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<blockquote data-quote="6.5saum/300rum" data-source="post: 2416251" data-attributes="member: 116403"><p>I've had bullet failure one time. I thought it was my shot early in the hunt but after hitting a second bull and finally killing it I believe it was bullet failure. I was on an elk hunt in Nevada. I shot a beautiful 6 point bull in his bed at 514 yards and had a spotter that said I made a perfect shot his head flipped down and his legs kicked one time and I watched him for what I felt like 5 minutes before I got up to walk to him. When I started walking I looked over and spotted him hunched up but by the time I got on him he was gone over the ridge. I tracked him over a mile to the bottom of the ridge and up the other side before I lost blood and his track. </p><p></p><p>Fast forward 6 days later I went in on 3 bedded bulls and they jumped I shot one at 180 yards quartering away from me it hit halfway down his ribs at a perfect angle to his front shoulder and it sounded solid. Went up and no blood or nothing to go off of. So I did my best to track frozen elk tracks on a north facing ridge. Two hours later I jumped the bull and he took off all I had was a shot going away so I took it hit and he turned to my left so I shot again and hit again and he slowed down so I shot him two more times he was 368 yards. He was finally hurt bad and got a little closer and shot him two more times in the neck at about 100 yards. He was still alive when I went up to him. I had cut his throat. I felt so bad when I made it to him but was relieved at the same. He didn't go to waist. After I started butchering I could see that not one of my bullets had penetrated more than about 3 inches even the two that I placed behind the shoulder after he turned. The two in the neck didn't make it in far enough to do any fatal damage. So I was shooting a 7lrm with 180 hunting vlds at 2970 FPS. I probably had a bad box of bullets but I will never shoot Berger's at elk again. I've killed several deer with them since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="6.5saum/300rum, post: 2416251, member: 116403"] I’ve had bullet failure one time. I thought it was my shot early in the hunt but after hitting a second bull and finally killing it I believe it was bullet failure. I was on an elk hunt in Nevada. I shot a beautiful 6 point bull in his bed at 514 yards and had a spotter that said I made a perfect shot his head flipped down and his legs kicked one time and I watched him for what I felt like 5 minutes before I got up to walk to him. When I started walking I looked over and spotted him hunched up but by the time I got on him he was gone over the ridge. I tracked him over a mile to the bottom of the ridge and up the other side before I lost blood and his track. Fast forward 6 days later I went in on 3 bedded bulls and they jumped I shot one at 180 yards quartering away from me it hit halfway down his ribs at a perfect angle to his front shoulder and it sounded solid. Went up and no blood or nothing to go off of. So I did my best to track frozen elk tracks on a north facing ridge. Two hours later I jumped the bull and he took off all I had was a shot going away so I took it hit and he turned to my left so I shot again and hit again and he slowed down so I shot him two more times he was 368 yards. He was finally hurt bad and got a little closer and shot him two more times in the neck at about 100 yards. He was still alive when I went up to him. I had cut his throat. I felt so bad when I made it to him but was relieved at the same. He didn’t go to waist. After I started butchering I could see that not one of my bullets had penetrated more than about 3 inches even the two that I placed behind the shoulder after he turned. The two in the neck didn’t make it in far enough to do any fatal damage. So I was shooting a 7lrm with 180 hunting vlds at 2970 FPS. I probably had a bad box of bullets but I will never shoot Berger’s at elk again. I’ve killed several deer with them since. [/QUOTE]
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