ding. We have a winner. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] Charles, No need to be a smart aleck. In case you didn't read my post, I agreed with the windage issue. I am not going to be taking too many of these long shots and when I do, it's not going to be in a gail force wind. In case you also missed it in my previous post, I also said I was going to load some 165s for larger game. I am not an idiot. I understand ballistics. I also understand matching your load and equipment for your hunting conditions, and to me, the load I am using now is ideal for my current hunting situation. I don't plan on using the 165s for whitetails where I hunt even after I have worked up a load for them. I will only shoot them @ larger game or if I feel I could get a shot of 500+ yards. Not to say I wouldn't take that shot with the 125s if had practiced enough and had made the shot under the same conditions while practicing. [/ QUOTE ] OK, Bill Bailey, you're going to shoot a 150 pound Whitetail at short to medium range and longer if the wind is kind using 125 grain bullets at just under 4000 ft/second. I'm a beginning hunter interested in obtaining meat for the table. If I hit such a deer at close range, let's say, in the front shoulder, how close to the hole made by your bullet can you eat the meat? What I want to find out from your seemingly considerable experiece is the relationship between low bullet weight-high velocity versus high bullet weight-lower velocity and the amount of usable meat recovered? Thank you. Peter [/QUOTE]
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