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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1251075" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>My guess would be you somehow managed to have a bullet miss the spine and not take out the lungs. Did you see blood coming from the mouth and or nose? Was there a decent blood pool where the deer had been laying?</p><p></p><p>I've had more problems with the Sirocco over expanding than not expanding at all so I doubt that it penciled through. In fact I've never had one pencil through even when passing between the ribs on the entry.</p><p></p><p>I have had them flatten out completely and take off at absolutely crazy angles once they got into the chest cavity with at least two I can think of off hand that made 90deg turns after entering the chest cavity.</p><p></p><p>I shot a big buck two years ago hitting him square in the chest facing me. I was shooting 300wm with 180gr Sirocco and it was just over 300yds so the impact velocity was very close to yours.</p><p></p><p>I swear that when I hit the deer he just stood there bugeyed for probably a minute or two. I knew he was hit right because I could see the impact but he just stood there. </p><p></p><p>Finally he turned sideways giving me a perfect profile and I put a second round in dead centered for his heart.</p><p></p><p>When I opened him up I could see the first bullet had run all the way to his liver and stopped there but was no more than 1/2" tall and as big around as a quarter.</p><p></p><p>The 2nd made a perfect golf ball sized hole through the ribs on the offside and passed on through.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1251075, member: 30902"] My guess would be you somehow managed to have a bullet miss the spine and not take out the lungs. Did you see blood coming from the mouth and or nose? Was there a decent blood pool where the deer had been laying? I've had more problems with the Sirocco over expanding than not expanding at all so I doubt that it penciled through. In fact I've never had one pencil through even when passing between the ribs on the entry. I have had them flatten out completely and take off at absolutely crazy angles once they got into the chest cavity with at least two I can think of off hand that made 90deg turns after entering the chest cavity. I shot a big buck two years ago hitting him square in the chest facing me. I was shooting 300wm with 180gr Sirocco and it was just over 300yds so the impact velocity was very close to yours. I swear that when I hit the deer he just stood there bugeyed for probably a minute or two. I knew he was hit right because I could see the impact but he just stood there. Finally he turned sideways giving me a perfect profile and I put a second round in dead centered for his heart. When I opened him up I could see the first bullet had run all the way to his liver and stopped there but was no more than 1/2" tall and as big around as a quarter. The 2nd made a perfect golf ball sized hole through the ribs on the offside and passed on through. [/QUOTE]
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