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Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics
Bullet failures
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<blockquote data-quote="can1010" data-source="post: 2401574" data-attributes="member: 43193"><p>A friend shot his best buck ever with a 7-08 contender pistol with 140 BT. square on the shoulder destroyed the shoulder but never made it any farther, bone fragments from shoulder blade penetrated hitting the heart and lodging in ribs on off side . that is a rifle bullet failure on a shoulder</p><p></p><p>the only other one was on a moose with 300 win mag 200 AB. first moose 300 yds through both shoulders hitting top of heart found in hide of off side shoulder. perfect DRT.</p><p>second 180 yds straight on same gun same bullet exploded on impact lucky it exploded into heart went 30 yds. only found bullet fragments and we looked</p><p></p><p>two of the three are bullet failures even know all were one and done. i think it is more common than we think and when you skin and butcher enough animals you see some odd things</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="can1010, post: 2401574, member: 43193"] A friend shot his best buck ever with a 7-08 contender pistol with 140 BT. square on the shoulder destroyed the shoulder but never made it any farther, bone fragments from shoulder blade penetrated hitting the heart and lodging in ribs on off side . that is a rifle bullet failure on a shoulder the only other one was on a moose with 300 win mag 200 AB. first moose 300 yds through both shoulders hitting top of heart found in hide of off side shoulder. perfect DRT. second 180 yds straight on same gun same bullet exploded on impact lucky it exploded into heart went 30 yds. only found bullet fragments and we looked two of the three are bullet failures even know all were one and done. i think it is more common than we think and when you skin and butcher enough animals you see some odd things [/QUOTE]
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